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Republicans’ racist 2022 playbook is the same one that lost them the House, Senate, and White House. By Kerry Eleveld / Daily Kos
Critical race theory battles are driving frustrated, exhausted educators out of their jobs. By Tyler Kingkade / NBC News
Robin DiAngelo Wants White Progressives to Look Inward. By Isaac Chotiner / The New Yorker
What 2021 is showing us about Black lives mattering. By Richard J. Reddick / CNN
The Violence of Latinx Erasure Starts With Undercounting Victims. By Robert Lovato / The Nation
Eric Adams’s Win Is a ‘Watershed Moment’ for Black Leaders in New York. By Katie Glueck and Jeffery C. Mays / NYT
25-year-long study of Black women links frequent use of lye-based hair relaxers to a higher risk of breast cancer. By Kimberly Bertrand / The Conversation
In an effort to combat rising Asian hate, Illinois requires schools to teach Asian American history. By Aysga Qamar / Daily Kos
Ada Wright, the Scottsboro Defense Campaign, and the Popular Front. By Ashley Everson / AAIHS
How a Harlem Skyrise Got Hijacked—and Forgotten. By Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts / The Nation
Black female WWII unit hoping to get congressional honor. By Michael Casey / AP and ABC News
What Thurgood Marshall Taught Me. By Stephen L. Carter / NYT
Stacey Abrams prods our constitutional imagination. By E.J. Dionne Jr / Wash Post
Anatomy of a shutout: Why the Emmys snub Beyoncé despite her continuing to innovate on TV. By Melanie McFarland / Salon
Shohei Ohtani’s double-duty feats are a reminder: The Negro Leagues are still overlooked. By Kevin B. Blackistone / Wash Post
Reggie Theus on taking the Bethune-Cookman job: ‘How can you pass that up?’ By Jean-Jacques Taylor / The Undefeated
Naomi Osaka Wins Best Female Athlete At ESPYS, Says Past Year Has Been ‘Really Tough.’ By Cole Delbyck / HuffPost
Olympian Allyson Felix Didn’t Let Motherhood Slow Her Down. By Sean Gregory / Time
Could genocide really happen here? Leading scholar says America is on “high alert.” By David Masciotra / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured We need Nelson Mandela’s example more than ever today. How the South African leader’s radical empathy can help the US today. By John Blake…