Opinion
Why whites must join fight for black justice – Erin Heaney / USA Today
The Enduring Importance of Identity Liberalism – Lovia Gyarkye / New Republic
A Harvard professor argues that fixing America’s urban poverty will require a dramatically different approach – Alana Semuels / The Atlantic
Poor, black neighborhoods have persisted in America for decades. And despite a few public-policy efforts to make things better—which include helping families move to other…
Donald Trump Rages, at the Wrong Target- The Editorial Board / NYT
Millions of Americans are justifiably frightened by the tide of racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia that has swept the country since the election of Donald Trump,…
To resist a Trump presidency, ask: “What would the abolitionists do?” Linda Hirsham / Wash Post
This Wasn’t a Working-Class Revolt. It Was a White Revolt – Tamara Draut / Bill Moyers & Company
Ideología: The Roots of Latino Dissatisfaction – Juhem Navarro-Rivera / Demos
Why Donald Trump’s election means we must work together for a Third Reconstruction in America – Dr. William J. Barber II / Bill Moyers & Company
The reactionary wave that swept across America with the election of Donald Trump is not an anomaly in our history. It is an all-too-familiar pattern…
2016, Meet 1877: Trump’s Ascendance Is Creepily Like the End of Reconstruction – Barrett Holmes Pitner/ The Daily Beast
Making America White Again – Toni Morrison / The New Yorker
The choices made by white men, who are prepared to abandon their humanity out of fear of black men and women, suggest the true horror…
The GOP’s Attack on Voting Rights Was the Most Under-Covered Story of 2016 – Ari Berman / The Nation
No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear – Toni Morrison / The Nation
What Whiteness Means in the Trump Era – Nell Irvin Painter / NYT
Donald J. Trump campaigned on the slogan “Make America Great Again,” a phrase whose “great” was widely heard as “white.” Certainly the election has been…
Malcolm X on Donald Trump – You Tube
Insert Trump for Goldwater. Malcolm X’s commentary on Goldwater running for president in 1964 is eerily relevant to our elections today. Watch here
Once Again, Black Women Did The Work White Women Refused To – Shamira Ibrahim / VSB
A Time for Rage ( Fuck Trump) – Timothy Shenk / Dissent
President-elect Donald Trump is a historical shock — unless you study American history – Chauncey Devega/ Salon
America Elects a Bigot – Charles M. Blow / NYT
Donald J. Trump is president-elect of the United States. Now there’s a sentence I never thought I’d write. Against all odds and against all forms…
Homeless in America – Thomas L. Freidman / NYT
I began election night writing a column that started with words from an immigrant, my friend Lesley Goldwasser, who came to America from Zimbabwe in…
Harry Belafonte: What Do We Have to Lose? Everything / NYT
O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath — America will be!” — Langston Hughes,…
Beyond Lying: Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Reality – Jason Stanley / NYT
Republicans are now vowing Total War. And the consequences could be immense – Paul Waldman / Wash Post
America will become more racist regardless who wins the election – Marcus Ruiz Evans / Race Inquiry
America will become more racist – after the election. Regardless of who wins. And it has absolutely nothing to do with Donald Trump. It feels…
The Roots of Trump and the Tea Party: The Hidden Injuries of Class, Race and Culture – Robert Kuttner / Alternet
Trump’s Inconvenient Racial Truth – Nikole Hannah-Jones / NYT Magazine
The Miseducation of the White Man: How Our Education System Failed White Voters – George Theoharis / The Root
