Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 13) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – African American Scientist Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett leads the way on COVID-19 vaccine trials. By Janell Ross / NBC News
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
Featured – After Fighting Nazis, Black G.I.s Faced Racism in U.S. Military. By Alexis Clark / NYT
Featured – The Bloomberg Temptation. By Ross Douthat / NYT
Featured – The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President. By McKay Coppins / The Atlantic
Featured – The Oscars’ ‘Harriet Tubman problem.’ By Peniel Joseph / CNN
Featured – Trump just gave Americans a lesson in white history. By Jessica Machado / Vox
Featured – Jay-Z Takes on the Super Bowl. By Katherine Rosman / NYT
Featured – Donald Trump and his demons: Why the assault on democracy will get worse. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Featured – How Republicans made millions on the tax cuts they pushed through Congress. By Peter Cary / Center for Public Integrity and Vox
Featured – ‘Just Mercy’ Attorney Asks U.S. To Reckon With Its Racist Past And Present. By Terry Gross / NPR
Featured – The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an ‘Aberration.’ By Michelle Alexander / NYT
Featured – Big-time colleges care more about money and winning than black athletes getting degrees. By Derick Z. Jackson / The Undefeated
Featured – Evangelicals using religion for political gain is nothing new. It is a US tradition. By Reverend William Barber / The Guardian
Featured – Biographer and journalist David Maraniss on Trump, Obama and history turned “upside down.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon