National News
How Puerto Rico Is Becoming Trump’s Katrina – Tom Dickinson / Rolling Stone
This Student Band That Kneeled to Play the Anthem Understands Racial Injustice Better Than Trump – Jackie Mogensen / Mother Jones
The Mounting Attack on Organized Labor and What it Means for African-Americans – D. Amari Jackson / Atl Black Star
After White Supremacists Marched Through Campus, UVA Grapples With Change – Andy Campbell et al / Cavalier Daly
When Black Children Are Targeted for Punishment – Derrick Darby and John L. Rury / NYT
Trump’s Attack On Black Athletes May Bring a League to Its Feet – Robert Silverman / The Daily Beast
The Caribbean, the U.S., and how their past and present are intertwined – Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
America Has Never Truly Atoned For Slavery. John Conyers Has Pressed the Issue for Nearly 30 Years – Brandon Ellington Patterson / Mother Jones
Flint Had a Lead Crisis in Its Water. Now It Has a Fertility Crisis – Edwin Rios / Mother Jones
The Myth of Robert E. Lee And The “Good” Slave Owner – Glenn David Brasher / The Daily Beast
The African American Museum a year later: Still the hottest ticket in town – Phillip Kennicott / Wash Post
‘The American War’: Why you need to understand American racism to understand what happened in Vietnam – Alyssa Rosenberg / Wash Post
Stone Mountain: The ugly past and fraught future of the biggest Confederate monument – Steve Hendrix / Wash Post
The Racial Demagoguery of Trump’s Assaults on Colin Kaepernick and Steph Curry – David Remnick / The New Yorker
He allegedly murdered 2 black men. Police found an Adolf Hitler speech in his home – German Lopez / Vox
White people are really confident that things are getting better for black people – Tracy Jan / Wash Post
How America can respond to the ‘whitelash’ – Sam Fulwood III / ThinkProgress
The Question of Race in Campus Sexual-Assault Cases – Emily Yoffe / The Atlantic
This Judge’s Excuses for Acquitting Jason Stockley of Murder Are Pathetic – Jeremy Stahl / Slate
How the FBI smashed white supremacist group The Order – Robert Jimison / CNN
Triple Consciousness: To be Black and an Immigrant in America – Atima Omara / Salon
Erect a Statue of This Civil Rights Hero – Carl Elliott / NYT
Asians Are Still Tokenized Or Just Missing From TV Shows, Report Says – Kimberly Yam – HuffPost
Most Americans Oppose White Supremacists, But Many Share Their Views : Poll – Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost
Sports is a hub for protests against racism. ESPN shouldn’t silence Jemele Hill – Dave Zirin / Wash Post
White supremacists have been marching in President Trump’s name. Literally – David Nelwert / Wash Post
