Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 22) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Chauvin Verdict: Convicted in the Killing of George Floyd. By David A. Graham / The Atlantic
Featured Chauvin Verdict: Convicted in the Killing of George Floyd. By David A. Graham / The Atlantic
Featured Minnesota Is One of the Best Places to Live in America. Unless You’re Black. By Samuel L. Myers Jr. / NYT
Featured Republicans are out of the mainstream on race. By William Saletan / Slate
Featured “Exterminate All the Brutes,” Reviewed: A Vast, Agonizing History of White Supremacy. By Richard Brody / The New Yorker
Featured If It’s Not Jim Crow, What Is It? Georgia’s new voting law has to be understood in its own peculiar historical context. By Jamelle Bouie…
Featured Don Lemon Breaks Down Sobbing During Cornel West’s Searing Commentary on George Floyd and Police Violence. By Tommy Christopher / Mediaite
Featured Don’t blame Facebook: How Fox News became the beating heart of the white nationalist movement. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Featured These two photos from the Georgia Capitol reveal what the state’s new voting law is all about. By John Blake / CNN
Featured The Capitol Riots and the Eternal Fantasy of a Racially Virtuous America. By Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw / The New Republic
Featured U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield gives powerful speech at U.N.: “I know the ugly face of racism.” By Pamela Falk / CBS News