Race Inquiry Digest (May 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – During World War II, the black press campaigned for a double victory – over tyranny abroad and segregation at home. By Dan C….
Featured – During World War II, the black press campaigned for a double victory – over tyranny abroad and segregation at home. By Dan C….
Featured – Harvard Researchers Find ‘Inequality On Top Of Inequality’ In COVID-19 Deaths. By James Doubek / NPR
Featured – Watch Trevor Noah Mock Fox News on Obama Commencement Speeches / You Tube
Featured – ‘Us Vs. Them’ In A Pandemic: Researchers Warn Divisions Could Get Dangerous. By Hannah Allam / NPR
Featured – We must confront the inconsistent laws that allow black lives to be taken with impunity. By Sherrilyn Ifill / Wash Post
Featured – The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Featured – Why Biden’s Choice of Running Mate Has Momentous Implications. By Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns / NYT
Featured – Watch “FDR Second Bill of Rights Speech Footage” on YouTube
Featured – ‘A Terrible Price’: The Deadly Racial Disparities of Covid-19 in America. By Linda Villarosa / NYT
Featured – Lessons in Self- Sufficiency. The Blacks of Pin Point Georgia. A Documentary Directed by Jeff Bednarz / You Tube
Featured – ‘Open the Economy’ Protesters Only Care About White Lives. By Michael Harriot / The Root
Featured – Straggling in a Good Economy, and Now Struggling in a Crisis. By Patricia Cohen / NYT
Featured – Stop Blaming Black People for Dying of the Coronavirus. By Ibram X. Kendi / The Atlantic
Featured – African American Scientist Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett leads the way on COVID-19 vaccine trials. By Janell Ross / NBC News
Featured – Three Important Interviews on Pandemic Racism. By Jeremy Scahill / The Intercept Podcast
Featured – Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate. By Akilah Johnson and Tahia Buford / Propublica
Featured – In 1918 and 2020, race colors America’s response to epidemics. By Soraya Nadia McDonald / The Undefeated
Featured – Rev. Joseph E. Lowery a Great American Preacher Died on Friday. His sermon,”Who’s Going to Bell the Cat,” is prophetic.
Featured – How the Pandemic Will End. By Ed Yong / The Atlantic
Featured – We Must Help One Another or Die. Let this crisis motivate us to see through the fog of fake individualism. By Jan-Werner Muller /…
Featured – As Coronavirus Deepens Inequality, Inequality Worsens Its Spread. By Max Fisher and Emma Bubola / NYT
Featured – Prayer Will Not Stop the Coronavirus. By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove / The Nation
Featured – Russia Trying to Stoke U.S. Racial Tensions Before Election, Officials Say. By Julian E. Barnes and Adam Goldman / NYT
Featured – Editor: RID veers into absurdity. Got a medical question? Ask Dr. Trump! By Dana Milbank / Wash Post
Feature – Excuse you, Iowa. Black voters flex for Biden in Democratic primary. By Brandon Tensley / CNN
Featured – How William Barber II Uses His Faith to Fight for Justice. By Mary C. Curtis / Time
Featured – Does Anyone Have a Clue About How to Fight Back Against Trump’s Racism? By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Featured – Where Might Trumpism Take Us? By Jamelle Bouie / NYT