Opinion
The Tragedy of America’s Rural Schools. By Casey Parks / NYT
How the United States Can Better Care for Mothers and Babies. Paid Post by Phillips/ NYT
Martin Luther King’s Long-Standing Critique of Police Brutality. By Jeanne Theoharis / The Atlantic
Why I Write. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
The Man Behind Critical Race Theory. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
What year is it in America, anyway? How complacency and naiveté brought us to this crisis. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
What’s Truly Behind Buckhead’s Push to Split from Atlanta to Form Its Own City? Community Leaders and Critics Say It’s ‘Taxes, Money & Race.’ By Kavontae Smalls / Atlanta Black Star
Biden vowed to make racial justice the heart of his agenda – is it still beating? By Lauren Gambino / The Guardian
Black Lives Matter: How far has the movement come? By Kwasi Konadu and Bright Gyamfi / The Conversation
From ‘Ku Kluxism’ to Trumpism. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
The South’s Republicans Talk About Freedom While People Die. By Margaret Renkl / NYT
Why America needs the Black church for its own survival. By Charlie Dates / Wash Post
Black cop shoots white woman: The saga of Michael Byrd and Ashli Babbitt. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
There’s a straight line from US racial segregation to the anti-abortion movement. By Randall Balmer / The Guardian
Texas shows us what post-democracy America would look like. By Dana Milbank / Wash Post
How a Small Town Silenced a Neo-Nazi Hate Campaign. By Elizabeth Williamson / NYT
Latino voters could be key to Gavin Newsom keeping his job. By Dan Merica and Kyung Lah / CNN
How Flint Closed the Gap Between Black and White Suffering Under COVID. By Edwin Rios / Mother Jones
The Number of White Americans Is Not “Declining.” By Daniel McGraw / The Bulwark
Cory Booker Outfoxed Republicans on ‘Defund the Police.’ Now What? By Emily Bazelon / NYT
Barbara Lee Has to Vote. By Aida Chavez / The Nation
Racial income and wealth gaps are huge – but the Fed doesn’t have the right tools to fix them. By Paul Wachtel / The Conversation
Some families of color remain wary of returning to classrooms as new school year begins. By Donna St. George / Wash Post
How Strong Is America’s Multiracial Democracy? By Thomas Edsall / NYT
MLK Warned Us About Moderates. Are We Listening? By Cliff Albright / Politico
Brace Yourself for the Man Who Could Become California’s Governor. By Farhad Manjoo / NYT
