Race Inquiry Digest (March 1) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Report Updates Landmark 1968 Racism Study, Finds More Poverty And Segregation. A new study that builds on the Kerner Report’s work was released…
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Race Inquiry Digest (February 26) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Fanning the Flames of America’s Racial Tensions Is As Russian As Vodka and Blini. Russia used the U.S. history of racial oppression and…
Race Inquiry Digest (February 22) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – The Tragedy of Erik Killmonger. “Two billion people all over the world who look like us whose lives are much harder, and Wakanda…
Race Inquiry Digest (February 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Why ‘Black Panther’ Is a Defining Moment for Black America. Ryan Coogler’s film is a vivid re-imagination of something black Americans have cherished…
Race Inquiry Digest (February 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – When the next generation looks racially different from the last, political tensions rise. The “racial generation gap.” This is a straightforward measure of the…
Race Inquiry Digest (February 12) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – How Joy Reid of MSNBC Became a Heroine of the Resistance. The daughter of immigrants, she spars fiercely with supporters of President Trump,…
Race Inquiry Digest (February 8) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – They considered themselves white, but DNA tests told a more complex story. As more Americans take advantage of genetic testing to pinpoint the…
Race Inquiry Digest (February 5) – Important Current Stories On Race In America (Revised)
Feature – White Americans, welcome to the club of being asked, ‘Where are you really from?’ In 2020, perhaps for the first time, white Americans…
Race Inquiry Digest (February 5) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – White Americans, welcome to the club of being asked, ‘Where are you really from?’ In 2020, perhaps for the first time, white Americans…
Race Inquiry Digest (February 1) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Trump is trying to Make America White Again. President Trump’s immigration proposal reveals what he has been after all along: an end to…
Race Inquiry Digest (January 29) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Concerning Monuments – The Shaw Memorial : A salute to the soldiers of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment. 1n 1863, after the Emancipation Proclamation…
Race Inquiry Digest (January 25) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Racism Represents an American Tradition. The nation’s first naturalization law, from 1790, closed off United States citizenship to all but “free…
Race Inquiry Digest (January 22) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Shutdown: A familiar partisan ritual takes on new meaning in the Trump era. That conflict now pits the nativist impulses unleashed by Trump’s…
Race Inquiry Digest (January 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Yes, your ancestors probably did come here legally – because ‘illegal’ immigration is less than a century old. For the first century of…
Race Inquiry Digest (January 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – We Must Denounce Trump’s Racist Actions, Not Just His Racist Words. The victories of the civil-rights movement include Medicaid and reforms to our…
Race Inquiry Digest (January 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Trump wants to remove these immigrants. An ugly bit of history tells us what it could do to the economy. Between 1929 and…
Race Inquiry Digest (January 8) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – As U.S. Becomes More Diverse, What Role Will Nonwhites Play In Furthering White Supremacy? Nikki Haley, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and former…
Race Inquiry Digest (January 4) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – 4 Reasons for a surprising change in racial incarceration trendlines. It’s long been a given that racial disparities plague the nation’s criminal justice…
Race Inquiry Digest (January 1) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests ? Trump’s first year in office revived an age-old debate about why…
Race Inquiry Digest (December 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Dr. King’s Interconnected World. Fifty years ago Sunday — Christmas Eve 1967 — the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in his…
Race Inquiry Digest (December 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Holiday Brilliance of Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas.” If Donny Hathaway had lived to see “This Christmas” enshrined as the black Christmas anthem—a…
Race Inquiry Digest (December 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Sample The Best Jazz Albums of 2017 plus the best historical releases. Even as the world goes up in smoke, artists still make…
Race Inquiry Digest (December 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Black voters just saved America from Roy Moore. Exit polling around 6:00 p.m. EST showed that nearly 30 percent of voters at that…
Race Inquiry Digest (December 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – For black women, #MeToo came centuries too late. America’s original victims of grotesque sexual exploitation: black women, who suffered horribly, in forced silence,…
Race Inquiry Digest (December 7) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – A new Poor People’s Campaign wants to change how society defines morality. Led by Rev. William J. Barber II and Rev. Liz Theoharis,…
Race Inquiry Digest (December 4) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Republican tax bill is not just immoral. It is an act of violence. Republicans are proposing to give billions in tax breaks to…
Race Inquiry Digest (November 30) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The gang rape was horrific. The NAACP sent Rosa Parks to investigate. Rosa Parks, left, in an undated photo. Decades after her rape,…
Race Inquiry Digest (November 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – “That Was a Damn Lie :” The New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb on why we fell for Obama’s version of a united America. We discuss…