Opinion
‘Sir, I Never Thought I’d See the Day I’d Be Working for a Colored Officer.’ By Christopher Paul Wolfe / NYT
A Letter to My Niece. By Ariel Felton / The Progressive
How Trump Continues to Use Race as a Prop. By Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
The Empty Quarters of U.S. Politics. By Paul Krugman / NYT
Black America Knows White Avengers Like Liam Neeson All Too Well. Roland S. Martin / The Daily Beast
State of the Union 2019: A Stacey Abrams essay you should read. By Zack Beauchamp / Vox
Policies that harm black bodies deserve the same outrage as blackface. By Shanita Hubbard / The Guardian
It’s not that Tom Brokaw is racist. It’s that he’s wrong. By Isaac Bailey / CNN
Ignorance about the Holocaust is growing. By Harry D. Wall / CNN
Social justice, unspoken truths, and Bradley Cooper: inside Kamala Harris’s book. By Lois Beckett / The Guardian
Closing the Gulf Between Black and White Christians. By Emma Green / The Atlantic
Patriotic or racist? Trump’s Make America Great Again hats have become a hot-button issue. By Kristen Jordan Shamus / Detroit Free Press
Trump’s Wall of Shame. It would stand as a lasting reminder of the white racial hostility surging through this moment in American history. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Most young white men are much more open to diversity than older generations. By Phillip Bump / Wash Post
Native American Leader: ‘A Wall Is Not The Answer.’ By David Greene and Ashley Westerman / NPR
Two years after Trump asked black voters what they have to lose, the answer is clear: Plenty. By Sam Fulwood III / Thinkprogress
Nathan Phillips and the boys from Covington: What does this ugly encounter say about America? By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Martin Luther King Jr. would be outraged. By Colbert King / Wash Post
The Disturbing, Surprisingly Complex Relationship Between White Identity Politics and Racism. By Isaac Chotiner / The New Yorker
Bryan Stevenson Wants the U.S. to Face Its History. Interview by Jamie Lowe / NYT
The GOP distanced itself from Steve King. Is it signaling a shift on Trump? By Geoffrey Kabaservice / Wash Post
The MAGA Teenager Who Harassed a Native American Veteran Is Still Unnamed, but We’ve Seen His Face Before. By Ruth Graham / Slate
A new Supreme Court is poised to take a chunk out of MLK’s legacy. By John Blake / CNN
Trump doesn’t want a wall, all he wants is an issue. By Lucian K. Truscott IV / Salon
Donald Trump: Racist liar, or just a liar who happens to be a racist? By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
The GOP must stamp out the seeds of hatred before it’s too late. Henry Olsen / Wash Post
