National News
Beyond the Chokehold: The Path to Eric Garner’s Death – Al Baker, J. David Goodman and Benjamin Mueller / NYT
White Panic, white denial: The racial prehistory of the McKinney pool party that white America can’t let go. – Andrew O’Hehir / Salon
We Must Make Police Brutality Against Black Women an Issue in 2016 – Kali Nicole Gross / The Root
Kalief Browder Took His Own Life, but the System Murdered Him – Stephen A. Crockett Jr. / The Root
Black Deaths Matter – Edwin Rios with Kai Wright / Mother Jones
Who Gets to Go to the Pool ? – Brit Bennett / NYT
“Dinnertimin” and “No Tipping: How Advertisers Targeted Black Consumers in the 1970s – Lenika Cruz / The Atlantic
“We are in a revolutionary moment”: Chris Hedges explains why an uprising is coming – and soon – Elias Isquith / Salon
Why So Few of New York’s Finest Are Black – Ginger Adams Otis / The Atlantic
We’ll Need An Economic Program to Make #BlacklivesMatter: Here Are Three ideas – Jessie A. Myerson and Mychal Denzel Smith / The Nation
Black Americans killed by police twice as likely to be unarmed as white people – Joe Swaine, Oliver Laughland, Jamiles Lartey / The Guardian
Obama’s true meaning of America – Greg Jaffe / Wash Post
Finding a Slave Ship, Uncovering History – The Editorial Board / NYT
The racial spectacle of the National Spellling Bee: Our predictable “model minority” story strikes again. – Sameer Pandya / Salon
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
