Race Inquiry Digest (January 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Trump wants to remove these immigrants. An ugly bit of history tells us what it could do to the economy. Between 1929 and…
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Jaylen Brown: ‘Sport is a mechanism of control in America’ – Donna McRae / The Guardian
Under Trump, a Hard Test for Howard University – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Recy Taylor’s Truth – Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic
Our Fellow Americans – Frances Negron-Mutaner / Dissent
Monuments to White Supremacy – Brent Staples / NYT
Oprah: Prophet, Priestess … Queen? Ross Douthat / NYT
Supreme Court clerks are overwhelmingly white and male. Just like 20 years ago – Tony Mauro / USA Today
Sessions’ DOJ Charged A White Supremacist With Terrorism. They Just Didn’t Tell Anyone – Ryan J Reilly / HuffPost
Rev. William Barber: Trump is a Symptom of a Deeper Moral Malady Behind Racist, Xenophobic Policies – Democracy Now
Trump wants to remove these immigrants. An ugly bit of history tells us what it could do to the economy – Andrew Van Dam / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (January 8) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – As U.S. Becomes More Diverse, What Role Will Nonwhites Play In Furthering White Supremacy? Nikki Haley, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and former…
Lena Waithe’s ‘The Chi’ Is a Sublime Portrait of Black Life in Chicago – Ira Madison III / Daily Beast
Why Sessions’ Anti-Marijuana Agenda Is Racist – David S. Cohen / Rollling Stone
Trump administration to delay Obama rule combating housing segregation – Danielle McLean / ThinkProgress
Trump’s voting commission failed, but the GOP’s war on voting rights still threatens 2018 elections – Sam Fulwood III / ThinkProgress
Good news from today’s jobs report: The tight labor market is helping to reduce the racial unemployment gap – Jared Bernstein / Wash Post
Republicans Propose Statue to Black Confederate Soldiers. Yes, Really – Barrett Holmes Pitner / Daily Beast
How Medical Racism Created A Black Anti-Abortion Movement – Alanna Vagianos / HuffPost
For Native Americans, a Historic Moment on the Path to Power at the Ballot Box – Julie Turkewitz / NYT
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
As U.S. Becomes More Diverse, What Role Will Nonwhites Play In Furthering White Supremacy? David Love / Atl Black Star
Race Inquiry Digest (January 4) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – 4 Reasons for a surprising change in racial incarceration trendlines. It’s long been a given that racial disparities plague the nation’s criminal justice…
Trump’s Pick to Run 2020 Census Has Defended Racial Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression Laws – Ari Berman / Mother Jones
How Ella Mae Wray Seized the Opportunities of 1968 – Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic
Bridging black and white: How St. Louis residents are trying to surmount racial inequities post-Ferguson – Christa Case Bryant / CS Monitor
The Supreme Court’s Quiet Assault on Civil Rights – Lynn Adelman / Dissent
