Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Minnesota Is One of the Best Places to Live in America. Unless You’re Black. By Samuel L. Myers Jr. / NYT
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
Featured Democrats Need H.R. 1 and the New VRA to Protect Voting Rights. By Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic
Featured The Incalculable Debt That America Owes Black People. By Bruce Bartlett / The New Republic
Featured The 150-Year Prosecution of White Supremacy. By Melissa Gira Grant / The New Republic
Featured In Netflix’s stirring “Amend,” stars anguish over the injustices that led to the 14th Amendment. By Melanie McFarland / Salon
Featured Republican Party is now a terrorist organization — and none of this is a surprise. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured The Way Out of America’s Zero-Sum Thinking on Race and Wealth. By Heather C. McGee / NYT
Featured Our democracy faced a near-death experience. Here’s how to revive it. By Stacey Abrams / Wash Post
Featured Republicans in three states are trying to ban the 1619 Project from schools. By Laura Clawson / Daily Kos
Featured Democracy or the white supremacist mob: which side is the Republican party on? By Richard Wolffe / The Guardian
Featured Republicans rally around a defeated Trump because they understand power. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Featured We need more ‘trauma-free Blackness.’ Here’s a start. By John Blake / CNN
Featured What is Reconstruction? The era offers lessons on white nationalism, Trump, and the Capitol riot. By Fabiola Cineas / Vox
Featured Joe Biden delivers one of the best inaugural addresses in memory. By Jennifer Rubin / Wash Post
Featured Joe Biden’s Looming War on White Supremacy. By Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic
Featured The Thoroughly Respectable Capitol Rioters. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic