Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 10) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – A new statue of Lincoln will adequately honor him alongside Black Americans. By Frank Smith / Wash Post
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation. By John Lewis / NYT
A Half-Century After Wallace, Trump Echoes the Politics of Division. By Peter Baker / NYT
The Right’s Increasingly Unhinged Fight Against Black Lives Matter. By Jake Bittle / New Republic
Why the Black Lives Matter movement should claim the 14th Amendment. By Brando Simeo Starkey / The Undefeated
San Francisco Proposes To Shift $120 Million From Police To Tackle Racial Disparities. By Maureen Pao / NPR
Is former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu a leader for this moment of racial reckoning? By Janell Ross / NBC News
The lies our textbooks told my generation of Virginians about slavery. By Bennett Minton / Wash Post
Asian Americans face dual challenges: Surging unemployment and racism. By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil and Kimmy Yam / NBC News
The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Intensified Systemic Economic Racism Against Black Americans. By Steven Greenhouse / The New Yorker
Will Herman Cain’s Death Change Republican Views on the Virus and Masks? By Jeremy W. Peters / NYT
Virus-Driven Push to Release Juvenile Detainees Leaves Black Youth Behind. By Erica L. Green / NYT
Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. on James Baldwin’s faith in America. By Sean Illing / Vox
MLB Commemorates The 100th Anniversary Of The Negro Leagues. By Doug Tribou / NPR
Removing monuments is the easy part. We must make America a real democracy. By Rev William Barber and Rev Bernice King / The Guardian
John Lewis remembered in his own words / NBC News
White Christian America Needs a Moral Awakening. By Robert P. Jones / The Atlantic
Politics at the point of a gun. Conservative armed groups move into politics as backlash builds against protests, stay-at-home orders. By Joshua Partlow / Wash Post
Why Cornel West is hopeful during the pandemic and anti-racism protests. By Sigal Samuel / Vox
We Should Have a Handle on This by Now.’ As Inner-City Neighborhoods See a Surge in Gun Violence. By Josiah Bates / Time
Urban planning as a tool of white supremacy – the other lesson from Minneapolis. By Julian Agyeman / The Conversation
Protesters Seeking Justice for Breonna Taylor Have to Convince a Mitch McConnell Protege. By Pema Levy / Mother Jones
Jaime Harrison is chasing Lindsey Graham like a cheetah running down an impala. By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post
Trevor Noah Takes Down Tom Cotton’s ‘Possibly Stupidest’ Slavery Argument. By Josephine Harvey / HuffPost
House votes to approve the creation of a National Latino Museum. By Patricia Guadalupe / NBC News
When it comes to congressional oversight of our military, the U.S. has a serious diversity problem. By Brian Greer / Wash Post
One Korean American’s Reckoning. By Alyssa Jeong Perry / NPR
