Georgetown University Plans Steps to Atone for Slave Past – Rachel L. Swarns / NYT
The school, which in 1838 sold 272 slaves, plans to award preferential status in the admissions process to descendants of slaves, among other moves. John…
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I help organizations hire people — and watch white candidates get favored again and again – Leniece F. Brissett / Vox
A Southern city wants to secede from its school district, raising concerns about segregation – Emma Brown / Wash Post
The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street – Alexia Fernandez Campbell / The Atlantic
Collegiate Voices – Trump fights breaking out across college campuses – Tyler Pager / Politico
How two of L.B.J.’s least celebrated accomplishments shaped the battle between Clinton and Trump – Kevin Baker / NYT
Latino and Hispanic identities aren’t the same. They’re also not racial groups – Victoria M. Massie / Vox
Dwyane Wade’s cousin Nykea Aldridge killed; 2 brothers charged – Ralph Ellis and Vivian Kuo / CNN
For black communities the question of ‘who you gonna call’ is real – Thandisizwe Chimurenga / Daily Kos
Americans are supposed to turn to police after a murder. In black communities, they often can’t – German Lopez / Vox
A veteran crime reporter explains how police under- and overpolice black Americans. Read more here
Mothers fighting Chicago gun violence one block at a time – Sher Watts Spooner / Daily Kos
3 dead, 23 wounded in Chicago shootings from Saturday afternoon through early Sunday morning – Megan Crepeau and Denanese Williams-Harris / Chicago Tribune
Making a Home for Black History : The vision and the challenges behind a new museum on the National Mall – Vinson Cunningham / The New Yorker
The disturbing dawn of the alt-right: Donald Trump’s the leader of a dark movement in America – Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Donald Trump’s Description of Black America Is Offending Those Living in It – Richard Fausset, Alan Blinder and John Eligon / NYT
A Judge Blocked North Carolina’s Plan To Suppress Black Voters. The GOP Found A Way To Do It Anyway. – Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress
Chicago’s Inescapable Segregation – Melinda D. Anderson / The Atlantic
I Have a Black Son in Baltimore’: Anxious New Parents and an Era of Unease – Rachel L. Swarns / NYT
Prosecutors say Dylann Roof ‘self-radicalized’ online, wrote another manifesto in jail – Mark Berman / Wash Post
America’s Pay Gap Could Cost Black Women More Than $1 Million – Catherine Pearson / Huff Post
When enslaved people sued Georgetown’s founders for freedom – William G. Thomas III / Wash Post
Whether the establishment likes it or not, white nationalists still power the Trump train – Alex Kotch / Salon
On Social Media, As In Life, White People Are Way Less Likely To Talk About Race – Gene Demby / NPR
‘Racialists’ are cheered by Trump’s latest strategy – David Weigel / Wash Post
Our Drug Laws Have Always Been Racist: America’s Ugly History of Prohibition as a Tool to Oppress Minorities – David Bearman / Alternet
Affluent and Black, and Still Trapped by Segregation – John Eligon and Robert Gebeloff / NYT
Why well-off black families end up living in poorer areas than white families with similar or even lower incomes. MILWAUKEE — Their daughter was sick…
Racial Violence in Milwaukee Was Decades in the Making, Residents Say – John Eligon / NYT
The Legacy of Lynching, on Death Row – Jeffrey Toobin / The New Yorker
In Alabama, Bryan Stevenson is saving inmates from execution and memorializing the darkest episodes of America’s past. In 1989, a twenty-nine-year-old African-American civil-rights lawyer named…
The Breitbart alt-right just took over the GOP – Ben Shapiro / Wash Post
“This man is the most dangerous political operative in America. Steve Bannon runs the new vast right-wing conspiracy – and wants to take down Hillary…
A look inside the training the White House thinks could stop the police shooting, protest, damning DOJ report cycle – Janell Ross / Wash Post
So Much For Dog Whistles. Trump Has Now Fully Embraced White Nationalists – Laurel Raymond / ThinkProgress
