Race Inquiry Digest (Dec 5) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Will Republicans be able to wipe Trump’s crimes from the history books? By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
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…
Featured – Hollow boom: why black Americans feel left out of US’s robust economy. By Lauren Aratani / The Guardian
Featured – Teaching Hard History. Preface by Hasan Kwame Jeffries / Southern Poverty Law Center
Featured – Conservatives’ reaction to the ‘1619 Project’ is disappointing — and instructive. By Michael Gerson / Wash Post
Featured – How to help the victims of Hurricane Dorian. By Nicole Spector / NBC News
Featured – Welcome to the Year of the Black Quarterback. By Jason Reid / The Undefeated
Featured – A fight over gifted education in New York is escalating a national debate over segregated schools. By Erin Einhorn / NBC News
Featured – Editorial: ‘The 1619 Project’ is landmark truth telling. By NCR Editorial Staff “Lynching Memorial Leaves Some Quietly Seething”