Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 22) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Trump Is Not Done With Us. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured “I didn’t know she was Black”: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump and skin-color racism. By Mohammad Ali Salih / Salon
New poll shows Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in three key swing states. By Sudiksha Kochi / USA Today
Racism Is Why Trump Is So Popular. By James Risen / The Intercept
Tim Walz and the Lessons of High-School Football. By Louisa Thomas / The New Yorker
Why JD Vance Is Unpopular and Project 2025 Has Gone Underground. By Jeet Heer / The Nation
Right-Wing Activists Are Challenging Tens Of Thousands Of Voter Registrations. By Matt Shuham / HuffPost
Americans want to rein in Supreme Court justices, poll finds. By Dan Morrison / USA Today
Sonya Massey’s death: Race, police, mental health collide in heartland. By Trevor Hughes, Michael Loria, N’dea Yancey-Bragg and Steven Spearie / USA Today
Black US voters’ economic priorities revealed in new advocacy agenda. By Melissa Hellmann / The Guardian
Sidestepping Deployed Kenyan Forces, Haiti Gangs Continue Reign of Terror. By David C. Adams and Andre Paultre / NYT
US, other leaders call for Israel and Hamas to hammer out cease-fire deal. By Michelle Stoddart / ABC News
Iran uses fake news sites to interfere in U.S. election, Microsoft says. By Joseph Menn / Wash Post
Venezuela shows democracies must rethink how to fight global autocracy. By the Editorial Board / Wash Post
Lessons from MLK for a contentious political season. By Daniel P. Horan / NCR
Progressive National Baptist Convention leaders hail Harris, pan Trump, urge voting. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Walz’s Brand Is More Left than Lutheran Among Minnesota Evangelicals. By Harvest Prude / CT
Choctaw Bibles Connect Christians with Native American Heritage. By Hannah McClellan / CT
Black hospitals vanished in the U.S. decades ago. Some communities have paid. By Lauren Sausser / NPR
Ferguson 10 Years Later: How Protests Gave Way to Politics and Policy. By Audra D. S. Burch / NYT
Black History Museum And Cultural Center Of Virginia Designated As A Historic Site. By Mary Spiller / Black Enterprise
Beyoncé Among Big Celebs Rumored to Boost Kamala Harris at DNC. By Mary Ann Akers and Matt Wilstein / Daily Beast
USA basketball wins Olympic gold behind KD, LeBron and Steph Curry. By Jeff Zillgitt / USA Today
U.S. outlasts France to win 8th straight women’s hoops gold. By Michael Voepel and Alexa Phillippou / ESPN
On the night Noah Lyles was to become a legend, he became a reminder. By Jerry Brewer / Wash Post
From Snoop to Flavor Flav and breaking, American hip-hop is winning the Paris Olympics.
Lots of medals. Lots of skin colors. See the connection? By Michele Norris / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Trump vs. Harris magnifies America’s generational and cultural divides. By Hannah Knowles and Dylan Wells / Wash Post