Race Inquiry Digest (Jan 24) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Black Mississippi senators protest bill to ban critical race theory. By AP and NPR
Featured Black Mississippi senators protest bill to ban critical race theory. By AP and NPR
Featured Failure on Voting Rights Would Be Historic. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Featured Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and Jan. 6 offer two competing visions for America. By John Blake / CNN
Featured American Democracy is Only 55 Years Old – And Hanging by a Thread. By Van R. Newkirk / The Atlantic Black civil-rights activists—and especially…
Featured Sidney Poitier Gave More Than He Was Given. By Samantha N. Sheppard / The Atlantic
Featured The riot, the republic and the fight for America’s soul. By Jonathan Allen / NBC News
Featured After a “Reckoning,” in 2021 America Looked Away From Racism. By Janell Ross / Time
Featured Why Covid Death Rates Are Rising for Some Groups. By Denise Lu and Albert Sun / NYT
Featured A New Origin Story: The 1619 Project. By Nikole Hannah Jones / NYT Magazine
Featured North Carolina Black Santas bringing diversity to Christmas. By Chris Lumsden / GMA
Featured What Does ‘White Freedom’ Really Mean? By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Featured Is America experiencing mass psychosis? By Nicole Karlis / Salon
Featured Can American democracy escape the doom loop? So far, the signs are not promising. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured Joe Louis’ decision to fight for the segregated Navy was deeply unpopular — until Pearl Harbor was bombed. By Randy Roberts / The Undefeated
Featured The Origins of Herschel Walker’s Complicated Views on Race. By Michael Kruse / Politico
Featured The Missing Voices In The Panic Over Critical Race Theory. By Melinda D. Anderson / HuffPost
Featured Unfinished History of Indigenous Slavery In America. By Kevin Waite / The Atlantic
Featured From ‘Fear of a Black Planet’ to ‘Fear of a Black Universe.’ By C. Brandon Ogbunu / The Undefeated
Featured Menace Enters the Republican Mainstream. By Lisa Lerer and Astead W. Herndon / NYT
Featured The 1619 Project and the Long Battle Over U.S. History. By Jake Silverstein / NYT
Featured White Racial Anxiety Strikes Again. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Featured American Psychological Association apologizes for contributing to systemic racism. By Nicole Chavez / CNN
Featured Virginia governor race highlights irony of banning ‘Beloved’ from schools. By Dana A. Williams / NBC News
Featured Jen Senko on how Fox News brainwashed her dad — and is now prepping its audience for fascism. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured Trump’s Big Lie is the new Lost Cause — and it may poison the country for decades. By Lucian K. Truscott IV / Salon
Featured Fascism or freedom? America is stuck in an ugly and dangerous in-between. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured How I Learned That Jesus Is Black. By Dante’ Stewart / NYT (Print by Stanley Rayfield)
Featured White America’s “hidden wound” threatens to destroy the country — and not for the first time. Kirk Swearingen / Salon