National News
How Racism Sneaks Into Everyday Life – Jill Richardson / Alternet
Why Won’t Hollywood Cast Asian Actors? Keith Chow / NYT
‘Why Can’t Our Kids Go To School Together?’ Asks Board Member In Alabama – Dan Carsen / NPR
What Happened to Sandra Bland? Debbie Nathan / The Nation
To answer that question, you must begin way before she died in a Texas jail. Read more.
Who gets to borrow white privilege? This is what happens when an Asian-American cop kills an unarmed African-American – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Coverage of black female victims of police brutality falls short: Column – Meredith Clark / USA Today
How One Mississippi District Made Integration Work -Jackie Mader / Huff Post
Chicago After Laquan McDonald – Ben Austen / NYT
When School Districts Get Deliberate About Desegregation – Emily Deruy / The Atlantic
The Census Bureau Will Pay $15 Million For Racial Discrimination After The Recession – Carimah Townes / Think Progress
Racial Discrimination and Capital Punishment: The Indefensible Death Sentence of Duane Buck – Lincoln Caplan / The New Yorker
How American oligarchs created the concept of race to divide and conquer the poor – Courtland Miloy / Wash Post
While teaching U.S. history at a public charter high school in the District, Julian Hipkins III noticed that students tended to assume that “race” was…
Harriet Tubman is perfect for the $20 bill, but which Tubman? Philip Kennicott / Wash Post
Cops Are Still Killing People, But The Nation Has Stopped Paying Attention – Nick Wing and Julia Craven / Huff Post
Cable News Is Getting Whiter, And The Timing Is Terrible – Zeba Blay / Huff Post
We Need to Build a Voting-Rights Movement – Rep. John Conyers and Barbara Arnwine / The Nation
The racism of good intentions – Carlos Lozada / Wash Post
White America’s Obama-era freakout: What research can tell us about racial animus since 2008 – Sean McElwee / Salon
Millions of White Americans Are Dealing With Economic Pain They Haven’t Seen for Decades – Tim Wise / Alternet
America’s Changing Racial Makeup Won’t Magically Save the Democratic Party – Julianne Hing / The Nation
Read the Speech Bernie Sanders Gave at the Vatican – Time
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is speaking at the Vatican Friday, April 8, 2016, praising Pope Francis and denouncing income inequality. The Democratic presidential candidate, who is…
Behind the Birmingham Letter – Chris Bodennner / The Atlantic
D.C.’s grim, unfinished business, 154 years after emancipation – Colbert I. King / Wash Post
272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown. What Does It Owe Their Descendants ? Rachel Swarns / NYT
For Native Americans, Health Care Is A Long, Hard Road Away – Misha Friedman / NPR
The South’s new re-segregation plan: The Koch brothers, ALEC and the sneaky scheme to undo Brown v Board of Education – Diane Ravitch / Salon
Eighty years after Brown, Southern segregation is on the rise — and “school choice” is its vehicle. Read more here
