Race Inquiry Digest (September 20) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Are today’s white kids less racist than their grandparents? In America’s children, we often see hope for a better future, especially when it comes to…
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
The ongoing controversy around a black man killed by police in his own home, explained – P.R. Lockhart / Vox
Police killings, brutality damaging mental health of black community – Lisa H. Thyrau and Johanna Wald / USA Today
The Majestic, Rule-Breaking ‘Hale County’ Questions How We Observe Black Bodies – Natalia Winkelman / Daily Beast
San Francisco Removes Statue Of Native Man At Feet Of Colonizers – Camila Domonoske / NPR
Eyewitness to the Desolation of ‘Black Wall Street’ – Charles M. Blow / Wash Post
Maybe This Naomi Osaka Family Photo Will Get Reporters To Finally Stop Ignoring Her Black Heritage – Tonja Renee Stidhum / Blavity
Schools Have Committed to Hiring Teachers of Color. Now They Need to Keep Them – Rann Miller / TheProgressive
Before Asian Americans sued Harvard, the school once tried restricting the number of Jews – Ian Shapira / Wash Post
Stacey Abrams’ Identity Politics – Daniel Strauss / PoliticoMagazine
Defining Latino: Young people talk identity, belonging – NBC News
This is the most important thing you will do all year – Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (September 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – This is the most important thing you will do all year. The 2016 presidential election taught us the bitter consequences of not going…
Black Athletes Are Not Objects For Our Entertainment – Jessica Luther / HuffPost
‘The Star-Spangled Banner’s’ racist lyrics reflect its slave owner author, Francis Scott Key – Jamie Stiehm / The Undefeated
The Serena Williams cartoon, the Dallas shooting and the weapon of white femininity – Lonnie O’Neal / The Undefeated
NAACP Legal Defense Fund lays out Kavanaugh’s “extensive and troubling record” on civil rights – Rachel Leah / Salon
Does Teacher Diversity Matter in Student Learning? Claire Cain Miller / NYT
Can You Win an Election by Talking About Segregation? The next mayor of Chicago should find out – Natalie Y. Moore / NYT
Quincy Jones Has Accomplished So Much That Even Netflix’s New Doc About Him Can’t Capture It All – Jack Hamilton / Slate
Just Behind the Beat – A perfectly timed, well-tuned chronicle of the past, present, and future of jazz – Carl Wilson / Slate
Watch : African-Americans and home schooling: ‘A way of freedom’ / NBC News
Looking Our Racist History in the Eye : An exhibit about the civil rights movement in Nashville – Margaret Renkl / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (September 13) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Looking Our Racist History in the Eye. An exhibit about the civil rights movement in Nashville proves Faulkner was right: The past isn’t…
Affirmative Action Spectacle – Charles Blow / Wash Post
Black, progressive, insurgent: Is this the future of the Democratic Party? Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News
How a Democrat could finagle a win in Mississippi – George F. Will / Wash Post
