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Watch Cornel West on Donald Trump: This is What Neo-Fascism Looks Like – Democracy Now
President-elect Donald Trump has announced a handful of new Cabinet picks with deep ties to Wall Street. On Tuesday, he named Steven Mnuchin to be…
Black people are three times likelier to be killed in police chases – Thomas Frank / USA Today
FLINT, Mich. – James Thompson was the first to die. The 75-year-old Navy veteran had just taken four neighborhood boys for haircuts when an SUV…
Can Russell Westbrook Continue Historic Triple-Double Average ? Sean Stephens / Rolling Stone
What about the black working class? Tanzina Vega / CNN Money
Amid all of the talk about economic populism this election cycle, one group has been largely left out: working class Americans of color. The focus…
Watch humans go from a tiny group in Africa to 7 billion around the world, in 5 minutes – German Lopez / Vox
Black Americans choose life for Dylann Roof – Ellis Cose / USA Today
There’s Been An ‘Outbreak’ Of Nearly 900 Hate Incidents Since Trump’s Win – Christopher Mathias and Kate Abbey-Lambetz / Huff Post
Don Motley’s museum will keep Negro League baseball alive for black boys – Justice B. Hill / The Undefeated
Donald Trump has every reason to keep white people thinking about race – Dylan Matthews / Vox
Giving Toussaint Louverture the Great Man Treatment – Malcolm Harris / New Republic
Why was Haiti’s revolutionary overlooked by historians for so long? For nearly 80 years no scholar has written an English-language biography of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint…
Divisions in My Dorm Room ( New York University) – K.N. Pineda / NYT
Parallels to country’s racist past (during and after Reconstruction) haunt age of Obama – John Blake / CNN
A tall, caramel-complexioned man marched across the steps of the U.S. Capitol to be sworn into office as a jubilant crowd watched history being made….
How much could Trump’s education secretary damage public schools? Just look at Detroit – Casey Quinlan / ThinkProgress
Trump offers housing secretary job to man who wants to gut law banning housing discrimination – Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress
Jeff Sessions, Trump’s Pick for Attorney General, Is a Fierce Opponent of Civil Rights – Ari Berman / The Nation
You say “racist,” I say “white supremacist”: Sorry, Kevin Drum, “white supremacy” is a fact — not a “fad” – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Museum Cafeteria Serves Black History and a Bit of Comfort – Kim Severson / NYT
WASHINGTON — Chefs talk about pressure all the time: brutal shifts when the wait for a table is an hour long, an important critic is…
For Interracial Couples, Growing Acceptance, With Some Exceptions – Brooke Lea Foster / NYT
Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency – David Remnick / The New Yorker
The Populism Perplex : The Conundrum of the White Working Class – Paul Krugman / NYT
The 2016 Election Exposed Deep-Seated Racism. Where Do We Go From Here? Brandon Tensley, Michael C. Richardson and Rejane Frederick / Bill Moyers
This wasn’t an election. It was an exposure. That was a common thread of the 2016 Facing Race conference in Atlanta, Georgia, where more than 2,000 activists,…
The Black Middle Class Is About to Get Trumped – Lurie Daniel Favors / The Root
Everything we’ve been taught about “success” in this country and nearly every avenue we’ve used to achieve that success are now threatened by the same…
Black America and the Passing of Fidel Castro – Bill Fletcher, Jr. / Alternet
Dak Prescott is right on time — for Dallas and for America – Jason Reid / The Undefeated
Leaders are stoking human tendencies toward tribalism—but this instinct can be overcome more easily than once thought – James Hamblin / The Atlantic
Watch Emotional Trailer for Denzel Washington’s ‘Fences’ / Rolling Stone
Denzel Washington delivers what is forecasted as another Oscar-worthy performance in the upcoming Fences, the big-screen adaptation of August Wilson’s 1983 play that also marks…
The Tragic, Forgotten History of Black Military Veterans – Peter C. Baker / The New Yorker
In the week after the election, the Equal Justice Initiative, of Montgomery, Alabama, released a new report—a fifty-three-page addendum to last year’s “Lynching in America,” an…