Opinion
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
Trump’s only campaign promise is to make bigotry safe again. By Eugene Robinson / Wash Post
White Voters Are Abandoning Trump. And they’re doing so for a surprising reason. By David A. Graham / The Atlantic
Yes, Even George Washington. Slavery was a cruel institution that can’t be excused by its era. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
What we can do now about Stone Mountain’s 150ft Confederate carving. By Ryan Gravel and Scott Morris / The Guardian
The Racism of “Ole Miss” Is Hiding in Plain Sight. By Becca Andrews / Mother Jones
Elijah McClain’s death is an unspeakable outrage. By Editorial Board / Wash Post
Five Big Ideas To Narrow The Racial Wealth Gap. By Jeff Kauflin and Janet Novack / Forbes
“I Could Easily Be George Floyd”: Wall Street’s Senior Black Banker Talks About Biggie and the Hope of BLM. By William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair
The case for Keisha Lance Bottoms for veep. By Christina Cauterucci / Slate
Trump has America staring down the barrel of a gun. By Leonard Pitts Jr. / Miami Herald
‘It Is Time for Reparations.’ By Nikole Hanna-Jones / NYT Magazine
Donald Trump or America? By Leonard Pitts / The Miami Herald
Black Lives Matter Wants to End Police Brutality. History Suggests It Will Go Much Further. By Jon Schwarz / The Intercept
South Carolina congressman Jim Clyburn: ‘If Biden doesn’t win, US democracy will crumble.’ By Daniel Strauss / The Guardian
What Charles Booker’s run tells us about the 2020 election. By Howard Fineman / Wash Post
How Congress Can Save Black Lives. By Cory Booker and Kamala Harris / Rolling Stone
How racism became the essential tool for maintaining a capitalist order. By Richard D. Wolff / Salon
You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument. By Caroline Randall Williams / NYT
Yes, the Freedmen’s Memorial uses racist imagery. But don’t tear it down. By David W. Blight / Wash Post
White identity in America is ideology, not biology. The history of ‘whiteness’ proves it. By Nell Irvin Painter / NBC News
