Race Inquiry Digest (June 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – ‘When They See Us’ exposes a legacy of hatred aimed at black men. By Ken Makin / The Undefeated
Featured – ‘When They See Us’ exposes a legacy of hatred aimed at black men. By Ken Makin / The Undefeated
Featured – Colorism in Cuba: How Did Seeking ‘Strong Men of Color’ Ever Become Acceptable in Cuba? By Alejandro De La Fuente / NYT
Featured – What Reparations for Slavery Might Look Like in 2019. By Patricia Cohen / NYT
Featured – Rich white men rule America. How much longer will we tolerate that? By Nathan Robinson / The Guardian
Featured – 65 years since Brown v. Board of Ed, school segregation persists. By Janelle Richards, Rehema Ellis and Elissa Candiotti / NBC News
Featured – Joe Biden Is Going Back to the Clinton Playbook. The Democratic frontrunner’s campaign is pitched to white folks who have fled the party….
Featured – Bob Marley lyrics that still hold true today (and probably always will). By Kendall Trammell / CNN
Featured – Russian Efforts to Exploit Racial Divisions in 2016 Found Firm Ground in U.S., Report Says. By Mihir Zaveri and Jacey Fortin / NYT
Featured – Jim Crow North: A New Book about Segregation and Struggle outside the South. By J.T. Roane / AAHS
Featured – The US white majority will soon disappear forever. By Dudley Poston and Rogelio Saenz / The Conversation
Featured – The Neighborhood Is Mostly Black. The Home Buyers Are Mostly White. By Emily Badger, Quoctruing Bui, and Robert Gebeloff / NYT
Featured – Closing the Racial Wealth Gap. By Courtney E. Martin / NYT
Featured – Inciting Hatred Is Trump’s 2020 Game Plan. By John Nichols / The Nation
Featured – Demonizing Minority Women. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Featured – People are again talking about slavery reparations. But it’s a complex and thorny issue. By Doug Criss / CNN
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