National News
The Reckless Prosecution of Tiger Mandingo – Rod McCullom / The Nation
Many Native American Communities Struggle With Effects of Heroin Use – Laurel Morales / NPR
Teachers Of All Races Are More Likely To Punish Black Students – Jeremy Adam Smith / Huff Post
This is your brain on Whiteness: The invisible psychology of white American ignorance explained – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Malcolm X Matters: Icon’s Words Still Ring True – Kirsten West Savali / The Root
Is Harvard Showing Bias Against Asian-Americans – Kirk Carapezza / NPR
A Tax on Blackness – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
Barack Obama – Discusses his autobiography, “Dreams from My Father,” and his early experiences with race – September 1995
Rise in Suicide by Black Children Surprises Researchers – Sabrina Tavernise / NYT
For Black Scholars at PWIs, Speaking Truth to Power on Social Media Can Be Professional Suicide – Kristen West Savali / The Root
White Out – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
Housing Apartheid American Style – The Editorial Board / NYT
61 Years After Brown Board of Education Many Schools Remain Separate and Unequal – Rebecca Klein / Huff Post
America is Deeply Divided Over How Media Covers Race and Police Misconduct – Ariel Edwards-Levy / Huff Post
A Million Missing Black Voters – David A. Graham / The Atlantic
Silence is Deadly: Mental Health and the Black Community -Chirlane McCray / The Root
A Conversation About Growing Up Black – Joe Brewester and Perri Peltz / NYT
The Curse of Segregation – Derek Thompson / The Atlantic
Baltimore, the burden of history and the uses of “violence” : A week of fear and hope – Andrew O’Hehir / Salon
There is no social change without coercion: Race, Baltimore, and how violence makes nonviolence possible -Musa Al-Gharbi / Salon
At Least 304 Black People Were Killed by Police in the US in 2014 – Mapping Police Violence
