Race Inquiry Digest
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 25) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Jackie Robinson Made the Hall of Fame 60 Years Ago. His First Year in the Big Leagues Was Hell. By Ian Gordon / Mother…
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Legal Scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw: We Must Reclaim Critical Race Theory from Right-Wing Fearmongering / Democracy Now
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Jan. 6 hearings: A national civics lesson on the dangers of fascism. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Jan. 6 committee’s Bennie Thompson, a historic Black lawmaker, sees echoes of America’s ‘dark history.’ By Kyla Guilfoil / ABC News
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Patrick Lyoya’s Death Casts A Light On How Police Mishandle Traffic Stops. By Phillip Jackson / HuffPost
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 7) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Racism is still a big problem in the US, but this trend offers some hope. By John Blake / CNN
Race Inquiry Digest (July 4) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Supreme Court’s originalism is white supremacy. By Baynard Woods / NBC News
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 30) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Why Did Republicans Become So Extreme? By Paul Krugman / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The case against the Supreme Court of the United States. By Ian Millhiser / Vox
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 23) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Beyond Jan. 6: Trump’s mob violence is now the standard GOP model. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 20) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Juneteenth, as much as the Fourth of July, is America’s true birthday. By Peniel E. Joseph / CNN
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 16) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Democracy in America is a rigged game. By Ian Millhiser / Vox
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 13) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured When a White Republican Teen Invited a Black Pastor to Preach in His Hometown. By Julie Beck / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 9) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured There will be no gun control: For many white Americans, the idea of the gun is all they have left. By Chris Hedges /…
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 6) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Book banning in the US: The authors of color censors are trying to silence. By Eliott C. McLauglin / CNN
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 2) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Arrow in America’s Heart. By Elizabeth Dias / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (May 30) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Cowardice is the point of white supremacy, too. By Damon Young / Wash Post Magazine White supremacy is, essentially, an ecosystem built around the…
Race Inquiry Digest (May 26) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Buffalo Shows the Double Terror of Being Black. By Ibram X. Kendi / The Atlantic Structural racism killed Black people in east Buffalo, and…
Race Inquiry Digest (May 23) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Poll: Black Americans Think Racism Is a “Major Threat” and Getting Worse. By Pema Levy / Mother Jones
Race Inquiry Digest (May 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Expert panel on the Buffalo shooter and what he stands for: “He was not a lone gunman.” By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (May 16) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured “Thomasine & Bushrod” Is a Blaxploitation Western That You Need to Stream. By Richard Brody / The New Yorker
Race Inquiry Digest (May 12) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured We must fight powerful bullies, whether they are Putin, Trump, or tech billionaires. By Robert Reich / The Guardian
Race Inquiry Digest (May 9) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Yet Again, A Judicial Counterrevolution Looks To Chain The Country To An Imagined Past. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
Race Inquiry Digest (May 5) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Supreme Court’s Abortion Decision Would Have Severe Implications for Black Americans. By Margo Snipe and Christina Carrega / Capital B
Race Inquiry Digest (May 2) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Slavery reckoning requires confronting sexual exploitation of Black women. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post No probe into the corrosive effects of racial…
Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Harvard Pledges $100 Million To Research, Atone For Role In Slavery. By Collin Binkley / HuffPost
Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 25) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured ‘Democracy will wither’: Barack Obama outlines perils of unregulated big tech in sweeping speech. By Kari Paul / The Guardian