Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 3) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Jim Crow Killed Voting Rights for Generations. Now the GOP Is Repeating History. By Ari Berman / Mother Jones
Featured Jim Crow Killed Voting Rights for Generations. Now the GOP Is Repeating History. By Ari Berman / Mother Jones
Featured The Republican Party, Racial Hypocrisy, and the 1619 Project. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Featured The Party of White Grievance Has Never Cared About Democracy. By Steve Phillips / The Nation
Featured America’s right-wing political monsters are real — and they are coming for you. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured Let’s pause to mark ‘Brown v. Board of Education’ — and its lessons for our time. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Featured How to lose America: The death of democracy looks nearer than ever. By Elayne Clift / Salon
Featured Race and White Supremacy in American Policing: An Investigation. By Steve Volk / Rolling Stone
Featured Richard Wright’s Novel About Racist Police Violence Was Rejected in 1941; It Has Just Been Published. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Featured How civil rights attorney Ben Crump forged his own path. By AP and NBC News
Featured The ‘Mississippi Plan’ to keep Blacks from voting in 1890: ‘We came here to exclude the Negro.’ By Ronald G. Shafer / Wash Post