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Losing sight, gaining awareness.

Frank Bruni's moving column on his going blind in last Sunday's New York Times : https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/opinion/eyesight-going-blind.html

Report: African Americans see no progress in 50 years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/02/26/report-no-progress-for-african-americans-on-homeownership-unemployment-and-incarceration-in-50-years/?utm_term=.bd46a8cc2c6b

The lunacy of arming teachers has one more layer: threatening Black and Latino kids.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/02/27/arming-teachers-would-put-black-and-latino-kids-in-danger/?utm_term=.005dcd970665

Supreme Court rejects right to a hearing for detained immigrants.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-throws-out-ruling-that-said-detained-immigrants-deserve-bond-hearings/2018/02/27/fa11f36a-1bd1-11e8-9de1-147dd2df3829_story.html?utm_term=.ce570e3ce376

One more disparity: post-prison challenges for queer women and women of color.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/01/24/how-post-prison-reentry-programs-fail-queer-women

The case of Odell Waller.

https://www.aaihs.org/gender-civil-rights-and-the-case-of-odell-waller/

A great blog for all things Latino: Latino Rebels.

http://www.latinorebels.com/

A heroine of the resistance: Joy Reid of MNSBC.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/style/joy-reid-msnbc.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

The Gifted Gap.

https://edexcellence.net/publications/is-there-a-gifted-gap

This is what inequality looks like: lost opportunities.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/opinion/lost-einsteins-innovation-inequality.html?emc=edit_ty_20180201&nl=opinion-today&nlid=62498336&te=1