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Cleveland’s Terrible Stain – Editorial Board / NYT
Tamir Rice and America’s Legal Crisis – Paul Brandeis Raushenbush / Huff Post
The Paranoid Style of American Policing – Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Atlantic
White Police are Killing Black Kids – Brittney Cooper / Salon
The Year When Students of Color Put Campuses on Notice – Jailyn Gladney / The Nation
2015: The Year in Race Relations – Tyler Bishop / The Atlantic
‘Concussion’ and the Serious Impact of Repeated Head Trauma – ABC News / You tube
I hear more parents telling me they won’t let their kids play until high school,” said Dustin Fink, an Illinois athletic trainer who blogs about…
It’s been devastating: Former NFL players count the cost of concussions – Rory Carroll / The Guardian
December 25, 1865: The Ku Klux Klan is Formed – Richard Kreitner / The Nation
We Have Lincoln Wrong : Our Greatest Lincoln Historian Explains – Harold Holzer and Norton Garfinkle / Salon
A disproportionate number of black victims in fatal traffic stops – Wesley Lowery / Wash Post
Choose Your Own Identity – Bonnie Tsui / NYT
Yellowface and racism against Asians is just as important as other prejudice – Carmen Fishwick / The Guardian
The New Attack on Hispanic Voting Rights – Jim Rutenberg / NYT
The Real Reason Sandra Bland Got Locked Up – Debbie Nathan / Salon
The thought of a white man in my chimney does not delight me – Kathleen Furin / Salon
Steph Curry, Fellow NBA Stars Call For End to Gun Violence – Marina Fang / Huff Post
The African American Newspaper (Voices of Freedom) – Patrick S. Washburn
In March of 1827 the nation’s first black newspaper appeared in New York City–to counter attacks on blacks by the city’s other papers. From this…
Rhetoric About Effects of Campus Carry on Minorities Mis-placed – Antonia Okafu / My Statesman / UT-Austin
Past Voices – Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
Marvin Gaye wrote “What’s Going On” to describe conditions in the 1960s and 70s. His words are just as relevant today. Happy Holidays. Listen here
CTE, The Obscure Brain Disease That Could End the NFL Gets the Hollywood Treatment – Lindsay Gibbs / Thinkprogress
In a Galaxy Far, Far Away From Comic Book Bigotry, Black and Queer Heroes Rule – Miles E. Johnson / Mother Jones
What I Learned This Semester at Yale (Students of Color are not Separatist…) – Daniel Judt / The Nation
Why It Matters That Serena Williams is on the Cover of Sports Illustrated – Michelle Garcia / Vox
Confederate Monuments Will Come Down in New Orleans – Kevin M. Levin / The Atlantic
