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Red Lines, Black Lives – How Housing Discrimination Created Inequality – Colin Gordon / Dissent
When Ta-Nehisi Coates’s made his influential “Case for Reparations” in the pages of the Atlantic in 2014, his focus, perhaps surprisingly, was not on slavery….
Indiana officials are trying to block almost 45,000 black citizens from voting – Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress
Harvard university has the largest endowment in the United States, but workers said they couldn’t pay basic living expenses – Emily Deruy / The Atlantic
In one corner of the law, minorities and women are often valued less – Kim Soffen / Wash Post
Donald Trump’s new Confederacy: At Gettysburg, he tried to evoke Lincoln’s address but ended reprising Pickett’s Charge – Chauncey Devega / Salon
The Most Astute Analysis of American Politics in 2016? SNL’s “Black Jeopardy!” Sketch. – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
Nat Turner – American Hero or Terrorist? – Village-Connect / You Tube Video – And a Discussion at Suffolk University by Three Documentary Filmmakers.
What are the distinctions between a freedom fighter and a terrorist? The debate over the meaning of Nat Turner’s slave rebellion has been at the…
Jorge Ramos Exposes Hate Groups’ Rise In The Age Of Trump – Carolina Moreno / Huff Post
WATCH: Killing the Trump within: White dudes, it’s time to summon your inner Skywalker! Baynard Woods / Salon
Every man — especially every white man — can identify with Trump’s misdeeds more than we’d like to admit . Remember that scene in “The…
Moonlight: Barry Jenkins’s beautiful, sympathetic film is one of the best of the year – Bill Leitch / New Republic
Here’s how to fight Trump’s ballot bullies – Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Then: “The extension of the franchise to black citizens was strongly resisted. Among others, the Ku Klux Klan . . . attempted to prevent the 15th Amendment…
5 Intriguing NBA Season Storylines That Don’t Involve Golden State, Cleveland – Steve McPherson / Rolling Stone
Singer Aaron Neville’s Rough Road to Salvation – Jacob Blickenstaff / Mother Jones
Poor white Americans’ current crisis shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country as off guard as it has – Alec Macgillis and Propublica / The Atlantic
Sometime during the past few years, the country started talking differently about white Americans of modest means. Early in the Obama era, the ennobling language…
We’re here, but we’re invisible’: Native Americans fight to vote on their reservations – Keri Lerner / ThinkProgress
Islamophobia Won’t End on Election Day (and It Didn’t Start With Trump) – Deepa Iyer / The Nation
Why should we trust you? Clinton’s big problem with young black Americans – Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor / The Guardian
‘Too Bad You’re Latin,’ But Sounds Familiar to African Americans – John Leguizamo / NYT
Will Trump Resurrect a Violent South? Hate groups are on the rise – Jon Jefferson / The Daily Beast
Hate groups are on the rise. Klan membership is increasing astronomically. In Trumped-up America, are we marching back to Bloody Sunday and Bombingham? As police…
How Kids Learn Prejudice – Katherine D. Kinzler / NYT Sunday Review
Donald Trump is the white boomers’ last gasp — believe it or not, the future looks brighter – David Masciotra / Salon
Past Voices – Why We Need A Posthumous Presidential Pardon For Marcus Garvey – Julius W. Garvey / Huff Post
Watch – The new civil rights march: resisting Alabama’s photo ID law – Dillon Hayes, Mae Ryan and Valerie Lapinski / The Guardian
Alabama is the home of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, designed to fight voter suppression. But since 2014, Alabama citizens have been required to present…
The triumph of Chuck Berry: At 90, the rock pioneer has a new album on the horizon – Scott Timberg / Salon
For young black activists, an urgent task: Persuading peers to vote – Venessa Williams / Wash Post
This Election Is Being Rigged—but Not by Democrats – Ari Berman / The Nation
