Opinion
Traveling While Negro. By Cynthia Tucker / The Bitter Southerner
“We’re going to impeach the motherfucker.” Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) Lots Of Us Think Trump Is A Motherf**ker Who Should Be Impeached. Rashida Tlaib Just Said It Out Loud. By Michelangelo Signorile / HuffPost
Michelle Obama and Stacey Abrams, Models of Power for Black Women. By Susan Chira / NYT
Trump’s border wall was never just about security. It’s meant to remind all Latinos that we’re unwelcome. By Julio Ricardo Varela / NBC News
The Kernel of Human (or Rodent) Kindness. What we can learn from lab rats that don’t show empathy for other rats. By Henry James Garrett / NYT
White evangelical Christians need Jesus — not Donald Trump — if their movement is going to survive. By David B. Gowler / Salon
The Path to the Presidency Could Be Harder for White Democrats in 2020. By Jemelle Bouie / Slate
From 1968 to 2018: Angela Davis on Freedom Struggles Then and Now, and the Movements of the Future. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
We Are All Riders on the Same Planet. By Matthew Myer Boulton and Joseph Heithaus / NYT
Were black voters bamboozled by Russia? It’s nowhere near that simple. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
FIRST STEP Act must be a stepping stone to much more aggressive reform. By Inimai Chettiar and Ames Grawert / USA Today
Lebron Concludes NFL Owners Have a ‘Slave Mentality’, NFL Owners Dispute This Notion By Demonstrating Exactly That. By Jay Connor / The Root
It’s time to face the facts: Racism is a national security issue. By Gwen Ifill / Wash Post
Russia and Republicans attempt to suppress black vote, but Russians are slicker. By Joe Davidson / Wash Post
I’m for Affirmative Action. Can You Change My Mind? Gary Gutting / NYT
This is what an antiracist America would look like. How do we get there? Ibram X. Kendi / The Guardian
Bush Made Willie Horton an Issue in 1988, and the Racial Scars Are Still Fresh – Peter Baker / NYT
Sins of the Fathers: The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many Southern whites still believe otherwise? Paul Duggan / Wash Post
Facebook’s Diversity Problem, and Ours -Toure’ / The Daily Beast
America Is Racist. So What Do We Do Now? Activist Lawyer Bryan Stevenson Has Some Answers – Mary Kaye Schilling / Newsweek
The United States Is Becoming a Two-Tiered Country With Separate and Unequal Voting Laws – Ari Berman / Mother Jones
Mike Espy lost his Mississippi Senate bid. But the discussions about racism can change things for the better – Donna Ladd / NBC News
Cindy Hyde-Smith Is Teaching Us What Segregation Academies Taught Her – Noliwe Rooks / NYT
Black Republicans Are the Only GOP Officials Who Seem Bothered by Racism – Jemelle Bouie / Slate
Is History Being Too Kind to George H.W. Bush? – David Greenberg / Politico
Why racist politics appeals to white women, explained by American history – Anna North / Vox
