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Race Inquiry Digest (August 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Trump Knows Exactly What He’s Doing. President Trump’s press conference was the clearest and most precise articulation of a view that Trump has…
‘A Treacherous President Stood in the Way’ – Frederick Douglass / The Atlantic 1866
I’m a black Southerner. I had to go abroad to see a statue celebrating black liberation – Samuel Sinyangwe / Vox
Symbols of the Confederacy still dot the South – Jeremu C.F. Lin and Lily Mihalik / Politico
Charlottesville and the Trouble with Civil War Hypotheticals – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Full Interview: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlottesville, Trump, the Confederacy, Reparations & More – Democracy Now
Eric Foner: White Nationalists, Neo-Confederates, and Donald Trump – Jon Wiener / The Nation
VICE’s Charlottesville documentary on Trump’s “fine people” will terrify you – Rachel Leah / Salon
The whole point of Confederate monuments is to celebrate white supremacy – Karen L. Cox / Wash Post
A Conversation With Native Americans on Race – Michele Stephenson and Brian Young / NYT
Trump Knows Exactly What He’s Doing – David A. Graham / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest (August 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Charlottesville and the Bigotocracy. The late, great Gore Vidal said that we live in “The United States of Amnesia.” Our fatal forgetfulness flares…
White Supremacy in the Age of Trump – Keri Leigh Merritt / Bill Moyers
This weekend’s Charlottesville rally represents an alliance between pro-Confederates and Nazis – Tara Isabella Burton / Vox
Trumpvangelicals are using faith to bring us to the brink of nuclear war – William Barber and Liz Theoharris / ThinkProgress
When Privatization Means Segregation: Setting the Record Straight on School Vouchers – Leo Casey / Dissent
Sorry, Mr. President: White people are not oppressed in America – Chauncey Devega / Salon
After Obama’s 2008 Win, Indiana GOP Added Early Voting in White Suburb, Cut It in Indianapolis – Mark Joseph Stern / Slate
Who’s benefiting from affirmative action? White men. – Jonathan Zimmerman / Wash Post
Stanford University course to study ‘abolishing whiteness’ – Matthew Stein / The College Fix
Why Are Police Officers More Dangerous Than Airplanes? – Pagan Kennedy / NYT
Charlottesville and the Bigotocracy – Michael Eric Dyson / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (August 10) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Short Documentary, Abbeville, is Released by the Equal Justice Initiative. The film follows community members committed to spreading the truth about the lynching…
How Russia Used Racism to Hack White Voters – Terrell Jermaine Starr / The Root
Kaepernick petition calling for NFL boycott is gaining steam, has 130K supporters – John Breech / CBS Sports
Kendrick Lamar: The Rolling Stone Interview: “The Greatest Rapper Alive” – Brian Hiatt / Rolling Stone
