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…
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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…
Race Inquiry Digest (November 23) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Trump’s racist rants follow a pattern. Even his supporters are tired of it. Notice something? There’s no mistaking the fact that the subject…
Race Inquiry Digest (November 20) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The F.B.I.’s Dangerous Crackdown on ‘Black Identity Extremists.’ Michael German, a former F.B.I. agent and fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice’s liberty…
Race Inquiry Digest (November 16) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Opioid Vs. Crack Addiction: A Racial Double Standard? It’s been years in the making, but finally lawmakers and government agencies are jumping in…
Race Inquiry Digest ( November 13) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Can My Children Be Friends With White People? When they ask, I will teach my sons that their beautiful hue is a fault…
Race Inquiry Digest (November 9) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – My travels in white America – a land of anxiety, division and pockets of pain. This summer, Gary Younge took a trip from…
Race Inquiry Digest (November 6) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Where the alt-right wants to take America — with or without Trump. Trump’s electoral victory one year ago this week was not merely…
Race Inquiry Digest (November 2) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Study Shows American High Schoolers Are Lashing Out in the Increasingly Racist, Anti-Immigrant Atmosphere Trump Has Created. Trump’s fanning of the flames of…
Race Inquiry Digest (October 30) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – James Madison’s Lessons in Racism. Madison is the founding father who can teach Americans the most about our present contradictions on race. Madison understood perfectly…
Race Inquiry Digest (October 26) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr, a new civil rights leader takes center stage. The Rev Dr William Barber stands at the pulpit…
Race Inquiry Digest (October 23) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – A fallen black soldier being disrespected? That’s not an aberration in America. The reported treatment of Sergeant La David Johnson’s family is part…
Race Inquiry Digest (October 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Values Voters Summit Props Up Our White-Supremacist Corporate Oligarchy. These Christian nationalists serve only the wealthiest Americans and take every opportunity to…
Race Inquiry Digest (October 16) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – ‘Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law.’ Bill Moyers in conversation with author James Whitman about his…
Race Inquiry Digest (October 12) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Watch when 20,000 American Nazis Descended Upon New York City. In 1939, the German American Bund organized a rally of 20,000 Nazi supporters…