Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Inside the Biden Administration’s Battle Against Extremism. By Vera Bergengruen and W.J. Hennigan / Time
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
Featured The American Abyss. A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next. By Timothy Snyder / NYT
Featured Raphael Warnock’s Win Is One for the History Books. By Astead W. Herndon / NYT
Featured ‘Year of the Reveal’: Runoffs Follow Pandemic, Protests and a Test of Atlanta’s Promise. By Rick Rojas / NYT
Featured Can Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock Make History? By Timothy Pratt / The New Republic
Featured Black workers face two of the most lethal preexisting conditions for coronavirus—racism and economic inequality. By Elise Gould and Valerie Wilson / Economic Policy…
Featured Five Kwanzaa Celebrations Around the Country. By Nicole Taylor / NYT
Featured Exceptional Leaders of Color in Every Field of Endeavor are Changing America – Ambassador Reuben E. Brigety II, 17th Vice-Chancellor, The University of the…
Featured My church will replace our Black Lives Matter sign. Will America replace its racist myth? By William H. Lamar IV / Wash Post
Featured The Spiritual Tradition of Black Folk Finds Expression in the Candidacy of Raphael Warnock. By Otis Moss III / Wash Post