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
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…
Race Inquiry Digest ( May 29 ) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Maryland and Manchester: We can’t let heinous attacks overseas obscure our homegrown terrorism problem. Yes, Islamist extremism is a worldwide threat. But we’re…
Race Inquiry Digest ( May 25 ) – Important Current Stories On Race In America (Revised)
Feature – Mitch Landrieu Reminds Us That Eloquence Still Exists. His speech on the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans is one of the…
Race Inquiry Digest ( May 22 ) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – If you truly knew what the N-word meant to our ancestors, you’d NEVER use it. It was used and still can be used…
Race Inquiry Digest ( May 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Donald Trump’s Catastrophic Presidency Offers More Proof That Racism and Sexism Are Destroying America. This week’s Russian revelations are part of a larger pattern:…
Race Inquiry Digest (May 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Trump’s voter fraud commission is a shameless white power grab. There were only four documented cases of attempted voter fraud in the 2016…
Race Inquiry Digest (May 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – A Call to Faith-Based Communities to Bring Dignity and Integrity to our Criminal Justice System. “Our faith calls us to liberate the least…
Race Inquiry Digest ( May 8 ) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Cruel Old Party. The Republican Party won control of government promising help. Help for the unemployed, help for the uninsured; help for the…
Race Inquiry Digest – ( May 4 ) Important Current Stories On Race in America
Feature – The Collapse of American Identity. These partisan portraits highlight contrasting responses to the country’s changing demographics and culture, especially over the past decade…
Race Inquiry Digest – May 1
Feature – The NFL’s racial divide. The story of the enduring blackness of the running back position is part of a much bigger narrative about…
Race Inquiry Digest – April 27
Feature – Confederate memorials have no place in American society. Good riddance. City officials in New Orleans are removing Confederacy-era monuments. But this is not a…
Race Inquiry Digest ( April 24 ) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Not enough time, too many news sources. The following are compelling stories on race and ethnicity that have been selected for our readers. Feature –…
Race Inquiry Digest (April 20) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Not enough time, too many news sources. The following are compelling stories on race and ethnicity that have been selected for our readers. Feature –…