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Race Inquiry Digest (February 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Deepening ‘Racialization’ of American Politics. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Rediscovering the lives of the enslaved people who freed themselves. By Mary Niall Mitchell ,Joshua D. Rothman, Edward E. Baptist, Vanessa Holden and Hasan Kwame Jeffries / Wash Post
What we get wrong about the roots of slavery in America. By Eric Herschthal / Wash Post
Frederick Douglass’s Original New York Times Obituary From 1895
Trump keeps warning of a coup. But the only one in American history was a bloody, racist uprising. By Isaac Stanley-Becker / Wash Post
Why Are We Still Segregating Black History in February? By Christina Proenza-Coles / The Daily Beast
The Missing Black Millennial. By Reniqua Allen / The New Republic
New York City to Ban Discrimination Based on Hair. By Stacey Stowe / NYT
Black candidates know they have to be careful in talking about race. Here’s what the research suggests. By Christopher T. Stout / Wash Post
When Does Kicking Black People Off Juries Cross a Constitutional Line? By Adam Liptak / NYT
When black students are beaten in school — and black educators are to blame. By Stacey Patton / Wash Post
For a Black Mathematician, What It’s Like to Be the ‘Only One.’ By Amy Harmon / NYT
What it Really Means to Be Indian. By Mark Anthony Rolo / The Progressive
Race Inquiry Digest (February 25) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Democrats welcome an increasingly diverse America; Republicans aren’t so sure. By Matthew Yglesias / Vox
Equal-Opportunity Evil. By Rebecca Onion / Slate
A photo of a uniquely American racist act dominates the news, but my photo is an act of equality. By Lucian Truscott IV / Salon
How Virginia’s politicians can make a real difference on issues of race. By Mark J. Rozell / Wash Post
An editor and his newspaper helped build white supremacy in Georgia. By Kathy Roberts Forde / The Conversation
Meet Annie Turnbo Malone, the hair care entrepreneur Trump shouted out in his Black History Month proclamation. By Nadra Nittle / Vox
Supreme Court to decide if the Trump administration can rig the Census to favor white people. By Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress
Kaepernick Won. The NFL Lost. By Jemele Hill / The Atlantic
How capitalism reduced diversity to a brand. By Sean Nilling / Vox
Ocasio-Cortez Slams The ‘Racial Injustice’ Of The Cannabis Business As White Men Profit. By Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost
Racial Disparities In Cancer Incidence And Survival Rates Are Narrowing. By Patti Neighmond / NPR
Students Of Color Reflect On Surviving Parkland. By HuffPost Video
The black men of the Civil War were America’s original ‘dreamers.’ By Colbert King / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (February 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – What it Really Means to Be Indian. By Mark Anthony Rolo / The Progressive