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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
Son of Chicago cop, home from college to surprise his sick mom, killed in ‘mistaken identity’ shooting – Katie Mattler / Wash Post
