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…
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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…
Race Inquiry Digest (April 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Was the Confederacy really defeated? Why America can’t stop fighting the Civil War. How can we reconcile the rise of Donald Trump with…
Race Inquiry Digest (April 16) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis. Black infants in America are now more than twice as likely to…
Race Inquiry Digest (April 12) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Walter Mondale: The Civil Rights Law We Ignored. Fifty years ago on April 11, Congress enacted the Fair Housing Act, the last of…
Race Inquiry Digest (April 9) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – King’s Death Gave Birth to Hip-Hop. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. led directly to hip-hop, an era of black American culture,…
Race Inquiry Digest (April 5) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – ‘The Blood of Lynching Victims Is in This Soil.’ By preserving soil from sites where blacks died from lynchings, a museum aims to help…
Race Inquiry Digest (April 2) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – We Forgot What Dr. King Believed In. Dr. King passionately believed that a commitment to God is a commitment to bettering humanity, that…
Race Inquiry Digest (March 29) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Why are white men stockpiling guns? According to a growing number of scientific studies, the kind of man who stockpiles weapons or applies…
Race Inquiry Digest (March 26) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – America can prevent shootings. But it has to come to grips with the problem. It’s going to happen again. There will be another…