Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 10) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Analysis: Obama and Trump intensify their battle over democracy. By Stephen Collinson / CNN
Featured Analysis: Obama and Trump intensify their battle over democracy. By Stephen Collinson / CNN
Featured ‘Nobody Wants White Kids to Feel Bad About Their Race.’ By Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic
Featured Jim Crow Killed Voting Rights for Generations. Now the GOP Is Repeating History. By Ari Berman / Mother Jones
Featured The Republican Party, Racial Hypocrisy, and the 1619 Project. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Featured The Party of White Grievance Has Never Cared About Democracy. By Steve Phillips / The Nation
Featured America’s right-wing political monsters are real — and they are coming for you. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured Let’s pause to mark ‘Brown v. Board of Education’ — and its lessons for our time. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Featured How to lose America: The death of democracy looks nearer than ever. By Elayne Clift / Salon
Featured Race and White Supremacy in American Policing: An Investigation. By Steve Volk / Rolling Stone
Featured Richard Wright’s Novel About Racist Police Violence Was Rejected in 1941; It Has Just Been Published. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Featured How civil rights attorney Ben Crump forged his own path. By AP and NBC News
Featured The ‘Mississippi Plan’ to keep Blacks from voting in 1890: ‘We came here to exclude the Negro.’ By Ronald G. Shafer / Wash Post
Featured Tucker Carlson, the Chauvin verdict and the burden of “white civilization.” By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured How to confront systemic racism? Heed the call of Martin Luther King. By Michael Gerson / Wash Post
Featured Chauvin Verdict: Convicted in the Killing of George Floyd. By David A. Graham / The Atlantic
Featured Minnesota Is One of the Best Places to Live in America. Unless You’re Black. By Samuel L. Myers Jr. / NYT
Featured Republicans are out of the mainstream on race. By William Saletan / Slate
Featured “Exterminate All the Brutes,” Reviewed: A Vast, Agonizing History of White Supremacy. By Richard Brody / The New Yorker
Featured If It’s Not Jim Crow, What Is It? Georgia’s new voting law has to be understood in its own peculiar historical context. By Jamelle Bouie…
Featured Don Lemon Breaks Down Sobbing During Cornel West’s Searing Commentary on George Floyd and Police Violence. By Tommy Christopher / Mediaite
Featured Don’t blame Facebook: How Fox News became the beating heart of the white nationalist movement. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Featured These two photos from the Georgia Capitol reveal what the state’s new voting law is all about. By John Blake / CNN
Featured The Capitol Riots and the Eternal Fantasy of a Racially Virtuous America. By Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw / The New Republic
Featured U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield gives powerful speech at U.N.: “I know the ugly face of racism.” By Pamela Falk / CBS News
Featured Inside the Biden Administration’s Battle Against Extremism. By Vera Bergengruen and W.J. Hennigan / Time
Featured Harry Breaks Free From the Racial Contract—and Pays the Price. By Kali Holloway / The Nation
Featured Joe Biden just launched the second war on poverty. By Dylan Matthews / Vox
Featured Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin brings experience dealing with racism, extremism to Pentagon. By Lisa Martinez / ABC News