News
Can this Confederate monument be redeemed? David Von Drehle / Wash Post
Sade’s Quiet Storm of Cool – Jacob Bernstein / NYT
James Madison’s Lessons in Racism – Noah Feldman / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (October 26) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr, a new civil rights leader takes center stage. The Rev Dr William Barber stands at the pulpit…
Watch Rigged : How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump – Ari Berman / Bill Moyers
Concerned about ‘identity extremists?’ There’s one in the White House – Stephen W. Thrasher / The Guardian
He Beat the KKK. Can He Convince Alabama to Reject Bigotry Again? Pema levy / Mother Jones
The U.S. military has a white nationalism problem – Luke Barnes / ThinkProgress
University History Departments Have a Race Problem – Josephine Livingstone / New Republic
When Race Tips the Scales in Plea Bargaining – Jenn Rolnick Borchetta and Alice Fontier / Slate
When Black Lives Mattered: Why Teach Reconstruction – Adam Sanchez / The Nation
Majority Of White Americans Say They Believe Whites Face Discrimination – Don Gonyea / NPR
‘Insulting African American Gold Star widows has a history’ – Derek Hawkins / Wash Post
Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr, a new civil rights leader takes center stage – Oliver laughland / The Guardian
Race Inquiry Digest (October 23) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – A fallen black soldier being disrespected? That’s not an aberration in America. The reported treatment of Sergeant La David Johnson’s family is part…
LeBron James on Race Relations, Donald Trump, Retirement – Sam Blum / Rolling Stone
A Mississippi Town Finally Desegregated Its Schools, 60 Years Late – Edwin Rios / Mother Jones
New short film explores colorism with pain, truth, and love – Kay Wicker / ThinkProgress
The History of Russian Involvement in America’s Race Wars – Julia Ioffe / The Atlantic
Obesity, Hunger: Two Sides of Same Coin in Black Food Deserts – Nareissa Smith / Atl Black Star
White supremacy’s global boom has anti-racist activists fighting back – Sophia A. McClennen / Salon
Our silent Civil War: Debate over statues didn’t come out of thin air – Edward L. Ayers / Salon
Bree Newsome Thinks Allies Should Be Protesting – Ana Marie Cox / NYT
Black Lives Matter Is Democracy in Action – Barbara Ransby / NYT
Watch: Lawrence O’Donnell Dismantles John Kelly’s Disgraceful New Defense of Donald Trump – Tom Boggioni / Raw Story
A fallen black soldier being disrespected? That’s not an aberration in America – Ameer Hasan Loggins / The Guardian
Race Inquiry Digest (October 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Values Voters Summit Props Up Our White-Supremacist Corporate Oligarchy. These Christian nationalists serve only the wealthiest Americans and take every opportunity to…