World
No, the BBC is not ‘blackwashing’ Troy: Fall of a City – Thomas Ling / Radiotimes
Winnie Mandela was always influential, often controversial, but vital to freedom’s cause – Sam Fulwood III / ThinkProgress
A black female politician was gunned down in Rio. Now she’s a global symbol – Anthony Faiola and Marina Lopez / Wash Post
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
