Race Inquiry Digest (September 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Inequality crisis: Blacks and Latinos on the road to zero wealth. No savings, investments or home equity. This economic dystopia looms for minority…
Race Inquiry Digest
Race Inquiry Digest (September 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – The First White President. The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy. It is insufficient to state the obvious of…
Race Inquiry Digest (September 7) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Trump’s Move to End DACA and Echoes of the Immigration Act of 1924. The policy was so defiantly and arrogantly racist that, as…
Race Inquiry Digest (September 4) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – White Elephant. Trump has never been less popular—and never more clearly the head of a party of racial resentment. And yet, few Republican…
Race Inquiry Digest (August 31) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – White ‘Power’ and the Fear of Replacement. When white nationalists converged in Charlottesville, Va., ostensibly to protest the removal of a statue of…
Race Inquiry Digest (August 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Warning signs of mass violence – in the US? There are those who say that comparing President Donald Trump’s rhetoric to that of Adolf Hitler…
Race Inquiry Digest (August 24) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Confederate Statues and ‘Our’ History. President Trump’s Thursday morning tweet lamenting that the removal of Confederate statues tears apart “the history and culture…
Race Inquiry Digest (August 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – ‘The civil war lies on us like a sleeping dragon’: America’s deadly divide – and why it has returned. The years leading up…
Race Inquiry Digest (August 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Trump Knows Exactly What He’s Doing. President Trump’s press conference was the clearest and most precise articulation of a view that Trump has…
Race Inquiry Digest (August 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Charlottesville and the Bigotocracy. The late, great Gore Vidal said that we live in “The United States of Amnesia.” Our fatal forgetfulness flares…
Race Inquiry Digest (August 10) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Short Documentary, Abbeville, is Released by the Equal Justice Initiative. The film follows community members committed to spreading the truth about the lynching…
Race Inquiry Digest (August 7) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Policies of White Resentment. White resentment put Donald Trump in the White House. And there is every indication that it will keep…
Race Inquiry Digest ( August 4 ) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – James Baldwin: How to Cool It : Read the landmark 1968 Q&A on race in America. In Esquire’s July 1968 issue, published just…
Race Inquiry Digest (July 31) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – 100 Years Ago African-Americans Marched Down Fifth Avenue to Declare that Black Lives Matter. The “Silent Protest Parade” was the first mass African-American…
Race Inquiry Digest (July 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – What We Know — And Don’t Know — About Hate Crimes in America. Hate crimes and bias incidents are a national problem, but…
Race Inquiry Digest (July 10) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – The Racial and Religious Paranoia of Trump’s Warsaw Speech. When the president says being Western is the essence of America’s identity, he’s in…
Race Inquiry Digest (July 6) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Trump Can’t Reverse the Decline of White Christian America. Two-thirds of those who voted for the president felt his election was the “last…
Race Inquiry Digest (July 3) – Important Current Stories On Race In America (Revised)
Feature – American Dignity on the Fourth of July. Reading Frederick Douglass’s Independence Day address from 1852 may ease the despair caused by listening to President…
Race Inquiry Digest (July 3) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – American Dignity on the Fourth of July. Reading Frederick Douglass’s Independence Day address from 1852 may ease the despair caused by listening to President…
Race Inquiry Digest (June 29) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – The Fight for Health Care Has Always Been About Civil Rights. In dismantling Obamacare and slashing Medicaid, Republicans would strike a blow against…
Race Inquiry Digest (June 26) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Sacrificing Black Lives for the American Lie. Americans refuse to see their country as a place where racist politicians and judges maintain laws…
Race Inquiry Digest (June 22) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Understanding Contemporary White Supremacy. Our panel of scholars on what we get wrong about white supremacy, and whether persecuting racists does any good. Read…
Race Inquiry Digest (June 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Philando Castile and This Savage System. My own experience on a grand jury showed me why so many young men of color are locked…
Race Inquiry Digest (June 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – A Resolution Condemning White Supremacy Causes Chaos at the Southern Baptist Convention. At its annual meeting, the evangelical denomination initially declined to consider…
Race Inquiry Digest (June 13) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – A Celebration of Black Lawyers, Past and Present. Thurgood Marshall, pictured here at a meeting of the N.A.A.C.P. in the mid-nineteen-fifties, was one…
Race Inquiry Digest (June 8) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Yes, there is a free speech crisis. But its victims are not white men. Women, people of color and politicians standing up to…
Race Inquiry Digest ( June 5 ) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – The Myth of the Kindly General Lee. The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a…
Race Inquiry Digest ( June 1 ) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Will Donald Trump Ever Say the Words ‘White Supremacist Terrorism’? POTUS loved whacking Hillary for not saying ‘Islamic fundamentalist terrorism.’ But how come when…