Race Inquiry Digest (February 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – What it Really Means to Be Indian. By Mark Anthony Rolo / The Progressive
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Hollywood diversity has improved, study shows. By Andrew Pulver / The Guardian
The ‘Loyal Slave’ Photo That Explains the Northam Scandal. By Kevin M. Levin / The Atlantic
What Our Textbooks Get Wrong About Slavery. By Isaac Himmelman / HuffPost
Blocked from taking Confederate statues down, Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis try other ideas. By Nicquel Terry Ellis / USA Today
Striking Steel. By Imani Perry / The Progressive
North Carolina To Have Its First Black Woman As Supreme Court Chief Justice. By Kimberly Richards / HuffPost
Blackface is just a symptom of American medicine’s racist past. By Christopher D.E. / Wash Post
Black communities aren’t getting the mental health care they need. I’m helping to break the silence. By Taraji P. Henson / NBC News
For black children, there’s a rising need to create safe spaces to talk about trauma. By Christopher A. Daniel / NBC News
Pioneering Black Scientist Wins ‘Nobel Prize For The Environment.’ By Marlene Cimons / Huff Post
New York City Public Schools Should Be Evaluated Based on Diversity, Not Just Tests, Panel Says. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
Yes, politicians wore blackface. It used to be all-American ‘fun.’ By Rhae Lynn Barnes / Wash Post
A Virginia Historian Talks About Why White Supremacy “Must Die and Yet Will Not Die.” By Jacob Rosenberg / Mother Jones
Inside the Radical, Uncomfortable Movement to Reform White Supremacists. By Alyssa Schykar / Mother Jones
Spike Lee: Racism in the DNA of USA. By Christiane Amanpour / CNN World
James Comey: Take down the Confederate statues now. By James Comey / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (February 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The black men of the Civil War were America’s original ‘dreamers.’ By Colbert King / Wash Post
How Should Americans Tackle Anti-Semitism? By Emma Green / The Atlantic Video
The House Takes on America’s Voting-Rights Problem. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Democrats court rural Southern voters with Stacey Abrams’ State of the Union response. By Sharon Austin / The Conversation
‘Sir, I Never Thought I’d See the Day I’d Be Working for a Colored Officer.’ By Christopher Paul Wolfe / NYT
A Letter to My Niece. By Ariel Felton / The Progressive
How Frank Robinson’s baseball contributions went from underrated to historic. By Claire Smith / The Undefeated
What if the NBA were player-owned? ‘High Flying Bird’ imagines the ultimate disruption. By Kelley L. Carter / The Undefeated
How Trump Continues to Use Race as a Prop. By Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
Race Inquiry Digest (February 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – New York City Public Schools Should Be Evaluated Based on Diversity, Not Just Tests, Panel Says. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
