Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 30) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Why Did Republicans Become So Extreme? By Paul Krugman / NYT
Featured Why Did Republicans Become So Extreme? By Paul Krugman / NYT
Featured The case against the Supreme Court of the United States. By Ian Millhiser / Vox
Featured Beyond Jan. 6: Trump’s mob violence is now the standard GOP model. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Featured Juneteenth, as much as the Fourth of July, is America’s true birthday. By Peniel E. Joseph / CNN
Featured Democracy in America is a rigged game. By Ian Millhiser / Vox
Featured When a White Republican Teen Invited a Black Pastor to Preach in His Hometown. By Julie Beck / The Atlantic
Featured There will be no gun control: For many white Americans, the idea of the gun is all they have left. By Chris Hedges /…
Featured Book banning in the US: The authors of color censors are trying to silence. By Eliott C. McLauglin / CNN
Featured The Arrow in America’s Heart. By Elizabeth Dias / NYT
Featured Cowardice is the point of white supremacy, too. By Damon Young / Wash Post Magazine White supremacy is, essentially, an ecosystem built around the…
Featured Buffalo Shows the Double Terror of Being Black. By Ibram X. Kendi / The Atlantic Structural racism killed Black people in east Buffalo, and…
Featured Poll: Black Americans Think Racism Is a “Major Threat” and Getting Worse. By Pema Levy / Mother Jones
Featured Expert panel on the Buffalo shooter and what he stands for: “He was not a lone gunman.” By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured “Thomasine & Bushrod” Is a Blaxploitation Western That You Need to Stream. By Richard Brody / The New Yorker
Featured We must fight powerful bullies, whether they are Putin, Trump, or tech billionaires. By Robert Reich / The Guardian
Featured Yet Again, A Judicial Counterrevolution Looks To Chain The Country To An Imagined Past. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
Featured The Supreme Court’s Abortion Decision Would Have Severe Implications for Black Americans. By Margo Snipe and Christina Carrega / Capital B
Featured Slavery reckoning requires confronting sexual exploitation of Black women. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post No probe into the corrosive effects of racial…
Featured Harvard Pledges $100 Million To Research, Atone For Role In Slavery. By Collin Binkley / HuffPost
Featured ‘Democracy will wither’: Barack Obama outlines perils of unregulated big tech in sweeping speech. By Kari Paul / The Guardian