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After MLK’s Death, Coretta Scott King Went To Memphis To Finish His Work – Debbie Elliott / NPR
Black And Latino Children Are Often Overlooked When It Comes To Autism – Casey Rentz / NPR
Walter Mondale: The Civil Rights Law We Ignored / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (April 9) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – King’s Death Gave Birth to Hip-Hop. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. led directly to hip-hop, an era of black American culture,…
Can it Happen Here? Review: Urgent studies in rise of authoritarian America – Charles Kaiser / The Guardian
Zora Neale Hurston: Black Feminist Icon and Thought Criminal – Gil Troy / The Daily Beast
Elgin Baylor holds back tears during statue ceremony – Jason Reid / The Undefeated
If taxes aren’t working, will desperate Republicans keep turning to race-based attacks? Tara Golshan / Vox
‘Implicit Bias’ Is Very Real and It Infects Every One of Us – Sally Kohn / Mother Jones
America’s Federally Financed Ghettos – The Editorial Board / NYT
Betsy DeVos shouldn’t roll back guidance on racial discipline disparities – Editorial Board / Wash Post
The Untapped Potential of the Asian Voter – Saahil Desai / Wash Monthly
A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law by Sherrilyn Ifill, Lorretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson and Anthony C. Thompson
A no-holds-barred, red-hot discussion of race in America today from some of the leading names in the field, including the bestselling author of Just Mercy,…
King’s Death Gave Birth to Hip-Hop – Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest (April 5) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – ‘The Blood of Lynching Victims Is in This Soil.’ By preserving soil from sites where blacks died from lynchings, a museum aims to help…
Barack Obama Sits Down With John Lewis to Discuss MLK’s Legacy and the Power of Activism – Inae Oh / Mother Jones
Winnie Mandela was always influential, often controversial, but vital to freedom’s cause – Sam Fulwood III / ThinkProgress
‘Martin Luther King Jr.’s Unfinished Work on Earth Must Truly Be Our Own’ – Benjamin E. Mays / The Atlantic
Secret use of census info helped send Japanese Americans to internment camps in WWII – Lori Aratani / Wash Post
Stephon Clark: Rhythms of Tragedy – Charles M. Blow / NYT
Chicago sees drop in killings and shootings for 13 consecutive months – Brad Parks and Darran Simon / CNN
Searching For A Motherland As A Black Latina – Maria V. Luna / HuffPost
Integration Now, Integration Forever – David Brooks / NYT
Listening to Miles Davis and John Coltrane’s Final Tour – Richard Brody / The New Yorker
‘The Blood of Lynching Victims Is in This Soil.’- Katie Couric / Natl Geographic
Race Inquiry Digest (April 2) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – We Forgot What Dr. King Believed In. Dr. King passionately believed that a commitment to God is a commitment to bettering humanity, that…
