National News
Betsy DeVos All Smiles as She Endorses States’ Rights to Discriminate Against Children – Christina Cauterucci / Slate
Not All Indicators Are Bad: Interracial Marriage at All-Time High – Keli Goff /The Daily Beast
Mississippi Accused Of Unequal Schooling For Black Students – Jeff Amy / TPM News
Want to See How School Choice Leads to Segregation? Visit Betsy DeVos’ Hometown – Jennifer Berkshire / Have You Heard via Alternet
How Abraham Lincoln Found His Anti-Slavery Voice – Sidney Blumenthal / Newsweek via Alternet
Closing Rikers Island: A Step Beyond Prison Reform – Rob Bryan / Dissent
A new memoir by Trayvon Martin’s parents lays bare the emotional costs of watching your child’s murder catalyze a social movement – Minkah Makalani / Slate
Mitch Landrieu (The Mayor of New Orleans) Reminds Us That Eloquence Still Exists – Frank Bruni / NYT
Felony charges against inauguration protesters represent ‘historic crossroads’ – Mark Hand / ThinkProgress
Michelle Alexander: We Must Respond Forcefully & Challenge Jeff Sessions’s New War on Drugs / Democracy Now
Celebrating, and mourning, two beacons in the quest for racial equality – Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Senate Moves Forward With Bipartisan Bill to Rein in Jeff Sessions – Tana Ganeva / Rolling Stone
White Tulsa Officer Is Acquitted in Fatal Shooting of Black Driver – Lucia Walinchus and Richard Perez-Pena / NYT
Richard Rothstein speaks With Ta-Nehisi Coates About Forgotten History of Residential Segregation / Slate
America Needs a New Poor People’s Campaign – Rev. Dr. William J. Barber / CommonDreams
12 Features of White Working-Class Trump Voters Confirm Depressed and Traumatized Multitudes Voted for Him – Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
Philadelphia just set the national example in the fight against mass incarceration – German Lopez / Vox
North Carolina’s “Monster” Voter Supression Law Is Dead – Mark Joseph Stern / Slate
Lessons On Race And Vouchers From Milwaukee – Claudio Sanchez / NPR
Philadelphia sues Wells Fargo for allegedly discriminating against minority borrowers – Jonnelle Marte / Wash Post
Racial And Ethnic Disparities Persist In Sudden Infant Deaths – Katherine Hobson / NPR
Donald Trump’s Catastrophic Presidency Offers More Proof That Racism and Sexism Are Destroying America – Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Republicans plan massive cuts to programs for the poor – Richard Bade and Sarah Ferris / Politico
‘Mama’s Bail Out Day’ Brings Black Moms Home From Jail for Mother’s Day – Sherri Williams / NBC
Trump’s voter fraud commission is a shameless white power grab – Stephen W. Thrasher / The Guardian
White Racism in America’s Police Departments Is So Much Worse Than Most Americans Understand – Jeff Pegues / Alternet
