National
Extremism ends in civil war: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and a right wing insurgency the GOP can no longer control – Heather Cox Richardson / Salon
13 black women on how an Oklahoma city police officer terrorized their neighborhood – Michelle Garcia / Vox
A Hundred Years Later, “Birth of A Nation” Hasn’t Gone Away – Allison Hobbs / The New Yorker
Wake Up, Black People. The Supreme Court is Poised to Drop a Bomb on You – Charles D. Ellison / The Root
White Supremacist groups see Trump bump – Ben Schreckinger / Politico
Abigail Fisher, Please Stop Blaming People of Color for Your Mediocrity – Kwanzaa Imani / For Harriet
Where Justice Scalia got the idea that African Americans might be better off at ‘slower track’ universities -Yanan Wang / Wash Post
Fisher V. University of Texas: The Future of Affirmative Action at Public Universities – Richard D. Kahlenberg / The Atlantic
On Capital Hill, the United States is a very, very white place – Janell Ross / Wash Post
The South won the Civil War: White men racial resentment, and how the Bitter Minority came to rule us all – Paul Rosenberg / Salon
The Cozy Bigotry of Donald Trump’s America – Alexandros Orphanides / Huff Post
150 Years of Freedom: Proposed Abolition Day – Allison Keyes / The Root
December 6, 1865 : The Thirteenth Amendment Prohibiting Slavery is Ratified – Richard Kreitner / The Nation
America Needs a National Slavery Monument – Blair Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle / NYT
Gun Violence is America’s cardinal sin: Why we won’t do anything about a raging epidemic – Eesha Pandit / Salon
The Neuroscience Behind Why White Cops Kill Black Men – Bobby Azarian / Raw Story
Students’ Protest May Play role in Supreme Court Case on Race in Admissions – Adam Liptak / NYT
How to Understand White Male Terrorism – Max Berger / The Nation
