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….
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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…
Race Inquiry Digest (September 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – A new authoritarian axis demands an international progressive front. There is a global struggle taking place of enormous consequence. Nothing less than the…
Race Inquiry Digest (September 24) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – On Hating the Jews. Is there a single explanation for the astonishing persistence of anti-Semitism?
Race Inquiry Digest (September 20) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Are today’s white kids less racist than their grandparents? In America’s children, we often see hope for a better future, especially when it comes to…
Race Inquiry Digest (September 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – This is the most important thing you will do all year. The 2016 presidential election taught us the bitter consequences of not going…
Race Inquiry Digest (September 13) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Looking Our Racist History in the Eye. An exhibit about the civil rights movement in Nashville proves Faulkner was right: The past isn’t…
Race Inquiry Digest (September 10) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Serena Williams is owed an apology for much more than a penalty. And it wasn’t only Williams who was punished for her success…
Race Inquiry Digest (September 6) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – How Democrats Can Make Race A Winning Issue. Democrats need to back new and recurring claims for social justice, while never forgetting to…
Race Inquiry Digest (September 3) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – The Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult. To understand the rapid mainstreaming of white supremacism in English-speaking liberal democracies today, we must…
Race Inquiry Digest (August 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Andrew Gillum and the Extent of the Progressive Revolution. Gillum—the thirty-nine-year-old, outspokenly progressive, African-American mayor of Tallahassee, Florida—is running for governor this year,…
Race Inquiry Digest (August 23) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – ‘A shameful affair’: The last man lynched in Montgomery County, Md. Around 1 a.m., a lynch mob overpowered the county jailer and whisked…
Race Inquiry Digest (August 20) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Omarosa, Trump and the curse of being a black woman in America. “The most disrespected woman in America is the black woman. The…
Race Inquiry Digest (August 16) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Documenting ‘Slavery by Another Name’ in Texas. After the Civil War, many states imposed what the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Douglas Blackmon rightly describes as…
Race Inquiry Digest (August 13) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – The path to autocracy is all too familiar. How do democratic countries get to the point where they give up on self-rule? Under…
Race Inquiry Digest (August 9) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – We look back at the deadly rally in Charlottesville with a new documentary by Frontline PBS and ProPublica titled “Documenting Hate: Charlottesville.” We…
Race Inquiry Digest (August 6) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – LeBron James, the most important athlete in America, explained. How the world’s best basketball player became a political force for racial justice. “No…
Race Inquiry Digest (August 2) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – White Americans support welfare programs — but only for themselves, says new research. Donald Trump’s administration recently decided to give $12 billion to farmers…
Race Inquiry Digest (July 30) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – In Georgia Governor’s Race, a Defining Moment for a Southern State. The Republican won the nomination Tuesday after branding himself a politically incorrect…
Race Inquiry Digest (July 26) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism. In 2011, Robin DiAngelo coined the term “white fragility” to…
Race Inquiry Digest (July 23) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – In Mandela speech, Obama offers nuanced approach to dealing with white anxiety and resentment. President Barack Obama gave a powerhouse speech this Tuesday…
Race Inquiry Digest (July 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – The Real Threat to American Democracy Isn’t Russia. It’s the Right. A week ago, Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise…
Race Inquiry Digest (July 16) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – The Quiet Death of Racial Progress. Unfortunately, this is not a comforting column. The deeper I dug into the evidence, the more I came…