- At a San Francisco construction site, a noose was found on the 10th floor. There’s been graffiti with the N-word scrawled on the premises. And last Friday, in a first-floor bathroom, another discovery: dark-skinned Cabbage Patch dolls with nooses around their neck. KTVU
- An elementary school principal in Houston joked about telling police that a Black special-needs student brought a gun to the school. Huffington Post
- Barstow officers used racial slurs in shooting of unarmed black man. ABC 7
- White privilege. @ShaunKing
- Despite reports that hair searches by TSA would stop, Black women continue to feel targeted for hair pat-downs that “humiliate,” “violate,” and fuel damaging racial stereotypes. Cosmopolitan
- Ben Carson wants to triple rent for the poorest of the poor. New York Magazine
- Police’s shifting account of Black man’s death raises questions in Savannah. New York Times
- AUDIO: In 1945, Willie McGee was accused of raping a white woman. The all-white jury took less than three minutes to find him guilty. McGee was put to death in Mississippi’s traveling electric chair, and his execution was broadcast live by a local radio station. A newly discovered recording of that broadcast provides a chilling window into a lost episode of civil rights history. Radio Diaries
- Treasury Secretary Mnuchin still won’t commit to putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. CNN
- John Legend tweets about Trump. @johnlegend
- Teespring, a company that sells custom-made T-shirts and is backed by millions of dollars in venture capital, is selling at least three items of clothing appearing to celebrate Dylann Roof, the South Carolina man who gunned down nine black churchgoers in 2015. Newsweek
- Racist tweets by top NFL prospect Josh Allen emerge on draft day. The Guardian
- Jeff Sessions wants to make the Justice Department more like ICE. Huffington Post
- VIDEO: FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the humanitarian and economic crisis in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, examining how the federal response, Wall Street, and years of neglect have left the island struggling to survive. PBS
- Flying while Black and fat. Read the very disturbing thread. @AmberJPhillips
- The ugly truth of being a Black professor in America. The Chronicle of Higher Education
- A Virginia newspaper ran a Ku Klux Klan recruitment flyer in full on its front page. Newsweek
- Housekeepers and nannies have no protection from sexual harassment under federal law. Vox
- How lynching was used by whites to destroy competition from black business owners. LA Times
- Lynching memorial leaves some quietly seething: ‘Let sleeping dogs lie.’ The Guardian
- Neo-Nazis held a swastika burning following a white supremacist rally in the city of Newnan, Georgia. Time
- Republican Senate candidate, who has called for a country ‘free from Jews,’ could be Dianne Feinstein’s challenger. Newsweek
- The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that Texas’ current photo voter ID law sufficiently remedies discrimination against Black and Latino voters. The decision reverses a lower court order that blocked Texas from enforcing that law and an earlier iteration of it. NAACP LDF
- US attorney supports ICE arrest of Chinese immigrant in federal court. Boston Globe
- Districting is the inevitable fix for voting discrimination. Houma Today
- People who filmed high-profile videos of the police killings of Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, and others say they have faced retaliation and harassment. VICE
- Muslim woman shot and killed by police. @KhaledBeydoun
- A mentally ill man died after being hit 18 times with a Taser in his home. The police officers weren’t charged. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Alex Vitale on boarder policing. @avitale
- Chancellor Richard Carranza stands by his tweet of viral video in Upper West Side integration fight. Chalkbeat
AND NOW FOR SOME GOOD NEWS
Federal court rejects Trump administration’s bid to terminate DACA program.
Michael Brown’s mother, Lezley McSpadden, announces run for Ferguson City Council.
Voters overwhelmingly support felon voting rights amendment.
From Susie Tompkins Buell:
- Amnesty International honored former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick with its Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2018. ThinkProgress
- Water activist (and mother of four) LeeAnne Walters, who helped expose Flint’s toxic water crisis, was awarded a Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots environmental activism.KQED
- The Tennessee Legislature presented James Shaw Jr. with a resolution on Tuesday to honor him for his heroic actions. WKRN
- Thousands of Arizona teachers took to the streets to protest for better education funding. NBC News
- “I can only say one thing…that either you don’t read, and you are not sufficiently knowledgeable to speak to the subject, and that could well be — or you’re just afraid to speak, or you lack the courage to speak.” Civil rights leader Vel Phillips 1923-2018
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