Update: The death toll from Monday's tornadoes is lower than originally reported. 

It's hard to avoid the conclusion that this White House has one way of addressing the social ills of black people -- and particularly black youths -- and another way of addressing everyone else, writes Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic.

"You know damned well that the Nobel Committee doesn't engage in such tradition," he says of the call for a posthumous conferment. 

One writer contemplates life after the days when "the apartheid system looked after whites and did very little for anyone else."