National News
Is This How Discrimination Ends? – Jessica Nordell / The Atlantic
Wisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won by 22,748) – Ari Berman / The Nation
Trump Administration Cites Segregation-Era Ruling To Defend Its Travel Ban – Julia Craven / Huff Post
In New Orleans, Racism’s History Is Harder Than Stone – Michael Tisserand / NYT
Asian-Americans Have Highest Poverty Rate In NYC, But Stereotypes Make The Issue Invisible – Kimberly Yam / Huff Post
A Call to Faith-Based Communities to Bring Dignity and Integrity to our Criminal Justice System – Jacqui Lewis / Bill Moyers
Colgate’s Black Students ‘Angry, Sad, Confused’ In Aftermath of Racial Profiling Incident – Kiersten Willis / Atla Black Star
Jackson, Mississippi, Just Nominated Radical Activist Chokwe Antar Lumumba to Be the Next Mayor – John Nichols / The Nation
A string of attacks on black women reminds us that racism is impossible to quantify – Colbert I. King / Wash Post
What Does It Take to Convict a Cop? Michael Sakolove / Mother Jones
American policing is broken. Here’s how to fix it. – German Lopez / Vox
Police story about why they gunned down an unarmed black ninth grader falls apart – E.A. Crunden / ThinkProgress
The Danger of Trump’s Civil War Ignorance – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
More Parents Of Color Think Racism Is Holding Back Their Children In School – Rebecca Klein / Huff Post
Prospects for black America about to get worse under Trump, report says – Tracy Jan / Wash Post
The Collapse of American Identity – Robert P. Jones / NYT
This Year’s May Day Protests Aren’t Just About Labor – Brandon E. Patterson / Mother Jones
A federal judge is letting an Alabama school district return to segregation – Matthew Roza / Salon
Ben Carson Is Proving to Be the Bizarre and Incompetent Secretary of Housing and Urban Development We Expected Him to Be – Alex Kotch / Alternet
The president’s racial demagoguery makes it easier for the GOP to sell tax giveaways to the wealthy. – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
Black People Are Not All ‘Living in Hell’ – Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery – Anna Maria Barry-Jester / FiveThirtyEight
How Does Race Affect a Student’s Math Education? – Melinda D. Anderson / The Atlantic
The L.A. riots: ‘It’s important to remember what started it’ – Angel Jennings and Matt Hamilton / LA Times
Only 5 percent of Senate staffers are black. Congress needs the ‘Rooney Rule.’ – Don Bell / Wash Post
The Urgency of Ethnic Nationalism – David Leonhardt / NYT
