Race Inquiry Digest (Feb 1) – Important Current Stories On Race In America In
Featured Republicans rally around a defeated Trump because they understand power. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
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
Featured President Barack Obama Talks to Jesmyn Ward About A Promised Land / Vanity Fair
Featured Ijeoma Oluo’s ” Mediocre: The Dangerous legacy of White Male America.”
Featured Minority Rule Cannot Last in America. It Never Has. By Kenneth Owen / The Atlantic
Featured Is American Healing Even Possible? By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
Featured “Trump is Gone.” By The Comedy Quartet / YouTube
Featured A Blueprint for Racial Healing in the Biden Era. By Sheryll Cashin / Politico
Featured Racial Tension is Driving an Increase in Black Gun Ownership. By Melissa Chan / Time
Featured Once a symbol of desegregation, Ruby Bridges’ school now reflects another battle engulfing public education. By Connie L. Schaffer, Matha Graham Viator and Meg…
Featured America’s Two Souls. Ibram X. Kendi / The Atlantic
Featured The idea that “the country” is “deeply divided” is ludicrous. White people are divided. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
Featured Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On’ still relevant and revealing, 50 years on. By Brian McCollum / Detroit Free Press
Featured Morgan Freeman Spells Out Exactly What’s At Stake This Election. By Lee Moran / HuffPost
Featured Trump’s Army of Angry White Men. By Charles M. Blow / NYT