Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Polo Ralph Lauren Unveils HBCU Capsule Collection for Morehouse and Spelman Colleges. By Dan Heching / People
Featured Polo Ralph Lauren Unveils HBCU Capsule Collection for Morehouse and Spelman Colleges. By Dan Heching / People
Featured Putin and Trump have convinced me: I was wrong about the 21st century. By Robert Reich / The Guardian
Featured Fighting back against CRT panic: Educators organize around the threat to academic freedom. By Kathryn Joyce / Salon
Featured We Need a New Language for Talking About Race. By Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran / NYT
Featured How white supremacy fuels the Republican love affair with Vladimir Putin. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured Big majorities reject book bans – CBS News poll. By Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto / CBS News
Featured Bosnia, Ukraine and the dangers of ethnic nationalism. By Tom Mockaitis / The Hill
Featured The Dark Century. By David Brooks / NYT
Featured How Black families, torn apart during slavery, worked to find one another again. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
Featured The story of four Black NFL players who changed the face of the game. CBS News
Featured Donald Trump’s fantasies of racial violence reflect an all-too-real history. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured Whoopi Goldberg’s baffling claim forced many to ask tough questions about race and identity in the US. By Brandon Tensley / CNN
Featured Here are some of the notable passages in Brian Flores’ lawsuit against the NFL By Steve Almasy / CNN
Featured Is Slavery an Evil Beyond Measure? By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Featured When Whiteness Starts Seeing Itself. By Kali Holloway / The Nation
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