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Celebrating, and mourning, two beacons in the quest for racial equality – Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Watch the More Realistic More Depressing Alternative Ending of Get Out – Aisha Harris / Slate
Senate Moves Forward With Bipartisan Bill to Rein in Jeff Sessions – Tana Ganeva / Rolling Stone
White Tulsa Officer Is Acquitted in Fatal Shooting of Black Driver – Lucia Walinchus and Richard Perez-Pena / NYT
Richard Rothstein speaks With Ta-Nehisi Coates About Forgotten History of Residential Segregation / Slate
Race Inquiry Digest ( May 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Donald Trump’s Catastrophic Presidency Offers More Proof That Racism and Sexism Are Destroying America. This week’s Russian revelations are part of a larger pattern:…
America Needs a New Poor People’s Campaign – Rev. Dr. William J. Barber / CommonDreams
12 Features of White Working-Class Trump Voters Confirm Depressed and Traumatized Multitudes Voted for Him – Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
Philadelphia just set the national example in the fight against mass incarceration – German Lopez / Vox
A Story of Slavery in Modern America – Alex Tizon / The Atlantic
North Carolina’s “Monster” Voter Supression Law Is Dead – Mark Joseph Stern / Slate
Lessons On Race And Vouchers From Milwaukee – Claudio Sanchez / NPR
African American Government Scientist Crowned Miss USA – Rebecca Shapiro / Huff Post
Philadelphia sues Wells Fargo for allegedly discriminating against minority borrowers – Jonnelle Marte / Wash Post
Racial And Ethnic Disparities Persist In Sudden Infant Deaths – Katherine Hobson / NPR
Donald Trump’s Catastrophic Presidency Offers More Proof That Racism and Sexism Are Destroying America – Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (May 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Trump’s voter fraud commission is a shameless white power grab. There were only four documented cases of attempted voter fraud in the 2016…
Republicans plan massive cuts to programs for the poor – Richard Bade and Sarah Ferris / Politico
‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Sequel Gets Vibrant First Trailer – Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone
Open Love Letter To Bethune-Cookman 2017 Graduates From Black Faculty / Cassius
The Case for Black English : John McWhorter celebrates the dialect that has become an American lingua franca – Vinson Cunningham / New Yorker
Guess Who Sessions’s War On Drugs Will Target – Earl Ofari Hutchinson / Huff Post
Protests against removing Confederate monuments are not really about history – Christine Emba / Wash Post
‘Mama’s Bail Out Day’ Brings Black Moms Home From Jail for Mother’s Day – Sherri Williams / NBC
NFL Still Shunning Colin Kaepernick Because of His Politics, Not His Play – Bleacher Report / Mike Freeman
American Race : Someone thought it was a great idea to give Charles Barkley a four-part doc on race – Aisha Harris / Slate
