Race Inquiry Digest (Nov 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured How Music and Art Have Helped Black Americans Weather Troubling Times. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Let’s Not Lose Sight of Who Trump Is. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
What the 2024 election tells us about Trump’s voters. By Scott Clement, Emily Guskin Dan Keating, and Júlia Ledur / Wash Post
After Kamala Harris’ loss, Black voters ask what went wrong. Phillip M. Bailey and Michael Collins / USA Today
Elon Musk’s biggest campaign contribution to Trump: weaponizing the First Amendment. By Sabrina Haake / Salon
After election, racist texts nationwide threaten Black people with slavery. By Daniel Wu and Joseph Menn / Wash Post
Thousands expected for People’s March on Washington ahead of Trump’s inauguration. By Ellie Silverman / Wash Post
Outsized Growth at Nation’s HBCUs Sparks ‘Identity Crisis.’ By J. Brian Charles / The Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Smile, Flatter and Barter: How the World Is Prepping for Trump Part II. By Mark Landler, Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Marc Santora / NYT
Trump’s Win Ends a Post-World War II Era of U.S. Leadership. By David E. Sanger / NYT
With Trump’s Victory, Europe’s Populist Right Sees Return of a Fellow Believer. By Andrew Higgins / NYT
Haitian activists demand halt to deportations as gang violence and poverty soar. By Evens Sanon / AP
Trump’s win boosts chances of Netanyahu remaining in power until Israel’s 2026 elections. By Jason Burke / The Guardian
Trump in phone call advised Putin not to escalate in Ukraine. By Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk / Reuters
Why Americans Are So Awful to One Another. By David Brooks / The Atlantic
What Another Trump Presidency Means To Evangelicals Around the World. By CT Editors
As a Black Catholic, this election devastated me — but didn’t surprise me. By Alessandra Harris / NCR
Anxious, grieving, elated: Clergy prepare to preach into the post-election whirlwind. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
How pioneering Black liberals battled Thomas Jefferson’s “Dark Age.” By Paul Rosenberg / Salon
When a Multi-Racial Democracy Was Violently Overthrown in America. By Ed. Rampell / The Progressive
Revisiting the Harlem Renaissance. By Veronica Chambers / NYT
Maulana Karenga, Operational Unity, and the Black Power Movement. By M. Keith Claybrook, Jr / AAIHS
The life of R&B singer Luther Vandross spotlighted in new documentary. By LaShawn Hudson / WABE
Judith Jamison, Alvin Ailey Dancer of ‘Power and Radiance,’ Dies at 81. By Brian Seibert / NYT
After Trump win, sports will be a cultural battleground…again. By Mike Freeman / USA Today
Deion Sanders’s Colorado always had style. Now it also has substance. By Chuck Culpepper / Wash Post
Coco Gauff wins WTA Finals for the first time by rallying to beat Zheng Qinwen / CBS News
