Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 20) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Essential and Enduring Strength of John Lewis. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
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
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