Race Inquiry Digest (February 25) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Democrats welcome an increasingly diverse America; Republicans aren’t so sure. By Matthew Yglesias / Vox
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…
Featured – Across America, racist and sexist monuments give way to a new future. By Rebecca Solnit / The Guardian
Featured – The Kernel of Human (or Rodent) Kindness. What we can learn from lab rats that don’t show empathy for other rats. By Henry…
Featured – We Are All Riders on the Same Planet. Seen from space 50 years ago, Earth appeared as a gift to preserve and cherish. What…
Featured – The Enduring Russian Propaganda Interests in Targeting African-Americans. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Featured – 58 Jazz Giants in One Immortal Image. By John Leland / NYT
Featured – The Best Black History Books of 2018 by AAAIHS Editors.
Featured – Ryan Speedo Green: From juvenile delinquency to opera stardom. After a childhood of anger and violence, the 32-year-old now commands the stage around…
Featured – This is what an antiracist America would look like. How do we get there? Ibram X. Kendi / The Guardian
Featured – What Gordon Parks Witnessed: The injustices of Jim Crow and the evolution of a great American photographer – David Rowell / Wash Post
Featured – Is History Being Too Kind to George H.W. Bush? The 41st president put self-interest over principle time and time again.
Featured – ‘White supremacy’ is really about white degeneracy. Today’s far-right populists relish the idea that they can be morally contemptible, yet still prevail.
Featured – Why the Announcement of a Looming White Minority Makes Demographers Nervous.
Featured – Going Native: Reasons to Be Thankful. Every year at this time I wonder why we, as American Indians, bother to celebrate Thanksgiving.