Race Inquiry Digest (Nov 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Colin Kaepernick’s NFL workout was a debacle because teams care about profits, not winning games. By Dave Schilling / NBC News
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Eastern Europe is headed toward a demographic crisis: A forerunner for the US. By Charles Lane / Wash Post
Opinion: What slavery can teach Supreme Court justices about DACA. By Jamal Greene and Elora Mukherjee / LA Times
Hard evidence that Stephen Miller is a white nationalist — and why that isn’t “old news.” By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Hate Crime Murders Reach Historic High, According To New FBI Report. By Rowaida Abdelaziz / HuffPost
Police violence is a health crisis for Black families. Marquis Jefferson is the latest to die of a broken heart. By Nylah Burton / Vox
Recessions Are Racist (But They Don’t Have to Be). By Aaron Ross Coleman / The Nation
Fighting antisemitism is at the heart of the left’s struggle against oppression. By Bernie Sanders / The Guardian
Cory Booker: ‘This is why I fight.’ By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post Podcast
Elijah Cummings’ Widow Announces She’s Running For His U.S. House Seat. By Brakkton Booker / NPR
You know about the Underground Railroad. But what about the Reverse Underground Railroad? By Richard Bell / Wash Post
The Enduring Battle to Diversify Historical Reenactment. By Nick Martin / The New Republic
Why Edward Norton Moved ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ To The New York Of Robert Moses. By Mary Louise Kelly
Kaiser Permanente CEO Bernard Tyson Has Died. The Lessons He Left Behind Are Worth Remembering. By Clifton Leaf / Fortune
The Complicated Significance Of Tyler Perry. By Taryn Finley / HuffPost
Frederick Douglass’s Vision for a Reborn America. By David W. Blight / The Atlantic
Brown is the New Black. In Trump’s America, African-Americans and Latinos have a new kind of solidarity. By Erin Aubry Kaplan / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Nov 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Stephen Miller’s Sinister Syllabus. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
‘Harriet’ breaks open what we know about slavery. By Lisa Woolfolk / CNN
The Legend of A-N-N-A: Revisiting and American Town Where Black People Weren’t Welcome After Dark. By Logan Jaffe / ProPublica
GI Bill opened doors to college for many vets, but politicians created a separate one for blacks. By Joseph Thompson / The Conversation
Hundreds March In Reenactment Of A Historic, But Long Forgotten Slave Rebellion. By Leila Fadel / NPR
They Are Racist; Some of Them Have Guns. Inside the White Supremacist Group Hiding in Plain Sight. By Carol Schaffer and Fritz Zimmermann / ProPublica
Don’t get suckered by the polls: Donald Trump will win again — unless we fight for democracy. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Black Lives MAGA: President launches Campaign Effort Called ‘Black Voices for Trump’ (of All Things) – In Atlanta (of All Places). By Karu F. Daniels / The Root
How Voters Turned Virginia From Deep Red to Solid Blue. By Sabrina Tavernise and Robert Gebeloff / NYT
Democratic wins come with a warning sign: Low African American voter turnout. By David Wasserman / NBC News
