Race Inquiry Digest (June 24) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Richard Wright discovers Joe Louis’ dynamite. By Randy Roberts / The Undefeated
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
After Oprah’s Central Park Five interview, you realize that a $41 million settlement will never be enough. By Ernest Owens / The Grio
House To Hold Reparations Hearing With Testimony From Ta-Nehisi Coates. By Errin Haines Whack / AP
Maryland has created a truth commission on lynchings – can it deliver? By Kelebogile Zvobogo / The Conversation
Report: Hundreds of Police Officers Belong to Racist Facebook Groups. By Michael Harriot / The Root
Racist Laws Took the Vote Away From Prisoners. After Serving Time, One Man Is Fighting to Give It Back to Them. By Samantha Michaels / Mother Jones
More and more workplace discrimination cases are being closed before they’re even investigated. By Maryam Jameel / Vox
New foreclosure crisis hitting after shady lenders targeted black seniors for reverse mortgages. By Laura Clawson / Daily Kos
Black Bodies, Green Spaces. By Tiya Miles / NYT
Elizabeth Warren’s New Plan to Close the Racial Wealth Gap. By Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
Hip-Hop’s Next Billionaires: Richest Rappers 2019. By Zack O’Malley Greenburg / Forbes
The real reason Trump won’t put Harriet Tubman on $20 bill. By Dorothy Brown / CNN
A former slave who was the first black Catholic priest takes a step toward sainthood. By Daniel Burke / CNN
Reflections on African American Intellectual History. By Pero G Dagbovie / AAIHS
23% of young black women now identify as bisexual. By Tristan Bridges and Mignon R. Moore / The Conversation
‘Furious Hours’ By Cacey Cep. A Review By Stephen Phillips / LA Times
‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’ is an elegy to home and family, destroyed by gentrification. By Syreeta McFadden / NBC News
‘Shaft’ Made Richard Roundtree a Star. But Store Clerks Still Tailed Him. By Reggie Ugwu / NYT
Kevin Durant and the dehumanization of black athletes. By Martenzie Johnson / The Undefeated
Which shooting star will join Lakers with Anthony Davis: Kyrie, Kemba or who? By Dan Woike / LA Times
‘When They See Us’ exposes a legacy of hatred aimed at black men. By Ken Makin / The Undefeated
Race Inquiry Digest (June 20) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Four years ago this week: Trump’s escalator ride and the Charleston shooting. It’s not a coincidence. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (June 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – ‘When They See Us’ exposes a legacy of hatred aimed at black men. By Ken Makin / The Undefeated
The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
Racial Terror and the Second Repeal of Reconstruction. By Kimberle Williams Crenshaw / The New Republic
The Indian Law That Helps Build Walls. By Maggie Blackhawk / NYT
Why Clarence Thomas wrote over a dozen pages on eugenics. By Ariane de Vogue / CNN
