
- What the Supreme Court doesn’t get about racism. New York Times
- A Sacramento hospital parted ways with a nurse after she wrote on Facebook that Stephon Clark — an unarmed black man who was shot dead by police — “deserved it.” @yourrightscamp
- White House: Stephon Clark shooting probe best left ‘to local authorities’. The Hill
- Tweet by survivor of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. @Han_inthemirror
- America’s long history of exploiting migrant workers. The Atlantic
- Long-lost film that predicted rise of anti-Semitism has ominous message for today’s world. Washington Post
- Black Metal band defends ‘Nazi salute’. Twitter
- ICE paves way to detain more pregnant immigrants. CNN
- Blacks largely left out of high-paying jobs. AP
- Immigrants who accept almost any form of welfare or public benefit, even popular tax deductions, could be denied legal U.S. residency under a proposal awaiting approval by the Trump administration. Washington Post
- Woman arrested for stealing a salad now facing deportation. KIRO
- Tweet by Vanita Gupta. @vanitaguptaCR
- White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders lies about Census citizenship question. ThinkProgress
- Tennessee wants to use funding meant for poor families to kick people off Medicaid. CommonDreams
- A sanctuary church is all that is saving a Colorado woman from deportation to Mexico. Washington Post
- A Texas woman was sentenced to five years by a judge for illegally voting in 2016. Fort Worth Star-Telegram
- Black Marjory Stoneman Douglas students said they felt overlooked and underrepresented by both the media and their peers leading the charge for more gun control. Miami Herald
- Most Poles accept Jews as fellow citizens and neighbors, but a minority do not. Pew Research Center
- If Census asks about citizenship, some already have an answer: No comment. New York Times
- The first African American mayor of Pelahatchie, Miss., and Board of Aldermen in a power struggle. USA Today
- Conservative writer Kevin Williamson once said that women should be executed for having abortions and likened a Black child to a primate. The Atlantic just hired him. Slate
- The myth of the criminal immigrant. The Marshall Project
- Tweet by Kaivan Shroff. @KaivanShroff
- The sliming of David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez: How a campaign to discredit the Parkland survivors went from the right-wing fringe to the conservative mainstream. GQ
- Who’s to blame for a generation of angry white men? Dame Magazine
- The head of federal immigration enforcement in Northern California apologized for posting an image on social media that Muslim American groups say is offensive because it dehumanizes Muslim women. San Francisco Chronicle
- The bitter lie behind the Census’s citizenship question. Washington Post
- Tweet by Amir Whitaker. @DrKnuckyEsq
- The cop who killed Alton Sterling called him a “stupid mother**ker” after shooting him six times at point-blank range. Daily Beast
- Congressman allegedly used position to get partner’s son out of heroin bust. Fox News
- Tennessee has fined residents nearly $100,000, just for braiding hair. Forbes
- Tweet by Jamil Smith RE: Stephon Clark shooting. @JamilSmith
- Reconstruction: A Slate Academy. Slate
AND NOW FOR SOME GOOD NEWS
A Seattle elementary school sung the national anthem and two students took a knee while performing
DACA policy: Dreamers can pursue lawsuit against Trump’s ‘Bad Hombres’ bias
Hawaii committee calls for Obama statue in his birth state
Deported veteran leader Hector Barajas is ‘coming home’
20 Full Rides to Top Colleges: A Texas Student’s Perfect Sweep
African Moors were responsible for bringing Europe out of the dark ages
MORE GOOD NEWS, VICTORIES & HEROES
- Millions of people across the United States and around the world marched in “March for Our Lives” protests (800+) against gun violence. New York Times
- Watch children explain the #MarchForOurLives in their own words. Axios
- March for Our Lives rallies were held in all 50 states, including “red states” like Texas and Alabama. ThinkProgress
- MLK’s 9-year-old granddaughter Yolanda Renee King bravely spoke at the DC March For Our Lives — “I have a dream that enough is enough. And that this should be a gun-free world, period.” TIME
- Inspired by the Selma to Montgomery March, Wisconsin students marched 50 miles (from Madison to Janesville) to call out House Speaker Paul Ryan for consistently blocking common sense gun policies. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- HeadCount, a nonpartisan organization that promotes participation in democracy, registered more than 4,800 new voters at March for Our Lives events. CNN
- Bipartisan senators drafted a bill designed to shield Special Counsel Robert Mueller from being fired by trump. Politico
Continue reading the full list and more from Susie Tompkins Buell’s The Rising, here.
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