National News
Are We in The Midst of a New Civil Rights Era ? – Rebecca Onion / Slate
AP Poll: Over Half of Black Americans Say Police Have Treated Them Unfairly – Jesse J. Holland / TPM
Ferguson’s Legacy: For Blacks, empowerment amid sense of injustice – Patrik Jonsson / Christian Science Monitor
A man elected before his time in Miss. gives politics one more go – Scott Rodd / Wash Post
Lifting the burden of race: What an Obama led commission could learn from Clinton’s failed One American Initiative on Race – Carol V.R. George / Salon
White Flight Never Ended – Alana Semuels / The Atlantic
Thanks to the Supreme Court Traffic Stops Can Become a Gamble of Life and Death – Charles D. Ellison / The Root
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ brilliant inspiration: Remembering James Baldwin’s influence on his 91st birthday – Amy Kittelstrom / Salon
How Slavery’s Legacy Affects the Mental Health of Black Americans – Alma Carten / The New Republic
Are Americans More Pessimistic About Race – or More Realistic – David A. Graham / The Atlantic
A Dream Undone (Inside the Campaign to Roll Back the Voting Rights Act) – Jim Rutenberg / NYT
White people have a race – but everyone flips out when we talk about it – Jenee Desmond Harris / Vox
How Did Driving While Black Turn Deadly for Sandra Bland – Dan McClain / The Nation
Dylann Roof Wasn’t Charged With Terrorism Because He’s White – Julia Craven / NYT
Study: White people see Black Americans As Less Competent than “African-Americans” – German Lopez / Vox
Structural Racism Needs to Be a Presidential Campaign Issue – Jamil Smith / New Republic
How Privilege Became a Provocation – Parul Sehgal / NYT
How One Law Banning Ethnic Studies Led to its Rise – J. Winston Phippen / The Atlantic
Fearless Journalist and All-Round Badass Ida B. Wells Honored With Google Doodle – Dominique Mosbergen / Huff Post
One year after Eric Garner’s death, a quest for path out of police community hostility – Harry Bruinius / Christian Sci Monitor
Our Racial Moment of Truth – Isabel Wilkerson / NYT
What the Country Owes Harriet Tubman – Brent Staples / NYT
The radical chic of Ta – Nehisi Coates – Carlos Lozada / Wash Post
Black child poverty rate holds steady, even as other groups see declines – Eilleen Patten and Jens Manuel Krogstad / Pew Res Ctr
The Black President Some Worried About Has Arrived – Janell Ross / Wash Post
Prosecution Is About Locking Black People Up – Leon Neyfakh / Slate
