Opinion
An Open Letter to All Black Students at Predominantly White Institutions – Brandon Patterson / Huff Post
Dear white America: Your working class is literally dying – and this is your idea of an answer? Chauncey Devega/ Salon
Forced busing didn’t fail. Desegregation is the best way to improve our schools – George Theoharis / Wash Post
Ending the Cycle of Racial Isolation – The Editorial Board / NYT
Million Man March, 20 Years On – Charles M. Blow / NYT
Jeb Bush Is Wrong on Voting Rights Act, and It’ll Cost Him – Theodore R. Johnson III / The Root
How The Constitution Was Indeed Pro-Slavery – David Waldstreicher / The Atlantic
Color-Blindness is Counterproductive – Adia Harvey Whitfield / The Atlantic
Teaching Slavery to Reluctant Listeners – Edward E. Baptist / NYT
The Left’s Attack on Color-Blindness Goes Too Far – Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic
The Truth of ‘Black Lives Matter’ – The Editorial Board / NYT
Instead of cash reparations, give every Black American 5/3 of a vote – Theodore Johnson / Wash Post
Black America owes no forgiveness: How Christianity hinders racial justice – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Police Abuse Is a Form of Terror – Charles M. Blow / NYT
Could black people in the U.S. qualify as refugees? Raha Jorjani / Wash Post
A light-skinned Latina like me will never be able to live in the land of whiteness – Melissa Lozada-Oliva / The Guardian
Between Pain and Despair : What Ta-Nehisi Coates is Missing – Melvin L. Rogers / Dissent
The Shooting of Charles Dubose – Charles M. Blow / NYT
How Texas is whitewashing Civil War history – Editorial Board / Wash Post
Germany Has Lessons For the South – Anand Giridharadas / NYT
America’s Postracial Fantasy – Anna Holmes / NYT
Last Battles – Jalani Cobb / The New Yorker
What is Whiteness ? – Nell Irvin Painter / NYT
From Ferguson to Charleston and Beyond, Anguish About Race Keeps Building – Lydia Polgreen / NYT
Black Like Who? Rachel Dolezal’s Harmful Masquerade – Tamara Winfrey Harris / NYT
When Bail Is Out of Defendant’s Reach, Other Cost Mount – Shaila Dewan / NYT
