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Emmett Till’s Accuser Admits She Lied About Claims That Led To His Murder – Lilly Workneh / Huff Post
The woman who accused 14-year-old Emmet Till of flirting with her in 1955 revealed for the first time that those claims were fabricated. Vanity Fair reports…
The vast diversity of the Women’s March on Washington, in words and photos – Karen Turner, Kainaz Amaria and Nesima Aberra / Vox
Columbia University Reveals Details Of Its Ties With Slavery – Rebecca Hersher / NPR
In 1755, the board of governors of a new college was sworn into office in Manhattan. King’s College, as it was called, was not far…
Trump’s unconstitutional plan to turn cities into federal police states – Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress
Heroes of a Civil War Victory That History Forgot – The Atlantic
On the morning of September 29, 1864, as dawn broke over eastern Virginia, some 7001 black soldiers in the 4th and 6th regiments of the…
What Would Malcolm X Say About ‘Negro’ Celebrities Meeting with Trump? David Love / Atl Black Star
What would Malcolm X have to say about the Black celebrities meeting with Trump? There is no need to guess because the Black nationalist leader…
Inside Donald Trump’s Extremist Education Agenda – Jeff Bryant / AlterNet
What happens now to Justice Dept.’s civil rights enforcement? Joe Davidson / Wash Post
Alabama found guilty of racial gerrymandering – Alice Miranda Ollstein / ThinkProgress
Who Decides Who Counts as Native American? – Brooke Jarvis / NYT
Is God a White Supremacist?’: Religion class at elite college tackles ‘transnational whiteness’ – Dave Urbanski / The Blaze
Cops’ Feelings on Race Show How Far We Have to Go – Nathalie Baptiste / Mother Jones
This week, the Pew Research Center released a report entitled “Behind the Badge,” a comprehensive survey of nearly 8,000 law enforcement officials across the United…
How Mass Incarceration Pushes Black Children Further Behind in School – Melinda D. Anderson / The Atlantic
In the summer of 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the closing remarks at the March on Washington. More than 200,000 people gathered to cast…
Milton Friedman, Betsy DeVos, and the Privatization of Public Education – Joanne Barkan / Dissent
The hidden reason Republicans are so eager to repeal Obamacare – Matthew Yglesias / Vox
White America is quietly self-segregating – Alvin Chang / Vox
The dangerous myth of the ‘missing black father’ – Mychal Denzel Smith / Wash Post
How The Systemic Segregation Of Schools Is Maintained By ‘Individual Choices’ – Nicole Hannah-Jones / NPR
Sixty-three years after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, many schools across the country either remain segregated or have re-segregated. Journalist…
Obama names 3 new national civil rights monuments, expands 2 others – Meteor Blades / Daily Kos
U.S. government has ‘dismally failed’ to educate Native American children, lawsuit alleges – Emma Brown / Wash Post
Report: Chicago police use excessive force and often treat people “as animals or subhuman” – German Lopez / Vox
Albert Woodfox was in isolation longer than any other American – Rachel Aviv / The New Yorker
‘What Happened To You, Dylann?’ Victim’s Friend Asks Roof At Sentencing – Rebecca Hersher / NPR
Civil Rights Groups Hail Appeals Court Ruling in Case Challenging Exclusion of Dark-Skinned Juror – Joel Stashenko / New York Law Journal
ALBANY – Excluding a juror based on skin tone, like race, is prohibited under the New York Constitution, the state’s highest court has ruled in…
In Alabama, federal intervention protects minority rights – The Editorial Board / Wash Post
A LITTLE OVER a year ago, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) announced he would close dozens of driver’s license offices — many in poor and minority…
Read Deval Patrick’s Scathing Indictment Against Jeff Sessions for Attorney General – Inae Oh / Mother Jones
