Opinion
Trump offers housing secretary job to man who wants to gut law banning housing discrimination – Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress
Jeff Sessions, Trump’s Pick for Attorney General, Is a Fierce Opponent of Civil Rights – Ari Berman / The Nation
You say “racist,” I say “white supremacist”: Sorry, Kevin Drum, “white supremacy” is a fact — not a “fad” – Chauncey Devega / Salon
The Populism Perplex : The Conundrum of the White Working Class – Paul Krugman / NYT
The 2016 Election Exposed Deep-Seated Racism. Where Do We Go From Here? Brandon Tensley, Michael C. Richardson and Rejane Frederick / Bill Moyers
This wasn’t an election. It was an exposure. That was a common thread of the 2016 Facing Race conference in Atlanta, Georgia, where more than 2,000 activists,…
My Skin Color Is A ‘F**king Disease’ In Trump’s America – Sahaj Kohli / Huff Post
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,…
