Race Inquiry Digest (January 3) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Across America, racist and sexist monuments give way to a new future. By Rebecca Solnit / The Guardian
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Race Inquiry Digest (December 31) – Happy New Year
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…
Race Inquiry Digest (December 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
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…
Race Inquiry Digest (December 24) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Enduring Russian Propaganda Interests in Targeting African-Americans. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Race Inquiry Digest (December 20) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – 58 Jazz Giants in One Immortal Image. By John Leland / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (December 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Best Black History Books of 2018 by AAAIHS Editors.
Race Inquiry Digest (December 13) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
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…
Race Inquiry Digest (December 10) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – This is what an antiracist America would look like. How do we get there? Ibram X. Kendi / The Guardian
Race Inquiry Digest (December 6) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – What Gordon Parks Witnessed: The injustices of Jim Crow and the evolution of a great American photographer – David Rowell / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (December 3) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Is History Being Too Kind to George H.W. Bush? The 41st president put self-interest over principle time and time again.
Race Inquiry Digest (November 29) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
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.
Race Inquiry Digest (November 26) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Why the Announcement of a Looming White Minority Makes Demographers Nervous.
Race Inquiry Digest (November 22) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Going Native: Reasons to Be Thankful. Every year at this time I wonder why we, as American Indians, bother to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Race Inquiry Digest (November 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Slow motion civil war. Donald Trump isn’t our president; he is the Jefferson Davis of a new red state confederacy.
Race Inquiry Digest (Special Edition-November 16) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Diversity on stark display as House’s incoming freshmen gather in Washington.
Race Inquiry Digest (November 12) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – These Black Soldiers Fought for America. It Didn’t Protect Them From Jim Crow. The black soldiers of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion had…
Race Inquiry Digest (November 8) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – America, Now More Divided Than (Almost) Ever. The winners and losers of the 2018 midterms. Democrats captured the House and the GOP kept the…
Race Inquiry Digest (November 5) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It.
Race Inquiry Digest (November 1) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Charleston to Tree of Life: White nationalism is a threat to us all. Spaces of worship are sadly most vulnerable to white nationalist…
Race Inquiry Digest (October 29) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – 72 hours in America: Three hate-filled crimes. Three hate-filled suspects.
Race Inquiry Digest (October 25) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David Blight. Blight, who teaches American history at Yale, has long been drawn to the study of Douglass: His…
Race Inquiry Digest (October 22) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Stone Mountain: The Largest Confederate Monument Problem in the World. The idea to carve the side of the mountain was hatched in 1914….
Race Inquiry Digest (October 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – If You’re Not Scared About Fascism in the U.S., You Should Be. While calling President Trump a fascist may seem like an exaggeration,…
Race Inquiry Digest (October 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Group hopes confronting Maryland’s history of lynchings will help with path forward. It was midway through a brutal accounting of lynching in Maryland…
Race Inquiry Digest (October 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – In Brazil and the US, democracy is at a crossroads. Voters in Brazil and the US face elections in the coming weeks whose…
Race Inquiry Digest (October 8) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Driven by South’s Past, Black Women Seek Votes and a New Future. Mobilized by the nation’s divisions on race and Donald Trump’s presidency,…
Race Inquiry Digest (October 4) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – ‘Student Athlete,’ the latest doc from LeBron James, examines the exploitation of college athletes. HBO film tells the story of four athletes in football…
Race Inquiry Digest (October 1) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Today’s Voter Suppression Tactics Have A 150 Year History. Rebels in the post-Civil War South perfected the art of excluding voters, but it…