Race Inquiry Digest (May 23) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Rich white men rule America. How much longer will we tolerate that? By Nathan Robinson / The Guardian
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
“I Now Have the Perspective of Both Sides”: 18 Voting Officials Take Civil Rights Tour. By Jessica Huseman / ProPublica
‘He’s white, male and gay’: Buttigieg hits obstacles with black voters. By Daniel Strauss and Elena Schneider / Politico
The Complicity of Ben Carson. By Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
Alabama’s Abortion Bill Is Great News For White Supremacists. By Andy Campbell / HuffPost
Tackle white supremacy as terrorism, experts say. By Mallory Simon and Sara Sidner / CNN
Threat of violence against Jews in US at alarming levels. By Sara Sidner / CNN Video
A Visit to the Unfathomable Past of Auschwitz. By Ralph Blumenthal / NYT
How 1800s racism birthed Chinatown, Japantown and other ethnic enclaves. By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil / NBC News
How the War on Drugs Kept Black Men Out of College. By Tamara Gilkes Borr / The Atlantic
Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix series sheds light on the horrors of wrongful incarceration. By Janelle Richards, Michelle Cho and Kim Cornett / NBC News
The Intersection of Race and Blood. By Rose George / NYT
Slavery and the Family Tree. By Whitney Stewart / AAIHS
Documentary on the South’s first racially integrated Little League game in Orlando is on Netflix. By Annabelle Sikes / Orlando Weekly
HBO’s ‘What’s My Name’ expertly tells story of Muhammad Ali as fighter, thinker. By Richard Roeper / Chicago Sun Times
Before Jack Johnson or Jackie Robinson, there was Major Taylor. By Michael Kranish / The Undefeated
The Partly Obscured Brilliance of Stephen Curry. By Vinson Cunningham / The New Yorker
Joe Biden Is Going Back to the Clinton Playbook. The Democratic frontrunner’s campaign is pitched to white folks who have fled the party. Sound familiar? By Bob Moser / The New Republic
Race Inquiry Digest (May 20) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – 65 years since Brown v. Board of Ed, school segregation persists. By Janelle Richards, Rehema Ellis and Elissa Candiotti / NBC News
Mother’s Day: For Many Black and Indigenous Women, Motherhood is a Fight Against, Racism, Sexism, and Violence. By Roberta K. Timothy / The Conversation
Why Racial Gaps In Maternal Mortality Persist. By Patti Neighmond / NPR
HIV hits black women hardest, CDC report says. Shamard Charles / NPR
The promise of historic Brown v. Board school desegregation ruling is ‘at grave risk,’ report says. By Valerie Strauss / Wash Post
Baby Steps Toward Guaranteed Incomes and Racial Justice. By Courtney E. Martin / NYT
Opioid Addiction Drug Going Mostly To Whites, Even As Black Death Rate Rises. By Martha Bebinger / NPR
All-White Neighborhoods Are Dwindling as America Grows More Diverse. By Emily Badger, Quoctrung Bui and Robert Gebeloff / NYT
How advocates are writing Asian American stories back into history books. By Agnes Constante / NBC News
