Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 22) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Elijah Cummings has a message for voters ‘from beyond the grave.’ By Nicole Goodkind / Fortune
Featured Elijah Cummings has a message for voters ‘from beyond the grave.’ By Nicole Goodkind / Fortune
Featured – With days left, Black voters face orchestrated efforts to discourage voting. By April Glaser / NBC News
Featured – COVID deaths reveal how racism still has its grip on America. By USA Today Staff
Featured – The German model for America. By Mattie Kahn / Vox
Featured – The origins of policing in America. Wash Post Video
Featured – American History Is Getting Whitewashed, Again. By Kali Holloway / The Nation
Featured – Trump’s Debate Answer Gave White Supremacists a Huge Win. By Vera Bergengruen and Lissandra Villa / Time
Featured – The Relentlessness of Black Grief. By Marissa Evans / The Atlantic
Featured – Freedom Day, 1963: A Lost Interview with James Baldwin. By Fern Marjo Eckman / The New Yorker
Featured – How Jewish history and the Holocaust fueled Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s quest for justice. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
Featured – Racism Is Not a Historical Footnote. By Bill Russell / The Players Tribune
Featured – The history of Black voter suppression — and the fight for the right to vote. By LaTosha Brown / NBC News Video
Featured – The Armed Defenders of White Male Supremacy. By Ibram X. Kendi / The Atlantic
Featured – Black American anxiety at all-time high, experts say. By Ryan Shepard / ABC News
Featured – The Inevitable Whitelash Against Racial Justice Has Started. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
Featured – The NBA Wildcat Strike Is How a Revolution Starts. By Lester Spence / Mother Jones
Featured – Isabel Wilkerson, the author of “Caste,” speaks. An interview by Ezra Klein / Vox
Featured – Barack Obama Delivers a Jeremiad. By David W. Blight / NYT
Featured – Michelle Obama’s Unmatched Call to Action at the Democratic National Convention. By Doreen St. Felix / The New Yorker
Featured -Fear of a Black Uprising. Confronting the white pathologies that shape racist policing. By Kimberle’ Williams Crenshaw / The New Republic