Race Inquiry Digest (August 1) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – National Cathedral On Trump’s Racist Comments: ‘Have We No Decency?’ By Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost
Featured – National Cathedral On Trump’s Racist Comments: ‘Have We No Decency?’ By Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost
Featured – Race, History, and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood. Harvard University President looks back at the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in her home state….
Featured – How Should Democrats Counter Racist Politics? By making it the central moral issue of their campaigns. By Mary Harris / Slate Podcast
Featured – Trump revives the idea of a ‘white man’s country’, America’s original sin. By Nell Painter / The Guardian
Featured – “White Identity Politics” and white backlash: How we wound up with a racist in the White House. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Featured – It Was Never About Busing. By Nikole Hannah-Jones / NYT
Featured – Racism: Milwaukee’s Public Health Emergency. By Isiah Holmes / The Progressive
Featured – Inherently Unequal: The life and afterlife of Plessy v. Ferguson. By David Cole / The Nation
Featured – “What to the Slave Is 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech. By Democracy Now
Featured – Trump remains dominant among white voters — Democrats can’t afford to be complacent. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon