National
Ten Confederate Memorials That are Somehow Still Standing – Kali Holloway / Salon via Alternet
The Supreme Court Takes on the All-White Jury – Spencer Amdur / New Republic
The Price of Union: The Undefeatable South – Nicholas Lemann / The New Yorker
In Heroin Crisis White Families Seek Gentler War On Drugs – Katharine Q. Seelye / NYT
How Prejudicial Prosecutors Create All-White Juries – Mark Joseph Stern / Slate
Freedom Still Waits – Sherrilyn A. Ifil / The Atlantic
South Carolina Video Reveals the Problem With Zero Tolerance – Brent Staples / NYT
She was guity of being a black girl: The mundane terror of police violence in American Schools – Brittney Cooper / Salon
Breaking Into James Baldwin’s House – Thomas Chatterton Williams / The New Yorker
Diversity is for White People: The Big Lie Behind a Well-Intended Word – Ellen Berrey / Salon
There Were Fewer Black Men In Medical School in 2014 Than In 1978 – Lauren Silverman / NPR
Obama Explains The Problem With ‘All Lives Matter’ – Carimah Townes / Thinkprogress
Black-Owned Media is On The Decline in a Time When Its Needed Most – Olivia / Atlanta Black Star
The Disproportionate Risk of Driving While Black – Sharon Lafraniere and Andrew W. Lehren / NYT
Asian Americans speak out against a decades-old ‘model minority’ myth – Yanan Wang / Wash Post
Slavery Did Not Die Honestly – David W. Blight / The Atlantic
Breaking the Racial Contract – Charles W. Mills / Dissent
The Two Asian Americas – Karan Mahajan / The New Yorker
