For Obama, an Evolving, Intensifying Focus on Racial Inequality

When President Barack Obama arrived in Poland early Friday morning, he did not retire to his hotel as scheduled ahead of the NATO summit. Instead, the American leader stood in front of a podium at the Warsaw Marriott and spoke for 16 minutes on the deaths of Alton Sperling in Lousiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota. “All of us as Americans should be troubled by the news. These are not isolated incidents. They are symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities that...

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