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In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation. By Matthew Desmond / NYT
How to Be an Antiracist: Ibram X. Kendi. An Interview / Democracy Now
Citizen Brown: On the history of dispossession, disinvestment, and discrimination that formed the backdrop to the killing of Michael Brown. By Colin Gordon / Dissent
He sounded the alarm on “Hateland”: Daryl Johnson warned us about right-wing terror in 2009. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Misogyny and white supremacy: It’s time to fight both sources of vicious violence. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
El Paso, racism and rhetoric: The growing toll of bigotry in America. By Janell Ross and Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News
The Impact of Racism on Children’s Health. By Perri Klass / NYT
Why America still can’t face up to Trump’s racism. By Jess Row / CNN
Cory Booker Releases Plan To Combat White Supremacist Violence. By Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost
Stacey Abrams Is Not Running For President, Instead Will Focus On Voter Protection. By Shannon Van Sant / NPR
Barack Obama Drops Summer Reading List: These Books Are ‘Transcendent, All of Them.’ By Christina Zhao / Newsweek
More than 250,000 people sign a petition to rename Fifth Ave. in front of Trump Tower ‘Obama Avenue.’ By Katie Mettler / Wash Post
The Radical Blackness of Ebony Magazine. By Brent Staples / NYT
Jay-Z Helped the NFL Banish Colin Kaepernick. By Jemele Hill / The Atlantic
Simone Biles Has Changed Gymnastics Forever. By Rebecca Schuman / Slate
Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true. By Nicole Hannah-Jones / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (August 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The 1619 Project – American slavery began 400 years ago this month. This is referred to as the country’s original sin, but it…
A history of anti-Hispanic bigotry in the United States. By Marie Arana / Wash Post
This Is What Latinos Think Everyone Got Wrong About El Paso. By Adrian Carrasquillo / Politico
The Vital Importance of Learning to See Latinos in Trump’s America. By Graciela Mochkofsky / The New Yorker
Chicken Plants See Little Fallout From Immigration Raids. By Scott Horsley / NPR
Trump’s DOJ hid shocking report on growing terror threat from white supremacists. By Igor Derysh / Salon
It’s not just David Duke and the KKK anymore: It’s Tucker Carlson and Fox News Network who sell hate. By Lucian K Truscott IV / Salon
The danger of Trump’s pro-white hysteria — and what he means by “the destruction of our country.” By Dan Froomkin / Salon
A Reformed White Nationalist Says the Worst Is Yet to Come. By Yara Bayoumy and Kathy Gilsinan / The Atlantic
5 Years After Michael Brown Shooting, Slow Signs Of Progress. By Jason Rosenbaum / NPR
