Opinion
Reparations: Reasonable and Right. By Charles Blow / NYT
How reparations for American descendants of slavery could narrow the racial wealth divide. By William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen / NBC News
Juneteenth: Freedom’s promise is still denied to thousands of blacks unable to make bail. By Matthew Larson / The Conversation
This Death Row Lawyer Says Americans Won’t Be Free Until We Face Our Racist History. By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost
Black People’s Land Was Stolen. By Andrew W. Kahri / NYT
Reparations economics 101. By Bob Hennelly / Salon
Mitch McConnell is the second worst human being on the planet. By Lucian K. Truscott IV / Salon
Psychologist John Gartner: “Two years ago I compared Trump to Hitler. People didn’t believe me.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Joe Biden’s Racial Dog Whistle. By Matt Ford / The New Republic
It’s Juneteenth, and a White Nationalist Is President. By Barrett Holmes Pitner / Daily Beast
Jesse Jackson on Reparations: ‘We Are Due a Different Kind of Recognition.’ By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
Trump Is Changing the Shape of the Democratic Party, Too. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Four years ago this week: Trump’s escalator ride and the Charleston shooting. It’s not a coincidence. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Black Bodies, Green Spaces. By Tiya Miles / NYT
The real reason Trump won’t put Harriet Tubman on $20 bill. By Dorothy Brown / CNN
Reflections on African American Intellectual History. By Pero G Dagbovie / AAIHS
Why Clarence Thomas wrote over a dozen pages on eugenics. By Ariane de Vogue / CNN
Democrats can’t afford to ignore Asian American voters in 2020. By Lindy Li / NBC News
Robert Smith’s Real Gift to Morehouse. By Ibram X. Kendi / The Atlantic
Dear Candidates: Here Is What Black People Want. By Alicia Garza / NYT
Denial of racist history isn’t really in the past. It lives in the present, too. By Sam Fulwood III / ThinkProgress
Black Capitalism Won’t Save Us. By Aaron Ross Coleman / The Nation
LeBron James’s Partnership With Walmart Sparks Criticism. By Dave Zirin / The Nation
Hispanic Unemployment Has Hit Record Lows. But Does That Mean Progress? By Jasmine Garsd / NPR
Behind the Lines of America’s Educational Civil War. By David C. Bloomfield / The Daily Beast
An Imperfect SAT Adversity Score Is Better Than Just Ignoring Adversity. By Richard D. Kahlenberg / The Atlantic
Malcolm Nance: Mueller gave Trump a pass for “the greatest scandal in American history.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
What Reparations for Slavery Might Look Like in 2019. By Patricia Cohen / NYT
What Do Native Americans Want From a President? By David Montgomery / Wash Post
The Brown v. Board of Education case didn’t start how you think it did. By Charise Cheney / The Conversation
