Race Inquiry Digest (Jan 2) – Happy New Year
Featured – The Decade We Changed Our Minds. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Featured – The Decade We Changed Our Minds. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Featured – The Dark History of New Year’s Day in American Slavery / By Olivia B. Waxman / Time
Featured – Our 25 can’t-miss books of 2019. The books you’ve just got to give for the holidays. By Soraya Nadia McDonald / The Undefeated
Featured – It’s a very bad week for Donald Trump — but he remains a dangerous foe. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Featured – Blacks in corporate America still largely invisible, study finds. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Featured – Miss USA, Miss America, Miss Teen USA and now Miss Universe are all black women. By Kendall Trammell / CNN
Featured – States imprison black people at five times the rate of whites — a sign of a narrowing yet still-wide gap. Katie Mettler /…
Featured – Will Republicans be able to wipe Trump’s crimes from the history books? By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Featured – ‘Watchmen’ Is A Powerful Exploration Of Black Trauma, And Everyone Needs To Watch. By Erin E. Evans / HuffPost
Featured – Making Impeachment Matter. Democrats need to face up to their constitutional duty without fear. By Alex Pareene / The New Republic
Featured – Colin Kaepernick’s NFL workout was a debacle because teams care about profits, not winning games. By Dave Schilling / NBC News
Featured – Stephen Miller’s Sinister Syllabus. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Featured – Brown is the New Black. In Trump’s America, African-Americans and Latinos have a new kind of solidarity. By Erin Aubry Kaplan / NYT
Featured – The ‘Lost Cause’ That Built Jim Crow. Southern “Redeemers” snuffed out the first black power movement. By Henry Louis Gates / NYT
Featured – Derek Black grew up as a white nationalist. Here’s how he changed his mind. By Charlayne Hunter-Gault / PBS News Hour
Featured – 2019 is the Year of the Black QB. By Jason Reid / The Undefeated
Featured – Sexual Violence Against Enslaved Men. By Kevin C. Quinn / AAIHS
Featured – I traveled the American South looking for a way to solve racial divisions. By Mitch Landrieu / CNN
Featured – The Fight to Desegregate New York Schools. By Sweta Vohra / NYT
Featured – What Elijah Cummings Meant to Baltimore. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Featured – What can a black person do to keep from getting killed by police in this country? By Eugene Robinson / Wash Post
Featured – How Italians Became ‘White.’ Vicious bigotry, reluctant acceptance: an American story. By Brent Staples / NYT
Featured – Take a Break From Impeachment. Watch Lil’ Kim’s Career-Spanning Performance at BET Hip Hop Awards. By Emily Zemler / Rolling Stone
Featured – A hug of forgiveness for Amber Guyger is not absolution for America’s racism. By Isaac Bailey / CNN
Featured – Historian Warns Today’s America Looks ‘Eerily Similar’ to Period Before the Civil War, Compares Movement Conservatives to Slaveholder Elite. By Shane Croucher /…
Featured – Elaine Massacre: Federal troops escorting African Americans to the schoolhouse in Elaine, Ark; October 1919. By Christina Maxouris / CNN
Featured – Keeanaga-Yamahtta Taylor Says There Is No Housing Crisis: ” It’s Just Housing Under Capitalism. By Nawal Arjini / The Nation
Featured – Exclusive: Martin Luther King Jr. Talks Reparations, White Economic Anxiety and Guaranteed income in a Previously Unheard Speech. By Michael Hariot / The…