National
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
Two states, two competing futures for voting rights in America – Katrina Vanden Heuvel / The Nation
Black Deaths Matter – Seth Freed Wessler / The Nation
Open Doors and Lingering Pain at Charleston Church Where 9 Were Killed – Richard Fausset / NYT
Ted Cruz wants to be king : Make no mistake, the GOP extremist real goal is absolute control – Heather Cox Richardson / Salon
Poor students in the deep south are graduating, but to what ? – Chico Harlan / Wash Post
Black Lives Matter shouldn’t settle for Democratic candidates’ promises to end private prisons – Dara Lind / Vox
The Color of Debt: How Collection Suits Squeeze Black Neighbohoods – Paul Kiel and Annie Weldman / ProPublica
The Largest Most Successful Slave Revolt in History – Steven Hahn / Slate
The horrifying lesson of Tamir Rice: White America will use “objectivity” to justify the murder of black children – Brittney Cooper / Salon
The discomfiting truth about white feminism: Meryl Streep, Amy Poehler and the movement’s long history of racial insensitivity – Eesha Pandit / Salon
A Black President Is Not a Magical Negro – Jamal Smith / New Republic
Echoing Calls for Justice of Million Man March, but Widening Audience – Jada F. Smith / NYT
