National News
A Region That Sees Racism as a Threat to Its Economy – Alexia Fernandez Campbell / The Atlantic
American Indians Killed by Cops at Highest Rate in the Nation, but They’re Invisible in the Media – Meteor Blades / Daily Kos via AlterNet
We Can’t Stop Looking at These Unforgettable Images of the Black Panthers – Mark Murrmann / Mother Jones
For the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, two exceptional new books take on the legacy and history of one of the most powerful…
How America’s Past Shapes Native Americans’ Present – Alexia Fernandez Campbell / The Atlantic
White armed occupiers were acquitted. Native American activists were tear gassed – Laurel Raymond / ThinkProgress
A majority of Donald Trump supporters think everything has been terrible since the 1950s – Matthew Roza / Salon
Booked: When Slaveholders Controlled the Government, with Matthew Karp – Timothy Shenk / Dissent
The age of Trump largely exists because of a resurgent white racial identity – Eric D. Knowles and Linda R. Tropp / The New Republic
Many political commentators credit Donald Trump’s rise to white voters’ antipathy toward racial and ethnic minorities. However, we believe this focus on racial resentment obscures…
Segregation Begins in Pre-K – Michelle Chen / The Nation
Red Lines, Black Lives – How Housing Discrimination Created Inequality – Colin Gordon / Dissent
When Ta-Nehisi Coates’s made his influential “Case for Reparations” in the pages of the Atlantic in 2014, his focus, perhaps surprisingly, was not on slavery….
Indiana officials are trying to block almost 45,000 black citizens from voting – Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress
Harvard university has the largest endowment in the United States, but workers said they couldn’t pay basic living expenses – Emily Deruy / The Atlantic
In one corner of the law, minorities and women are often valued less – Kim Soffen / Wash Post
Donald Trump’s new Confederacy: At Gettysburg, he tried to evoke Lincoln’s address but ended reprising Pickett’s Charge – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Nat Turner – American Hero or Terrorist? – Village-Connect / You Tube Video – And a Discussion at Suffolk University by Three Documentary Filmmakers.
What are the distinctions between a freedom fighter and a terrorist? The debate over the meaning of Nat Turner’s slave rebellion has been at the…
Jorge Ramos Exposes Hate Groups’ Rise In The Age Of Trump – Carolina Moreno / Huff Post
Poor white Americans’ current crisis shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country as off guard as it has – Alec Macgillis and Propublica / The Atlantic
Sometime during the past few years, the country started talking differently about white Americans of modest means. Early in the Obama era, the ennobling language…
We’re here, but we’re invisible’: Native Americans fight to vote on their reservations – Keri Lerner / ThinkProgress
Islamophobia Won’t End on Election Day (and It Didn’t Start With Trump) – Deepa Iyer / The Nation
Why should we trust you? Clinton’s big problem with young black Americans – Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor / The Guardian
Will Trump Resurrect a Violent South? Hate groups are on the rise – Jon Jefferson / The Daily Beast
Hate groups are on the rise. Klan membership is increasing astronomically. In Trumped-up America, are we marching back to Bloody Sunday and Bombingham? As police…
The way forward after black men are shot dead – Debbie Mukamal and David Skiansky / Wash Post
Nat Turner’s Skull and My Student’s Purse of Skin – Daina Ramey Berry / NYT
This month, Richard Hatcher, a former mayor of Gary, Ind., delivered what researchers suspect is the skull of Nat Turner, the rebel slave, to Turner’s…
Report finds racial bias in facial recognition technology – Jeff Stone / Christ Sci Monitor
A short history of white people rigging elections – Dara Lind / Vox
The Price We Paid: Race, Reparative Justice and the Drug War – Dionna King / The Root
How ‘Bias’ Went From a Psychological Observation to a Political Accusation – Emily Bazelon / NYT Magazine
In 2004, 57 police officers of different races were divided into two groups for a simple experiment. Half of them were shown two photo lineups,…