National News
Justice Thomas Doesn’t See Anything Wrong With Excluding Jurors Based On Race – Ian Millhiser / Think Progress
The Supreme Court Just Sent a Strong Message About Racism in the Justice System – Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones
The Permanence of the Confederate Flag – Nora Kelly / The Atlantic
Don’t look now, but Barack Obama is suddenly popular – Philip Bump / Wash Post
A Million Questions From Descendants of Georgetown’s Slaves / NYT
The Dangerous Acceptance of Donald Trump – Adam Gopnik / The New Yorker
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, / As, to be hated, needs but to be seen,” the poet Alexander Pope wrote, in lines that were…
Here’s What You Should Know About The State Of Black America – Lilly Workneh / Huff Post
Black And Latino Students Lose Out To White Peers. And It’s Getting Worse – Rebecca Klein / Huff Post
120 Years After the Plessy Decision, Has Jim Crow Segregation Ended or Evolved? David Love – AtlBlackStar
Court Orders Mississippi Town To Desegregate Schools – Emma Brown / Wash Post
Appetite for destruction: White America’s death wish is the source of Trump’s hidden support – Andrew O’Hehir / Salon
Today’s teens are more skeptical that racism will go away than teens in 1966 – Victoria M. Massie / Vox
One of the Most Racially Divided States in the Country Just Passed a New Voter-ID Bill – Ari Berman / The Nation
How psychologists used these doctored Obama photos to get white people to support conservative politics – Max Ehrenfreund / Wash Post
Prison slavery’: Alabama inmates strike over awful conditions, unpaid work – Stephen Lamb / RT
Autism Research’s Overlooked Racial Bias – Amy Yee / The Atlantic
What Young Men Of Color Can Teach Us About The Achievement Gap – Elissa Nadworny / NPR
Racism by Any Other Name – Vann R. NewKirk / The Atlantic
Terms such as “racial conflict” fail to describe the challenge Obama faced, or the resentment that has powered Trump’s rise. Read more and view the…
Ex-Cop Facing Federal Civil Rights Charges For Fatally Shooting Man In The Back – Mike Hayes / BuzzFeed
How to get justice in civil rights cold cases – Aditya Shah / Politico
Gay stigma still behind Atlanta’s AIDS epidemic – Gracie Bonds Staples / AJC
South Carolina’s poisonous police culture: The death of Lori Jean Ellis – Radley Balko / Wash Post
Louisiana’s Color-Coded Death Penalty – The Editorial Board / NYT
The last time a white person in Louisiana was executed for a crime against a black person was in 1752, when a soldier named Pierre…
A New Investigation Confirms Your Worst Suspicions About Michigan Leaders and the Flint Water Crisis – Julia Lurie / Mother Jones
The Memphis Massacre of 1866 and Black Voter Suppression Today – Calvin Schermerhorn / The Atlantic
Stricter Rules for Voter IDs Reshape Races – Michael Wines and Manny Fernandez / NYT
Voter Suppression Is the Only Way Donald Trump Can Win – Ari Berman / The Nation
The 2016 electorate will be the most diverse in American history, with people of color comprising 31 percent of eligible voters, up from 29 percent…