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Frederick Douglass’s Vision for a Reborn America. By David W. Blight / The Atlantic
Brown is the New Black. In Trump’s America, African-Americans and Latinos have a new kind of solidarity. By Erin Aubry Kaplan / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Nov 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Stephen Miller’s Sinister Syllabus. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
‘Harriet’ breaks open what we know about slavery. By Lisa Woolfolk / CNN
The Legend of A-N-N-A: Revisiting and American Town Where Black People Weren’t Welcome After Dark. By Logan Jaffe / ProPublica
GI Bill opened doors to college for many vets, but politicians created a separate one for blacks. By Joseph Thompson / The Conversation
Hundreds March In Reenactment Of A Historic, But Long Forgotten Slave Rebellion. By Leila Fadel / NPR
They Are Racist; Some of Them Have Guns. Inside the White Supremacist Group Hiding in Plain Sight. By Carol Schaffer and Fritz Zimmermann / ProPublica
Don’t get suckered by the polls: Donald Trump will win again — unless we fight for democracy. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Black Lives MAGA: President launches Campaign Effort Called ‘Black Voices for Trump’ (of All Things) – In Atlanta (of All Places). By Karu F. Daniels / The Root
How Voters Turned Virginia From Deep Red to Solid Blue. By Sabrina Tavernise and Robert Gebeloff / NYT
Democratic wins come with a warning sign: Low African American voter turnout. By David Wasserman / NBC News
For black Americans moving to a new city, these are some of the worst places to settle. By Evan Comen / USA Today
How Latinos saved American cities. After whites fled and before the ‘creative class’ moved in, immigrants kept urban neighborhoods alive. By A.K. Sandoval-Strausz / Wash Post
Why the Bronx Burned. By Mrill Ingram / The Progressive
Kansas City voters choose to remove Martin Luther King Jr.’s name from a historic street. By David Williams / CNN
42 Texas Lawmakers Join Forces To Urge Governor to Halt Rodney Reed’s Execution. By Carla Herreria / HuffPost
Debt Is Holding Black Americans Hostage. By Edna Bonhomme / The Nation
Flint’s Children Suffer in Class After Years of Drinking the Lead-Poisoned Water. By Erica L. Green / NYT
Whitney Houston confidante Robyn Crawford confirms their queer relationship. By Trish Bendix / NBC News
Saeed Jones on “How We Fight For Our Lives” and writing with “skin in the game.” By D. Watkins / Salon
How Kim Kardashian West Came to Represent America. By Lauren Michele Jackson / Slate
Tiger Woods’ First Public Golf Course Is Awesome. By Larry Olmsted / Forbes
The ‘Lost Cause’ That Built Jim Crow. Southern “Redeemers” snuffed out the first black power movement. By Henry Louis Gates / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Nov 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Brown is the New Black. In Trump’s America, African-Americans and Latinos have a new kind of solidarity. By Erin Aubry Kaplan / NYT
Can White Graduates of Racist Schools Unlearn Hate? By David Beard / Mother Jones
