National News
The Slave-State Origins of Modern Gun Control – Saul Cornell and Eric M. Rubens / The Atlantic
Justice after Injustice : What happens after a wrongly convicted person is exonerated – Lara Bazelon / Slate
Prison Kids: join the fight Against the Mass Incarceration of Our Youth – The Root Staff / The Root
President Jimmy Carter: I Was The Only White Child In The Neighborhood – OWN / Huff Post
An Ohio town where races have mixed freely for more than 200 years – Kevin Williams / Wash Post
After Charleston: Recovery and Resistance since the Emanuel Nine – David Remnick / The New Yorker
Barack Obama just gave the most important racial justice speech of his presidency – Brittney Cooper / Salon
Government policies based on racist myths help dissolve black families – Syreeta McFadden / The Guardian
Race Is Always The Issue – Tressie McMillan Cotton / The Atlantic
Study Explains Why Ben Carson Won’t Help The Republican Party Win Black Voters – Kira lerner / thinkprogress
What Happened to German America ? – Erik Kirschbaum / NYT
Prison versus Harvard in an Unlikely Debate – Leslie Brody / Wall St Journal
The Number of Black Teachers Has Fallen in 9 Major Cities – Casey Quinlan / Thinkprogress
How the South’s Public Enemy No 1 Climbed Onto the Supreme Court – Annette Gordon-Reed / Wash Post
Ahmed Mohamed is just one example of the bigotry American Muslims face – Linda Sarcour / The Guardian
Ta-Nehisi Coates: “For African Americans, unfreedom is the historical norm ” – Ezra Klein / Vox
The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration – Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic
Will the Ferguson Commission’s Final Report Just Collect Dust On a Shelf – Mariah Stewart / Huff Post
How we won, and are losing, the right to vote – John Lewis / Wash Post
How Psychiatrist Willaim Grier, dead at 89, predicted BlackLivesMatter with ‘Black Rage’ – Justin Wm. Moyer / Wash Post
Campaign 2016 : The Angry White Man’s last Stand – Charles Ellison / The Root
Is There a Black Silent Majority? Kelefa Sanneh / The New Yorker
This Community is Not A White Community – David Noriega / BuzzFeed
History Repeats Itself With Backlash Against Black Empowerment – Todd Steven Burroughs / The Root
White Fright: Does Donald Trump represent the ascendency of white nationalism on the American right? Reihan Salam – Slate
Ken Burn’s ‘Civil War’ After Dylann Roof – Christopher Dickey / The Daily Beast
