National News
Who Owns The Past? For Native Americans, Reclaiming Family Heirlooms Is a Tricky Business – Alexandra Rosenmann / AlterNet
Black parents take their kids to school on how to deal with police – Janell Ross / Wash Post
Tracking the explosion of hate in Trump’s America since Election Day – Adam Peck / ThinkProgress
On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump was elected president. Within hours, the United States was awash in an unprecedented wave of hateful incidents, many of…
March remembers the nearly 800 victims of Chicago’s gun violence in 2016 – CBS News
The Industry Where Black Women Earn 42 Cents for Every Dollar Earned by a White Man – Michelle Chen / The Nation
The genomic revolution has led to easy sequencing and cheap “ancestry” tests. White nationalists are paying attention – Sarah Zhang / The Atlantic
Tyrus Wong, ‘Bambi’ Artist Thwarted by Racial Bias, Dies at 106 – Margalit Fox / NYT
13 Times Latinos Filled Us With Hope And Pride In 2016 – Carolina Moreno and Tanisha Love Ramirez / Huff Post
What’s a little DNA between us? How DNA test could lead to racial understanding – Susan Svrluga / Wash Post
Anita Foeman’s students had just gotten the results from their genetic tests, and they couldn’t wait to talk. One said her dad cheered when she…
For the first time, Native American tribes will offer management input for a national monument – Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis / Wash Post
NAACP pushes for national economic boycott of North Carolina – Alice Miranda Ollstein / ThinkProgress
The Housing Crisis Lives On for Minorities – The Editorial Board / NYT
Wisconsin Republicans Want “Problem of Whiteness” Class Cancelled, Professor Fired – Osigta Nwanevu / Slate
Video Breaks Down How ‘Whiteness’ As A Construct Shaped The Election – Carolina Moreno / Huff Post
For Americans to fully understand the current racial divide in the United States, citizens need to delve deep into how “whiteness” has been constructed and…
Visiting the African-American Museum: Waiting, Reading, Thinking, Connecting, Feeling – Wesley Morris / NYT
I’m going to level with you. Getting inside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is hard. “Advanced timed passes for April…
Bill O’Reilly embraces white nationalism – Aaron Ruper / Thinkprogress
Inside the Ku Klux Klan, With an A&E Documentary Series – Kathryn Shattuck / NYT
Watch an Amazing Talk by an African American Astrophysicist – Dr. Jedidah Isler / Ted Talks
Jedidah Isler dreamt of becoming an astrophysicist since she was a young girl, but the odds were against her: At that time, only 18 black…
Insurance Policies on Slaves: New York life’s Complicated Past – Rachel L. Swarns / NYT
In Case You Forgot, This Is What The North’s Fight For Civil Rights Looked Like – Katherine Brooks / Huff Post
To some, the fight for civil rights in America is an important, but distant, memory. According to history books, the struggle to end racial segregation…
In the Wake of Trump, a Black-Student Groundswell – Grace Dolan-Sandrino and Zahri Jackson / The Nation
In the fight for racial justice on campus, 2016 stands in the shadow of 2015. Last November, black students took American higher education by storm—raining…
Texas campus tense with incidents since Donald Trump election – Rick Jervis / USA Today
Black And White Americans View Historical Events Very Differently – Erin Schumaker / Huff Post
Abraham Lincoln Defended a Man Who Refused To Be Called ‘Negro’ – Ava Gabrielle / Huff Post
Unequal Sentences for Blacks and Whites – The Editorial Board / NYT
The Charleston Story: A Knotted Mix Of Race, Grace And Injustice – Gene Demby / NPR
Faith and race play big roles in the history of Charleston. In the stories the city tells itself about itself, Charleston joyfully celebrates the former,…
How Michelle Obama became a singular American voice – Peter Slevin / Wash Post
Three weeks after Inauguration Day in 2009 and still a long way from crafting an agenda, Michelle Obama climbed into her motorcade and paid a…