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Topic: institutional racism

Lloyd Mills spent more than eight months of this year living in a small room at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. (Sam Whitehead/KFF Health News)

Georgians still being institutionalized

Sam Whitehead - KFF Health News
The memorial for George Floyd (Steel Brooks/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The racist roots of American policing

Connie Hassett-Walker - The Conversation
FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2014, file photo, the angel Moroni statue sits atop the Salt Lake Temple, at Temple Square, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Mormons confront a history of racism

Matthew Bowman - The Conversation
A member of the Ku Klux Klan in Hampton Bays, New York on November 22, 2016 (Getty/William Edwards)

White supremacy and Trump

KERI LEIGH MERRITT - BillMoyers.com
Laura Weidman Powers (Helena Price)

Structural racism in tech

Lauren Schiller
A gas station in Milwaukee, August 14, 2016. (Reuters/Aaron P. Bernstein)

Milwaukee unrest: No surprise

Chauncey DeVega
Marco Rubio (Credit: CNN)

Rubio: No solution to racism

Scott Eric Kaufman
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-69043p1.html'>Condor 36</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Christine Jun

Christine Jun

America's tough racial truth

Sean Illing
Rick Perry (AP/Kathy Willens)

Perry's lethal legacy

Luke Brinker
Bill O'Reilly and David Duke (Fox News)

O'Reilly vs. Duke

Luke Brinker

The right's vile Ferguson ploy

Elias Isquith
Rudy Giuliani (AP/Gerald Herbert)

Giuliani's disgusting new low

Luke Brinker
Charles Goodridge with his niece

Racism killed my cousin twice

Anand Jahi
Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia, John Roberts (Reuters/Brendan McDermid/AP/Larry Downing/photo collage by Salon)

SCOTUS' racial blind spot

Ronald J. Sheehy
Robbin Shipp

"The game is rigged"

Elias Isquith
Chuck Klosterman (Kris Drake)

Klosterman's shocking secret!

Katie McDonough
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-148374740/stock-photo-rear-view-of-policeman-in-uniform-standing-against-car.html?src=mUaL7K9AqznApA6j4J3bCQ-1-0'> bikeriderlondon </a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Katie McDonough
Michael Dunn (Reuters/Bob Mack)

Katie McDonough
(<a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-138331p1.html?cr=00&pl=edit-00">Chris Parypa Photography</a> / <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/?cr=00&pl=edit-00">Shutterstock.com</a>)

Katie McDonough
(Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

Katie McDonough
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