Opinion
Appalachia Gets Special Funding. The Black Rural South Deserves It Too. By Greg Kaufman / The Nation
Is Black History Month still relevant? ‘Absolutely yes,’ one historian says. By Keith Harriston / NBC News
The Bloomberg Temptation. By Ross Douthat / NYT
I Can’t Believe Black People Might Actually Vote for Michael Bloomberg. By Michael Herriot / The Root
Martin Luther King Jr. On Making America Great Again. By Justin Rose / AAIHS
This Primary’s Real Loser Is Diversity. By Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
Why President Trump’s bid for the black vote is unlikely to bear fruit. By Charles Lane / Wash Post
‘Parasite’ Won, but Asian-Americans Are Still Losing. By Walter Chaw / NYT
Why Voting Discrimination Haunts America. By Jesse Wegman / NYT
The Simple Reason Trump Does What He Does. By David Leonhardt / NYT
The Racism at the Heart of Trump’s ‘Travel Ban.’ By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Racism and ecological injustice combine in ‘reckless, racist’ Atlantic Coast Pipeline fight. By The Rev. Dr. William Barber / NBC News
Resist false hope: America under Trump is in big trouble, and there’s no going back. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Did the Civil Rights Movement Go Wrong? By Jonathan Rauch / NYT
America, the Idea, Is Lost. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Trump, Guns, and White Fragility. By Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
Donald Trump and his demons: Why the assault on democracy will get worse. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
I spent MLK Day reading Stephen Miller’s racist emails. Here’s why. Chauncey DeVega / Salon
The Agitated M.L.K. I Came to Love. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Trump’s election was personal: It’s white America’s vicious backlash to black success. By Howard Bryant / Salon
Why Trump Persists. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Featured – ‘Just Mercy’ Attorney Asks U.S. To Reckon With Its Racist Past And Present. By Terry Gross / NPR
“Just Mercy”: Freeing an innocent man shouldn’t be this hard. By D. Watkins / Salon
The values preached by Martin Luther King Jr. need rediscovering in 2020. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Martin Luther King and the ‘polite’ racism of white liberals. By Jeanne Theoharris / Wash Post
Black Americans are deeply pessimistic about the country under Trump, whom more than 8 in 10 describe as ‘a racist,’ Post-Ipsos poll finds. By Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Vanessa Williams, Dan Balz and Scott Clement / Wash Post
