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Black Superheroes Matter: Why a ‘Black Panther’ Movie Is Revolutionary – Tre Johnson / Rolling Stone
New Documentary Blends Civil Rights Murders With Hunt for Blues Icons – Andy Greene / Rolling Stone
Bill Rhoden Talks to Jelani Cobb About Protest and Professional Sports / The New Yorker
Thelonious Monk’s Quiet, Slow Conquest of the World – David A. Graham / The Atlantic
Mississippi School Named After Jefferson Davis to be Renamed After Obama – Molly Olmstead / Slate
Trump’s Big Mouth May Have Given Colin Kaepernick a Case Against the NFL – Jeremy Stahl / Slate
How genetics undermines “scientific” arguments for racism – Adam Rutherford / Salon
Cold case no more: Police arrest 5 in ‘torturous’ 1983 slaying – Eliott C. McLauglin / CNN
The Values Voters Summit Props Up Our White-Supremacist Corporate Oligarchy – Rev. Dr. Willliam J. Barber / The Nation
Race Inquiry Digest (October 16) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – ‘Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law.’ Bill Moyers in conversation with author James Whitman about his…
How to Combat Racial Bias: Start in Childhood – Gail Heyman / The Conversation
R&B’s Changing Voice: How Hip-Hop Edged Grittier Singers Out of the Mainstream – Elias Light / Rolling Stone
The book that lies at the heart of white nationalist violence – Luke Barnes / ThinkProgress
Trump and Pence’s war on black athletes has nothing to do with sports – Chauncey Devega / Salon
The NFL Protesters Are Getting Their Message Across – Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost
Black Lawmakers Hold a Particular Grievance With Facebook: Racial Exploitation – Yamiche Alcindor / NYT
Muhammad Ali Was the Greatest but That’s Not the Whole Story – Ronald K. Fried / The Daily Beast
The Ancient Origins of Both Light and Dark Skin – Ed Yong / The Atlantic
‘Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law’ – Bill Moyers
The women who erected Confederate statues are stunningly silent – Peter Galuszka / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (October 12) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Watch when 20,000 American Nazis Descended Upon New York City. In 1939, the German American Bund organized a rally of 20,000 Nazi supporters…
Why Black-White Economic Disparities in a Very Progressive State Are Called the ‘Worst in the Country’ – Valerie Vande Panne / AlterNet
NFL players discover their power. Now how should they wield it? William C. Rhoden / The Undefeated
The new Thurgood ‘Marshall’ movie is a thrilling What-Had-Happened-Was – Kelley L. Carter / The Undefeated
Toni Morrison’s Radical Vision of Otherness – Nell Irvin Painter / New Republic
ESPN Is Terrified of Jemele Hill’s Honesty on Racism – Kashana Cauley / NYT
