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Women of color in low-wage jobs are being overlooked in the #MeToo moment – P. R. Lockhart / Vox
How Grassroots Organizers Got Black Voters to the Polls in Alabama – Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic
Study reveals racial inequality in Mexico, disproving its “race-blind” rhetoric – Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga / The Conversation via Salon
White Christianity is in big trouble. And it’s its own biggest threat – Charles Mathewes / Wash Post
The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History – Holland Cotter / NYT
The Holiday Brilliance of Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” – Emily Lordi / The New Yorker
Race Inquiry Digest (December 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Sample The Best Jazz Albums of 2017 plus the best historical releases. Even as the world goes up in smoke, artists still make…
How the Seattle football team became the social justice warriors of the NFL – Tricia Romano / Rolling Stone
No One Is Talking About the Drug Crisis Killing Black People – Olivia Exstrum / Mother Jones
The past year of research has made it very clear: Trump won because of racial resentment – German Lopez / Vox
It’s still too easy to push blacks, minorities off of juries – Jeffrey Bellin / USA Today
Why 2017 was R&B’s return to glory – Rachel Leah / Salon
GOP Tax Bill Could Turn America Into World’s Most Unequal Society, UN Expert Warns – Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost
This video of jubilant students at a small-town Louisiana school inspired millions. Here’s why. Samantha Schmidt / Wash Post
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
Can Black Voters Turn the South Blue? Michelle Goldberg / NYT
The Best Jazz Albums of 2017 plus the best historical releases – Fred Kaplan / Slate
Race Inquiry Digest (December 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Black voters just saved America from Roy Moore. Exit polling around 6:00 p.m. EST showed that nearly 30 percent of voters at that…
Are LeBron James and Kyrie Irving Competing for MVP? Teddy Cutler / Newsweek
Reports of Voter Suppression Tactics Pour In From Alabama Election – Pema Levy / Mother Jones
Federal report finds regression for black managers in financial services industry – Joe Davidson / Wash Post
Native Americans Feel Invisible In U.S. Health Care System – Eric Whitney / NPR
A reporter who stood up to far worse than journalists get from Trump – Eugene Robinson / Wash Post
The White Supremacy Caucus – Michelle Goldberg / NYT
The U.S. Virgin Islands clean up for the holidays – Andrea Sachs / The Wash Post
Science has revealed how arbitrary racial categories are. Perhaps medicine will abandon them, too – Moises Velasquez-Manoff / NYT
Black Reconstruction in America,1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
In order to better understand the phenomenon of Trumpism and his supporters, we submit to our readers Du Bois’s analysis of the environment leading up to…