Opinion
An Electoral Vision for Black Lives – Deva Woodly / Dissent
Small banks discriminate against people of color. A new law makes it worse – Jacob W. Faber and Terri Friedlline / Wash Post
G.O.P. Wants Hungry Kids to Fund Tax Cuts – The Editorial Board / NYT
The GOP’s Racist Rot Began Long Before Trump – Goldie Taylor / The Daily Beast
Juneteenth: Freedom’s promise is still denied to thousands of blacks unable to make bail – Matthew Larson / The Conversation
Sessions Is Right That Separating Families Isn’t Like the Nazis. It’s Like Slave Owners – Ronald Radosh / The Daily Beast
Fall of the American Empire – Paul Krugman / NYT
The Racist Trope That Won’t Die – Brent Staples / NYT
How Much Can Democrats Count on Suburban Liberals? Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Why black women’s experiences of #MeToo are different – Yolonda Wilson / The Conversation
San Francisco’s First Black Female Mayor Defies the Liberal Litmus Test – Jamilah King / Mother Jones
#SummerReading: Recommended New Books on the Black Experience – Ibram X. Kendi / Black Perspectives
Bearing The Cross – Book Excerpt by Cornel West / The Crisis
A Radically Woke and Deeply Conservative Commencement Address – Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic
African-Americans and the Strains of the National Anthem – Brent Staples / NYT
A second American Civil War? Robert Reich / Salon
Donald Trump returns to race baiting as Republicans stumble toward the midterms – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
‘I Want to Hate’ – Charles M. Blow / NYT
Donald Trump’s empire of disorientation: Where the future is the past, made worse – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Are Americans a Broken People? Here’s Why We’ve Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression – Bruce Levine / AlterNet
The Philadelphia Eagles and “their President”: Trump’s act of potent symbolic racism – Chauncey Devega / Salon
For NFL players, social media is key to winning PR battle over anthem protests – Galen Clavio / The Conversation
The black unemployment rate just hit a record low, but there’s a catch – P.R. Lockhart / Vox
On Race: The Moral High Ground – Charles M. Blow / NYT
Why America needs a new approach to school desegregation – Jerry Rosiek / The Conversation
Why America needs truth and reconciliation after Trump – Kevin Baker / The Atlantic
