Opinion
Backlash : What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America by George Yancey
America is in the middle of a battle over the meaning of words like ‘diversity’ – Jennifer Mercieca / The Conversation
How Elite Schools Stay So White – Natasha Warikoo and Nadirah Farah Foley / NYT
The Republican Base Might Not Be As Scary As It Looks – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
Trump, ‘He’s Like a Rapper’ – Charles M. Blow / NYT
A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism – Katy Waldman / The New Yorker
‘Twice as good as them’ to get half what they have: Racism and the subpar presidency of Donald Trump – Kelly Macias / Daily Kos
Trump Is Not Putin’s Puppet. There’s a better explanation for his fondness for the Russian president – Conor Lynch / The New Republic
Donald Trump, King of the White People, bends the knee to a foreign tyrant – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Is Empathy the Essence of Soul Music? – Spencer Kornhaber / The Atlantic
White Supremacy and Vladimir Putin: They’re the same problem – D.J. McGuire / Moreperfectunion
“Democracy Dies in a Variety of Ways” – Isaac Chotiner / Slate
Trump’s Claim That Europe is ‘Losing Its Culture’ is Racism – And It Must be Challenged – Chris Allen / The Conversation
The Lesson of Emmett Till Has Been Ignored for Decades – Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
Does Brett Kavanaugh Spell the End of Voting Rights? Ari Berman / NYT
The Quiet Death of Racial Progress – David Brooks / NYT
White Fight – Donald Trump is leading the Republican charge to preserve a shrinking white majority – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
Donald Trump’s startling global agenda: Taking white supremacy worldwide – Chauncey Devega / Salon
America Started Over Once. Can We Do It Again? The Editorial Board / NYT
The fight against Trump is a battle for freedom – Dana Milbank / Wash Post
Abraham Lincoln’s Warning – Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic
Frederick Douglass and Donald Trump: Faint hope endures this Fourth of July – Chauncey Devega / Salon
What fuels “white anxiety”? The baffling hypocrisies behind white paranoia politics – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Charleston’s apology for slavery is just empty symbolism – Stacey Patton / Wash Post
How to Hold On to Hope – Jonathan Foiles / Slate
Mainstream media’s moral cowardice: Time for the Times (and everyone else) to stand against evil – Chauncey Devega / Salon
