National
The Supreme Court just cleared the way for the mass disenfranchisement of voters – Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress
Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health – Olga Khazan / The Atlantic
Ira Berlin, 1941–2018 – Remembering a man who transformed scholarship on slavery and African-American culture – Eric Foner / The Nation
Georgia church expelled from Southern Baptist Convention over racial discrimination charges – Holly Meyer / USA Today
How Northern Newspapers Covered Lynchings – Charles Seguin / NYT
Anthony Bourdain’s Meal With Obama Was a Proud American Moment – John Hendrickson / Rolling Stone
What a 1963 RFK-James Baldwin meeting teaches us about race in Trump’s America – Sean Illing / Vox
North Carolina tries to revive its discriminatory voter ID law as constitutional amendment – Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress
Will the State Takeover of Jackson Schools be ‘Better Together’ or the Same Old Education Politics? Jeff Bryant / The Progressive
Driving While Black Has Gotten Even Worse – Tim Murphy / Mother Jones
Banking Black – Kia Gregory / The New Republic
Trump’s Judge Picks Could Boost Racial Bias in the Justice System For Generations – Cecilia Smith / Atl Black Star
Asian Groups See Bias in Plan to Diversify New York’s Elite Schools – Elizabeth A. Harris and Winnie Hu / NYT
The Education Of Bobby Kennedy — On Race – Karen Grigsby Bates / NPR Morning Edition
D’Souza’s Reward – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
The youngest mayor in America is set to experiment with a universal basic income – Walter Einenkel / Daily Kos
No longer ‘voiceless,’ Louisiana felons regain the right to vote – Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress
The Persistence of Whitewashing – Jason Silverstein / The New Republic
What’s a ‘Black Identity Extremist’? Groups Demand Trump DHS Release ‘Race Paper’ – Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan / Democracy Now
White America’s racial resentment is the real impetus for welfare cuts, study says – Caitllin Dewey / Wash Post
The US has an HIV epidemic – and its victims are gay black men – Stephen W Thrasher / The Guardian
Gentrification: Reversal of Historic White Flight Is Creating a New Black Flight – Cecilla Smith / Atl Black Star
The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing – Khalil Gibran Muhammad / The Nation
Black, Female and Running for Governor: Can She Win in the South? Jonathan Martin and Richard Fausset / NYT
At a Killer’s Sentencing, Native Americans Talk of Both Healing and Enduring Suspicions – Rahima Nasa / Propublica
Black and Latinx people face the greatest barriers to re-entry after prison; women fare worst – Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter Poza / Daily Kos
“It’s Time for Moral Confrontation”: New Poor People’s Campaign Stages Nationwide Civil Disobedience – Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Trump’s brutal policies target the most vulnerable Americans – Katrina Vanden Heuvel / Wash Post
Ben Carson vs. the Fair Housing Act – The Editorial Board / NYT
Changing the Stories of Police Shooting with the Justice Teams Network – Sarah Jaffe / The Progressive
