National News
MSNBC severs ties with Melissa Harris-Perry after host’s critical email – Paul Farhi / Wash Post
The Faces of American Power, Nearly as White as the Oscar Nominees – Haeyoun Park, Josh Keller and Josh Williams / NYT
The AIDS Crisis Hasn’t Ended In The Black And Latino Communities – Rae Ellen Bichell / NPR
How Should Asian-Americans Feel About the Peter Liang Protests? Jay Caspian Kang / NYT
Cincinnati cops reveal double standards black men face – Shaun King / NY Daily News
Malcolm X and the Black Lives Matter Movement – David A. Love / Huff Post
How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable – Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone
Minorities, for Rent ( A Satirical Website) – Matt Vasilogambros / The Atlantic
Ferguson Digs In Its Heels – Colin Gordon / Dissent
Black Workers Matter, Too – Sarah Anderson et.al. / The Nation
Muhammad Ali and the Black Panther Party – Dave Zirin / The Nation
The Crisis of Minority Unemployment – The Editorial Board / NYT
Albert Woodfox speaks after 43 years in solitary confinement: ‘I would not let them drive me insane’ – Ed Pilkington / theguardian
Democracy in Black: 3 Writers Wrestle With President Obama’s Blackness – Todd Steven Burroughs / The Root
Featured – Emmett Till and Tamir Rice, Sons of the Great Migration – Isabel Wilkerson / NYT
Vermont’s Black Leaders: We Were ‘Invisible’ to Bernie Sanders – David Freedlander / The Daily Beast
A Concrete Plan to Make Black Lives Matter – Mychal Denzel Smith / The Nation
Commission to Recognize 400 years of African American History / Press Release
Fifty years later, America still can’t understand the Black Panthers – Alyssa Rosenberg / Wash Post
What Antonin Scalia’s Death Means for the Supreme Court and the Country – David S. Cohen / Rolling Stone
The year of ‘enormous rage’: Number of hate groups rose by 14 percent in 2015 – Niraj Chokshi / Wash Post
Thomas Piketty on the rise of Bernie Sanders: The US enters a new political era / theGuardian
Feature – The Misdiagnosis of Terrorism – Rev. Dr. William J. Barber / Riverside Church NY City
Dear Friends of Race Inquiry: Please take the time to listen to a speech delivered by Rev. William Barber at a Martin Luther King Day…
The Clintons’ War on Drugs: When Black Lives Didn’t Matter – Donna Murch / The New Republic
Feature – White America’s ‘Broken Heart’ – Charles M. Blow / NYT
On Sunday, at the Corinthian Baptist Church in Des Moines, former President Bill Clinton, looking frail and sounding faint, stumped for his wife, working through…
Young black men in Chicago: Out of work, out of school, and out of luck – Sher Watts Spooner / Daily Kos
