Opinion
Who Segregated America? By Colin Gordon / Dissent
The Supreme Court’s originalism is white supremacy. By Baynard Woods / NBC News
Military-Grade Surveillance in Schools Won’t Stop the Next Mass Shooting, but It Will Increase the Policing of Black Students. By Sidney Fussell / New Republic
Why Did Republicans Become So Extreme? By Paul Krugman / NYT
The Supreme Court Took the Most Extreme Course Possible. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
Why abortion restrictions disproportionately impact people of color. By Kiara Alfonseca / ABC News
Beyond Jan. 6: Trump’s mob violence is now the standard GOP model. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Republicans maintain racism by fighting critical race theory. By Ibram X. Kendi / USA Today
The End Of Roe v. Wade Would Be A Disaster For Black Mothers. By Nathalie Baptiste / HuffPost
Historically Black colleges should no longer have to do more with less. By Tony Allen and Glenda Glover / Wash Post
Debunking Historical Myths with My High School Students. By Katie Wills Evans / The Progressive
Juneteenth, as much as the Fourth of July, is America’s true birthday. By Peniel E. Joseph / CNN
The Land of the Free Leads the World in Incarceration. Why? By Christina Carrega / Capital B
Hiding Buffalo’s History of Racism Behind a Cloak of Unity. By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor / The New Yorker
Herschel Walker Lied About Being a Cop and It Won’t Matter. By Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark
Democracy in America is a rigged game. By Ian Millhiser / Vox
When a White Republican Teen Invited a Black Pastor to Preach in His Hometown. By Julie Beck / The Atlantic
There will be no gun control: For many white Americans, the idea of the gun is all they have left. By Chris Hedges / Salon
The Expansion of Democracy Is What Republican Elites Fear Most. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
America Needs to Examine Its Relationship to Black Suffering. By Savala Nolan / Time
“This Is Racist Terrorism”: Ex-Buffalo Cop Says Gun Violence & White Supremacy Must Both Be Addressed. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
What the shooting in Uvalde has meant for the Latino community. By Mary Louise Kelly, Alejandra Marquez Janse and Roberta Rampton / NPR
Two Years After George Floyd, Black Leaders Reflect On Change. By Jared Council / Forbes
The Arrow in America’s Heart. By Elizabeth Dias / NYT
It’s Not Looking Too Good for Government of the People, by the People and for the People. Jamelle Bouie / NYT
What It’s Like to Be Black and Asian in America. By Kimiko Matsuda Lawrence / Time
