Race Inquiry Digest (Feb 20) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – After Fighting Nazis, Black G.I.s Faced Racism in U.S. Military. By Alexis Clark / NYT
Featured – After Fighting Nazis, Black G.I.s Faced Racism in U.S. Military. By Alexis Clark / NYT
Featured – The Bloomberg Temptation. By Ross Douthat / NYT
Featured – The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President. By McKay Coppins / The Atlantic
Featured – The Oscars’ ‘Harriet Tubman problem.’ By Peniel Joseph / CNN
Featured – Trump just gave Americans a lesson in white history. By Jessica Machado / Vox
Featured – Jay-Z Takes on the Super Bowl. By Katherine Rosman / NYT
Featured – Donald Trump and his demons: Why the assault on democracy will get worse. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Featured – How Republicans made millions on the tax cuts they pushed through Congress. By Peter Cary / Center for Public Integrity and Vox
Featured – ‘Just Mercy’ Attorney Asks U.S. To Reckon With Its Racist Past And Present. By Terry Gross / NPR
Featured – The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an ‘Aberration.’ By Michelle Alexander / NYT
Featured – Big-time colleges care more about money and winning than black athletes getting degrees. By Derick Z. Jackson / The Undefeated
Featured – Evangelicals using religion for political gain is nothing new. It is a US tradition. By Reverend William Barber / The Guardian
Featured – Biographer and journalist David Maraniss on Trump, Obama and history turned “upside down.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Featured – The Decade We Changed Our Minds. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Featured – The Dark History of New Year’s Day in American Slavery / By Olivia B. Waxman / Time
Featured – Our 25 can’t-miss books of 2019. The books you’ve just got to give for the holidays. By Soraya Nadia McDonald / The Undefeated
Featured – It’s a very bad week for Donald Trump — but he remains a dangerous foe. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Featured – Blacks in corporate America still largely invisible, study finds. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Featured – Miss USA, Miss America, Miss Teen USA and now Miss Universe are all black women. By Kendall Trammell / CNN
Featured – States imprison black people at five times the rate of whites — a sign of a narrowing yet still-wide gap. Katie Mettler /…