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‘Hustlers’ And The Evolution Of Asian Sex Workers On-Screen. By Tiffany Diane Ts / HuffPost
Eddie Murphy Is Bringing Eddie Murphy Back. By Jason Zinoman / NYT
Overlooked No More: Robert Johnson, Bluesman Whose Life Was a Riddle. By Reggie Ugwu / NYT
Elaine Massacre: Federal troops escorting African Americans to the schoolhouse in Elaine, Ark; October 1919. By Christina Maxouris / CNN
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 3) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Historian Warns Today’s America Looks ‘Eerily Similar’ to Period Before the Civil War, Compares Movement Conservatives to Slaveholder Elite. By Shane Croucher /…
GOP racial gerrymandering mastermind participated in redistricting in more states than previously known, files reveal. By David Daley / The Intercept
Mississippi: African American voters sue over election law rooted in the state’s racist past. By Gideon Cohn-Postar / The Conversation
Chokwe Antar Lumumba: Being a Radical Means Getting to the Root Causes of Injustice. By John Nichols / The Nation
Clean, affordable drinking water is a racial issue. By Anna Clark / Wash Post
Watch White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation’s Divide. By Carol Anderson / YouTube
The arrest of a black six-year-old girl exposes the rotten heart of US policing. By Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian
Poll finds support for school busing to reduce segregation, but only among Democrats. By Llaura Meckler and Scott Clement / Wash Post
American Jews and American Muslims Have a Common Antagonist. By James Ron and Howard Lavine / NYT
43 Percent of White Students Harvard Admits Are Legacies, Jocks, or the Kids of Donors and Faculty. By Jordan Weissmann / Slate
All college students should take a mandatory course on black history and white privilege. By Emily Walton / USA Today
Hostile Environment For Black Workers Probed In Virginia Beach Shooting Investigation. By Sarah McCammon / NPR
Jacqueline Woodson Transformed Children’s Literature. Now She’s Writing for Herself. By Kat Chow / NYT
John Mitchell fought segregation at Alabama and made football history. By David Steele / The Undefeated
The Centrality of Whiteness in Modern Sports. By Jermaine Scott / AAIHS
Keeanaga-Yamahtta Taylor Says There Is No Housing Crisis: ” It’s Just Housing Under Capitalism. By Nawal Arjini / The Nation
Race Inquiry Digest (Sept 30) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Elaine Massacre: Federal troops escorting African Americans to the schoolhouse in Elaine, Ark; October 1919. By Christina Maxouris / CNN
Young Black Voters to Their Biden-Supporting Parents: ‘Is This Your King?’ By Astead W. Herndon / NYT
Warren shows how to integrate the fights against racial and economic inequality. By Ian Reifowitz / Daily Koz
By Striking for the Climate, We’re Striking Against Poverty and Racism Too. By William Barber and Liz Theoharis / Newsweek
Democrats Say They Want to End Mass Incarceration. There’s No Way They’ll Do What’s Needed to Get There. By Nathalie Baptiste / Mother Jones
Unilever’s Ads and the History of Sexual Abuse Under Slavery. By Thomas A. Foster / AAIHS
