Race Inquiry Digest (April 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Salon talks to Gates about American history and his new PBS doc “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War.” By Melanie McFarland / Salon
Featured – Salon talks to Gates about American history and his new PBS doc “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War.” By Melanie McFarland / Salon
Featured – White supremacy must be undone — institution by institution. By Michael Gerson / Wash Post
Featured – Scholar Kathleen Belew on New Zealand, Donald Trump and the rise of “white power.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Featured – As a Black Mother, My Parenting Is Always Political. By Dani McClain / The Nation
Featured – Cornell Belcher schools progressives on what it will take to win the White House in 2020. Stephanie Griffith / ThinkProgress
Featured – The entrenched segregation of New York City’s public high schools. By Rachel Leah / Salon
Featured – Democrats Have Long Been Terrified of the White Moderate. Elizabeth Warren Apparently Has No Such Fear. By Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate
Featured – It’s Time to Attack White Nationalism for the Terror Group It Is. By Christopher Dickey / The Daily Beast
Featured – After 100 years, Mussolini’s fascist party is a reminder of the fragility of freedom. By Richard Gunderman / The Conversaation
Featured – Curtis Mayfield’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell. By Jason Heller / The Atlantic
Featured – How Donald Trump Played the (White) Race Card and Reshaped the Democratic Party. By Nina Burleigh / Newsweek
Featured – How Do We Counteract Othering in America Today? By Editorial Staff / The Progressive
Featured – The Deepening ‘Racialization’ of American Politics. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Featured – Democrats welcome an increasingly diverse America; Republicans aren’t so sure. By Matthew Yglesias / Vox
Feature – What it Really Means to Be Indian. By Mark Anthony Rolo / The Progressive
Featured – The black men of the Civil War were America’s original ‘dreamers.’ By Colbert King / Wash Post
Featured – New York City Public Schools Should Be Evaluated Based on Diversity, Not Just Tests, Panel Says. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
Featured – How Trump Continues to Use Race as a Prop. By Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
Featured – State of the Union 2019: A Stacey Abrams essay you should read. By Zack Beauchamp / Vox
Featured – Northam’s ugly yearbook photo and the racist origins of blackface. The image of a man in blackface standing beside a figure in Klan…
Featured – Closing the Gulf Between Black and White Christians. By Emma Green / The Atlantic
Featured – Trump’s Wall of Shame. It would stand as a lasting reminder of the white racial hostility surging through this moment in American history….
Featured – Nathan Phillips and the boys from Covington: What does this ugly encounter say about America? By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Featured – A new Supreme Court is poised to take a chunk out of MLK’s legacy. By John Blake / CNN
Featured – The House Votes to Reprimand Steve King for Racist Comments. By Nihal Krishan / Mother Jones
Featured – Trump’s border wall isn’t about national security. It’s about stoking racial resentment. By Jason Sattler / USA Today
Featured – White right? How demographics is changing US politics. By Monica Duffy Toft / The Conversation
Featured – “We’re going to impeach the motherfucker.” Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) Lots Of Us Think Trump Is A Motherf**ker Who Should Be Impeached. Rashida Tlaib…