Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 20) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Michelle Obama’s Unmatched Call to Action at the Democratic National Convention. By Doreen St. Felix / The New Yorker
Featured – Michelle Obama’s Unmatched Call to Action at the Democratic National Convention. By Doreen St. Felix / The New Yorker
Featured -Fear of a Black Uprising. Confronting the white pathologies that shape racist policing. By Kimberle’ Williams Crenshaw / The New Republic
Featured – The Nonviolent Activist Who Mentored John Lewis, Rev. James Lawson. By Peter Dreier / The Progressive
Featured – A new statue of Lincoln will adequately honor him alongside Black Americans. By Frank Smith / Wash Post
Featured – How white supremacy infected Christianity and the Republican Party. By Jennifer Rubin / Wash Post
Featured – Removing monuments is the easy part. We must make America a real democracy. By Rev William Barber and Rev Bernice King / The…
Featured – Biden unveils economic plan to combat racial inequality, slams Trump for stoking tensions. By Adam Edelman and Marianna Sotomayor / NBC News
Featured – Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Trump and the bitter American truth: “We do not have a real democracy.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Featured – Bryan Stevenson on how America can heal. By Ezra Klein / Vox
Featured – The Essential and Enduring Strength of John Lewis. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Featured – How Black Lives Matter Could Reshape the 2020 Elections. By Charlotte Alter / Time
Featured – “Do You Think You’re Not Involved?” The Racial Reckoning of “Blood at the Root.” By Casey Cep / The New Yorker
Featured – Europe in 1989, When the Berlin Wall Fell, America in 2020, and the Death of the Lost Cause. By David W. Blight / The…
Featured – America is facing a reckoning over race, but we’ve seen this before. By Michael A. Fletcher / The Undefeated
Featured – Trump has America staring down the barrel of a gun. By Leonard Pitts Jr. / Miami Herald
Featured – White identity in America is ideology, not biology. The history of ‘whiteness’ proves it. By Nell Irvin Painter / NBC News
Featured – People! Don’t be misled, bamboozled, hoodwinked, or led astray. Wear a mask!
Featured – The History That James Baldwin Wanted America to See. By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. / The New Yorker
Featured – The Psychology of Racism: Racism is a sign of a lack of psychological maturity and integration. By Steve Taylor / Psychology Today
Featured – America’s Long Overdue Awakening on Systemic Racism. By Justin Worland / Time
Featured – America, This Is Your Chance. We must get it right this time or risk losing our democracy forever. By Michelle Alexander / NYT
Featured – Police brutality: A historian explains how racist policing took over US cities. By Anna North / Vox
Featured – Anti-Trump Republican group attacks Trump on race in new ad. By Jim Acosta and Fredreka Schouten / CNN
Featured – Letter from a Region in My Mind. By James Baldwin / The New Yorker
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