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How African-Americans disappeared from the Kentucky Derby. By Katherine Mooney / Salon
Miss America, Miss Teen USA and Miss USA Are All Black Women for the First Time. By Mihir Zaveri / NYT
Harry Shum Jr. On How Lack Of Asian Representation Hurt His Self-Perception. By Kemberly Yam / HuffPost
Giannis Antetokounmpo Is the Pride of a Greece That Shunned Him. By Peter S. Goodman / NYT
Jim Crow North: A New Book about Segregation and Struggle outside the South. By J.T. Roane / AAIHS
Race Inquiry Digest (May 9) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Russian Efforts to Exploit Racial Divisions in 2016 Found Firm Ground in U.S., Report Says. By Mihir Zaveri and Jacey Fortin / NYT
It’s time to talk about being white in America. By Jonathan M. Metzl / Wash Post
Coddling white nationalists has deadly consequences. By Jennifer Rubin / Wash Post
Why So Many Violent White Supremacists Aren’t Charged With Domestic Terrorism. By Samantha Michaels / Mother Jones
The Punisher skull: Unofficial logo of the white American death cult. By David Masciotra / Salon
Stacey Abrams won’t run for Senate. By James Arkin / Politico
What Ulysses S. Grant would tell Trump about Robert E. Lee. By Daniel Fried / Wash Post
Who Killed Atlanta’s Children? By Audra D. S. Burch / NYT
From Nigel Shelby to Zion Wade, America must protect Black queer children. By George Johnson / NBC News
John Singleton’s storytelling legacy will live on for generations to come. By Kelley L. Carter / The Undefeated
Antoine Fuqua lets Muhammad Ali tell his own story in HBO’s ‘What’s My Name.’ By Soraya Nadia McDonald / The Undefeated
Wynton Marsalis on 12 Essential Jazz Recordings. By Hank Shteamer / Rolling Stone
Damian Lillard Is the Coolest Player in the NBA. By Nick Greene / Slate
Race Inquiry Digest (May 6) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Jim Crow North: A New Book about Segregation and Struggle outside the South. By J.T. Roane / AAHS
‘I got a plan’: Elizabeth Warren takes on racial inequality with her policy proposals. MJ Lee and Kyung Lah / CNN
Democratic Candidates Pressed On Priorities By Women Of Color. By Scott Detrow / NPR
What Joe Biden Hasn’t Owned up to About Anita Hill. By Jane Mayer / The New Yorker
Selling Black and Brown Voters Down the River, One Fox News Town Hall at a Time. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
The return of Archie Bunker. By L. Benjamin Roisky / CNN
White identity politics is about more than racism. By Sean Illing / Vox
Tennessee’s Vengeful Lawmakers. By Cliff Albright / NYT
