Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 31) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The NBA Wildcat Strike Is How a Revolution Starts. By Lester Spence / Mother Jones
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Anatomy of a Photograph: Authoritarianism in America. By Errol Morris / The Atlantic
At The DNC, Democrats Embraced The Civil Rights Movement To Explain Their Place In The Present. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
How to Dismantle White Supremacy. By Barbara Smith / The Nation
Wilkerson’s Caste examines quests to maintain power. By Leonard Pitts Jr / Miami Herald
Cornel West: Is America ‘even capable of treating the masses of Black people with decency and dignity’? By KK Ottesen / Wash Post
What is implicit bias? The invisible racism that hurts Black women at the doctor’s office. By Vidya Rao / Today
Civil rights protest, political demonstrations and fireworks: D.C. to host thousands amid coronavirus pandemic. By Marissa J. Lang / Wash Post
To narrow racial and economic disparities, Atlanta Fed chief Raphael Bostic is rethinking what the Fed’s mandate means. By Rachel Siegel / Wash Post
The Conservative Misdirection of the Affirmative Action Debate. By J. C. Pan / New Republic
Protestors Could Lose Voting Rights Under New Tennessee Law. By Ishena Robinson / The Root
Amid Debates About Memorials, Advocates Push To Remember Atlanta’s Forced Laborers. By Molly Samuel / NPR
The new Air Force chief wasn’t sure how to address George Floyd’s killing. Then he talked to his son. By Dan Lamothe / Wash Post
The Burden of Tim Scott. By Ben Terris / Wash Post Mag
The Black Freedom Struggle of the North. By Josua Clark Davis / AAIHS
Louisiana Supreme Court upholds Black man’s life sentence for stealing hedge clippers. By Kay Jones and Leah Asmelash / CNN
Lakers’ LeBron James talks Malcolm X and Donald Trump-Goodyear feud. By Mark Medina / USA Today
Here’s What Critics Are Saying About Tenet. By Marissa Martinelli / Slate
“A Change Is Gonna Come” Has a Long History in Politics. By Dan Adler / Vanity Fair
Barack Obama Delivers a Jeremiad. By David W. Blight / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Isabel Wilkerson, the author of “Caste,” speaks. An interview by Ezra Klein / Vox
Why women’s suffrage matters for Black people. By Angela P. Dodson / The Undefeated
2020 Is the Struggle Between Racial Liberalism and Racial Conservatism. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Donald Trump didn’t invent vote suppression — he’s just taking it to the next level. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
The Contours of Atlanta’s Policing Debate. Why most of the city’s Black council members shot down a proposal to defund the police. By George Chidi / The Intercept
“Racism may target Black people, but it damns a democracy and it damns humanity.” By Sean Illing / Vox
Residential segregation plays a role in coronavirus disparities, study finds. By Venessa Williams / Wash Post
