Opinion
The racist effects of school reopening during the pandemic — by a teacher. By Nataliya Braginsky and Valerie Strauss / Wash Post
Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Trump and the bitter American truth: “We do not have a real democracy.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
John Lewis’ Legacy Is the Right to Vote. And It’s Under Attack. By Ari Berman / Mother Jones
Trump’s Portland Offensive Fits a Long Pattern. Trump Is Determined to Split the Country in Two. By Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic
Susan Rice Talks Watching Trump Dismantle Her Pandemic Response Unit. By Jon Blistein / Rolling Stone
What Coronavirus Job Losses Reveal About Racism in America. By Lena V. Groeger / ProPublica
Bryan Stevenson on how America can heal. By Ezra Klein / Vox
We Need to Begin Again. In the midst of a moral reckoning, America needs a third founding. By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. / The Atlantic
What ruined Donald Trump? By Leonard Pitts / Salt Lake Tribune
Donald Trump has unified America – against him. By Robert Reich / The Guardian
Joe Biden’s VP Could Be the Most Powerful Ever. By Christian Paz / The Atlantic
Why racism can have long-term effects on children’s health. By A. Pawlowski / Today
First Comes Police Reform. Then Comes Everything Else. By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
Pandemic, Protests Cause Racism to Resonate as a Public Health Issue. By Joseph P. Williams / US News
How Black Lives Matter Could Reshape the 2020 Elections. By Charlotte Alter / Time
Putting Heroes, and Traitors, Where They Belong. By The Editorial Board / NYT
Why Trump’s White Grievance Message Strikes a Sour Note in the Suburbs. By Katie Glueck / NYT
The Case for Elizabeth Warren. The former front-runner is still the best candidate for Black Americans. By Julia Craven / Slate
Could This City Hold the Key to the Future of Policing in America? By Joseph Goldstein and Kevin Armstrong / NYT
What the ‘black-on-black crime’ fallacy misses about race and gun deaths. By Shirley Carswell / Wash Post
I’m a black CEO. I’ve been discounted on Wall Street because of my skin color. By Eddie C Brown / Wash Post
Make Liberalism Great Again. By M. Steven Fish, Neil A. Abrams and Laila M. Aghaie / Slate
Trump’s White Version of History. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Young Black voters say they aren’t enthusiastic about a Joe Biden presidency. By Rebecca Morin / USA Today
Why U.S. Schools Are Still Segregated — And One Idea To Help Change That. By Alisa Chang and Jonaki Mehta / NPR
America is facing a reckoning over race, but we’ve seen this before. By Michael A. Fletcher / The Undefeated
America’s Enduring Caste System. By Isabel Wilkerson / NYT
The Case for Kamala Harris. By Susan Matthews / Slate
What if we treated Confederate symbols the way we treated the defeated Nazis? By John Semley / The Guardian
Where Do Black Journalists Go From Here? By Char Adams / New Republic
