National News
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…
Alabama Prosecutor Sets the Penalties and Fills the Coffers – Shaila Dewan and Andrew W. Lehren / NYT
How fake news led Dylann Roof to murder nine people -Martenzie Johnson / The Undefeated
Have you heard the story about the Democratic National Committee hiring actors to disrupt Donald Trump’s rallies? What about President Barack Obama pulling $2.6 billion…
A Wrenching Decision Where Black History and Floods Intertwine – Jess Bidgood / NYT
What Ben Carson Should Learn About Housing Segregation – Richard Rothstein / Bill Moyers and Company
Barack Obama Says He ‘Absolutely’ Faced Racism In Office – Haley Miller / CNN
Political Divide on Campuses Hardens After Trump’s Victory – Anemona Hartocollis / NYT
The Struggle and Triumph of America’s First Black Doctors -Karen Jordan / The Atlantic
African American physicians have dealt with distrust and misperceptions for more than a century. Around 1906, a young boy in Atlanta was stricken with a…
The Link Between Race and Solitary Confinement – Juleyka Lantigua-Williams / The Atlantic
Following Decades of Assimilation in America : Are Jews White? Emma Green / The Atlantic
Here’s how socialists shoved racist groups back into their hateful hole in the 1990s – Travis Gettys / Raw Story
The Scourge of Racial Bias in New York State’s Prisons – Michael Schwirtz, Michale Winerip and Robert Gebeloff / NYT
“Justice Delayed is Justice Denied,” Walter Scott Case Proves – Adam Hamze / Huff Post
The Dakota Pipeline Protests, Explained – Josh Siegel / The Daily Signal
Both Feeling Threatened, American Muslims and Jews Join Hands – Laurie Goodstein / NYT
37 Civil Rights Groups Seek Investigation Into ‘Torture’ At Lewisburg Prison – Joseph Shapiro / NPR
In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, 37 civil rights, human rights and church groups on Monday asked the U.S. Department of Justice…
What the Alt-Right Really Means ( White Supremacist and/or White Nationalist) – Christopher Caldwell / NYT
The Horror of Lynchings Lives On – The Editorial Board / NYT
Blacks, Other Minorities Arming Themselves in Record Numbers Since Trump’s Victory – Tanasia Kenney / Atlanta Black Star
Black people are three times likelier to be killed in police chases – Thomas Frank / USA Today
FLINT, Mich. – James Thompson was the first to die. The 75-year-old Navy veteran had just taken four neighborhood boys for haircuts when an SUV…
What about the black working class? Tanzina Vega / CNN Money
Amid all of the talk about economic populism this election cycle, one group has been largely left out: working class Americans of color. The focus…