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…
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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…
Race Inquiry Digest (March 22) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – As America Changes, Some Anxious Whites Feel Left Behind. Demographic shifts rippling across the nation are fueling fears that their culture and standing…
Race Inquiry Digest (March 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Chris Hayes: What ‘Law and Order’ Means to Trump. If all that matters when it comes to “law and order” is who is…
Race Inquiry Digest (March 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – These Twins, One Black and One White, Will Make You Rethink Race. Marcia (left) and Millie Biggs, both 11, say people are shocked…
Race Inquiry Digest (March 12) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Vote. That’s Just What They Don’t Want You to Do. This is a fragile moment for the nation. The integrity of democratic institutions…
Race Inquiry Digest (March 8) – Important Current Stories On Race In America ( Revised)
Feature – Mass shooters: Part of a larger epidemic of white male rage. Mass shooters should be understood, it seems, as the radical edge of…
Race Inquiry Digest (March 8) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Mass shooters: Part of a larger epidemic of white male rage. Mass shooters should be understood, it seems, as the radical edge of…
Race Inquiry Digest (March 5) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – The NRA, Gun Control and Black People: A Complicated History. Black people, the NRA and gun control share a complicated history, from the…
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…
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…