World News
DNA Tests on an Ancient Skeleton Reveal the First Briton Was Black, Not White – Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast
An African country reckons with its history of selling slaves – Kevin Sieff / Wash Post
Study reveals racial inequality in Mexico, disproving its “race-blind” rhetoric – Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga / The Conversation via Salon
The U.S. Virgin Islands clean up for the holidays – Andrea Sachs / The Wash Post
From Africa to the NFL – Sunni Khalid / The Undefeated
The French Origins of “You Will Not Replace Us” – Thomas Chatterton Williams / The New Yorker
The Guardian view on white nationalism: a rising danger – Editorial / The Guardian
When Jazz Age Superstar Josephine Baker Spied on the Nazis – Meredith Hindley / Daily Beast
The European Roots of the Alt-Right – George Hawley / Foreign Affairs
White supremacy’s global boom has anti-racist activists fighting back – Sophia A. McClennen / Salon
Myanmar Follows Global Pattern in How Ethnic Cleansing Begins – Amanda Taub / The Interpreter
Should Confederate monuments come down? Here’s what South Africa did after apartheid – Carolyn E. Holmes / Wash Post
Germany’s Memorials Show How to Remember an Ugly Past Without Glorifying It – Fred Kaplan / Slate
Why the lack of Indian and African faces in Dunkirk matters – Sunny Singh / The Guardian
An International Brotherhood of White Grievance – Jeet Heer / New Republic
The Racial and Religious Paranoia of Trump’s Warsaw Speech – Peter Beinart / The Atlantic
Brazil’s Ongoing Race Problem: Recent Study Uncovers Shocking Treatment of Darker-Skinned Children in Interracial Families – D. Amari Jackson / Atl Black Star
The United States may be about to inflict a massive hardship on Haiti – Editorial Board / Wash Post
How Black Lives Matter Went Global – Susie Armitage / Buzz Feed
2016 was the year Black Lives Matter went truly global. The US-born movement has spread as far as Brazil, South Africa, and Australia, where activists…
Lessons From Down-Under : Living With Racism in Australia – Alice Pung / NYT
MELBOURNE, Australia — My father survived the killing fields of Cambodia, where he was threatened with having his tongue cut out with a sickle for…
Extremists Turn to a Leader to Protect Western ( White Nationalism) Values: Vladimir Putin – Alan Feuer and Andrew Higgins / NYT
Watch humans go from a tiny group in Africa to 7 billion around the world, in 5 minutes – German Lopez / Vox
Black America and the Passing of Fidel Castro – Bill Fletcher, Jr. / Alternet
More black people jailed in England and Wales proportionally than in US – Randeep Ramesh / The Guardian
I see light in the darkness – a backlash against bigotry is under way – Natalie Nougayrede / The Guardian
The Dutch are slowly recognizing that their blackface tradition of Zwarte Piet is racist and weird – Ishaan Tharoor / Wash Post
