NYTIMES (Adam Liptak) - In Blow to Voting Rights Act, Supreme Court Embraces Claim of Racial Progress
The majority said the law was a victim of its own success and no longer needed. Dissenters responded that Congress should make the call.
WASHINGTONPOST (Cleve R. Wootson Jr.) - In Black History Month, Trump casts racial progress as largely settled
The centennial of what became Black History Month offered a microcosm of President Donald Trump’s views on race and progress.
NPR (Debbie Elliott) - Civil rights leaders say the racial progress Jesse Jackson fought for is under threat
Activists say racial progress won by the Rev. Jesse Jackson is under threat, as a new generation of leaders works to preserve hard-fought civil rights gains.