Race Inquiry Digest (Feb 6) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Trump just gave Americans a lesson in white history. By Jessica Machado / Vox
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
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