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HUD Secretary Ben Carson to propose raising rent for low-income Americans receiving federal housing subsidies – Tracy Jan, Caitlin Dewey and Jeff Stein / Wash Post
Inside the Confidential N.F.L. Meeting to Discuss National Anthem Protests – Ken Belson and Mark Leibovich / NYT
Watching Cosby Fall (Victim or Victimizer) – Jasmine Sanders / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (April 26) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opens Thursday…
Where Can We Be Black? Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
The Last Poets, Rap Forefathers, Talk Black Lives Matter, Playing Basketball With Wu-Tang – Mosi Reeves / Rolling Stone
Confederate Memorial Day: when multiple states celebrate treason in defense of slavery – Jane Coaston / Vox
Race and football: why NFL owners are so scared of Colin Kaepernick – Sean Illing / Vox
The Selfless Servant Leadership of the African-American Women of the Civil-Rights Movement – Janet Dewart Bell / The Nation
The disparities in how black and white men die in gun violence, state by state – Jacqueline Howard / CNN
Listen – How America’s White Power Movement Coalesced After The Vietnam War – Terry Gross / NPR
New Federal Data Shows How Black Students Are Getting Pushed Out Of School – Rebecca Klein / HuffPost
The Strong and Stressed Black Woman – Inger E. Burnett-Zeigler / NYT
A Lynching Memorial. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It – Campbell Robertson / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (April 23) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – How Alabama could become ‘Ground Zero’ in renewed battle over Confederate symbols. Two competing narratives of the Civil War and the Southern Reconstruction…
When Calling the Police Is a Privilege – Adam Harris / The Atlantic
When white colleges make black students’ worlds smaller instead of bigger – Cassandra Jackson / Wash Post
Trump challenges Native Americans’ historical standing – Dan Diamond / Politico
Election 2018 Is Off to the Racists – Donna Minkowitz / The Nation
Is it a coincidence that Trump uses the language of white supremacy? Dana Milbank / Wash Post
Boehner Benefits From Weed. Blacks Are in Prison for Using It – Vincent M. Southerland and Johanna B. Steinberg / NYT
The History of White Power – Kathleen Belew / NYT
The Democrats’ Gentrification Problem – Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Galley Talk: ‘Ghost Boys’ by Jewell Parker Rhodes ( A Review) – Eugenia Vela / Pub Weekly
How Alabama could become ‘Ground Zero’ in renewed battle over Confederate symbols – John Sharp / AL.com
Race Inquiry Digest (April 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Was the Confederacy really defeated? Why America can’t stop fighting the Civil War. How can we reconcile the rise of Donald Trump with…
