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…
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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…
Race Inquiry Digest (July 12) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Today, Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) released Segregation in America, a new report and companion website that documents how millions of white Americans joined…
Race Inquiry Digest (July 9) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – These young black women made desegregation possible. We need to learn from their example. Black students are provided with a military escort at…
Race Inquiry Digest (July 5) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – The Choice : Democracy or White Supremacy! This dilemma is as old as the founding of America. The Declaration of Independence of 1776 set forth the ideals…
Race Inquiry Digest (July 2) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – How to Hold On to Hope. This horrible week was particularly stressful for minorities. A therapist who works with patients experiencing profound injustice…
Race Inquiry Digest (June 25) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – The GOP’s Racist Rot Began Long Before Trump. The Republican Party is in tatters. After spending decades investing in hyper-partisan, mean-spirited political shenanigans…
Race Inquiry Digest (June 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about.” Sociologist and best-selling author says Trump is no “aberration from…
Race Inquiry Digest (June 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – White People Are Noticing Something New: Their Own Whiteness. Being white in America has long been treated, at least by white people, as…
Race Inquiry Digest (June 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – A Radically Woke and Deeply Conservative Commencement Address. At Pomona College, Danielle Allen spoke about the Declaration of Independence and its electric cord….
Race Inquiry Digest (June 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Donald Trump’s empire of disorientation: Where the future is the past, made worse. Trump wants to turn back the clock — but how…
Race Inquiry Digest (June 7) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – The Philadelphia Eagles and “their President”: Trump’s act of potent symbolic racism. Trump disinvited the NFL champs to an event they didn’t want…
Race Inquiry Digest (June 4) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – The US has an HIV epidemic – and its victims are gay black men. The Centers for Disease Control predicts one in every…
Race Inquiry Digest (May 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – The Moral Beauty of Michael Curry’s Royal Wedding Sermon. His sermon began citing the Song of Solomon: “Love is as strong as death…
Race Inquiry Digest (May 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – The Ancient Myth of ‘Good Fences.’ What do “fences” truly represent? If one looks at history, the answer seems obvious: What fences have…
Race Inquiry Digest (May 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Liberal hope is dangerous: Don’t count on Mueller or the blue wave to save America from Trump. Believe that American democracy still works…
Race Inquiry Digest (May 10) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – William Barber Takes on Poverty and Race in the Age of Trump. The Reverend Dr. William Barber, a pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church,…
Race Inquiry Digest (May 7) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – When Southern Newspapers Justified Lynching. Newspapers even bragged about the roles they had played in arranging particularly spectacular lynchings. But the real damage…
Race Inquiry Digest ( May 3) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Interview with Bryan Stevenson – (Part 1)“Talking About History Is Way We Liberate America”: New Memorial Honors Victims of White Supremacy. The museum and…
Race Inquiry Digest (April 30) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Watching Cosby Fall (Victim or Victimizer). On Thursday, Mr. Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Ms. Constand. To…
Race Inquiry Digest (April 26) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opens Thursday…
Race Inquiry Digest (April 23) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – How Alabama could become ‘Ground Zero’ in renewed battle over Confederate symbols. Two competing narratives of the Civil War and the Southern Reconstruction…