Race in the US Today

Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifying on the alleged threat by "black identity extremist" groups, on Nov. 14, 2017. The relevant section starts at hour 2:12:40,

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"Bratton Says New York Police Officers Must Fight Bias"

New York Times

Feb. 24, 2015

  

"F.B.I. Director Speaks Out on Race and Police Bias"

New York Times

Feb. 12, 2015

 

Protesters Out to Reclaim King’s Legacy, but in Era That Defies Comparison 

NY Times, Jan. 17, 2015

 

What If Black America Were a Country?

The statistics reveal a fragile state within a superpower. 

Actor/Activist Jesse Williams on racism

Wealth Gap Widens Between Whites and Minorities

National Public Radio's Codeswitch blog

Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity

The Caging of America

By Adam Gopnik

The New Yorker magazine

Speech by Michelle Alexander, author The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Here's another one.

The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste

by Michelle Alexander

A Concise History of White-Black Relations in the USA in one cartoon

The Case for Reparations, by Ta-Nehisi Coates in the Atlantic Monthly

Interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of "The Case for Reparations, by Bill Moyers 

 

The Search for Racism

It grows more desperate and trivial. 

From The American Spectator

The Making of Ferguson: Public Policies at the Root of its Troubles

 

The Stages of What Happens When There’s Injustice Against Black People

 

The Perfect-Victim Pitfall 

Michael Brown, and Now Eric Garner

by Charles Blow, New York Times columnist

 

Killer cops, drone wars and the crisis of democracy

Americans have surrendered democracy and enslaved ourselves to illegitimate power. The consequences are murder.

From Salon.com