Race Inquiry Digest (Nov 16) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured How the Negro Spiritual Changed American Popular Music – and America Itself. By Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic
Featured How the Negro Spiritual Changed American Popular Music – and America Itself. By Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic
Featured ‘Half American’ explores how Black WWII servicemen were treated better abroad. By Dave Davies / NPR Podcast
Featured The 2024 election one year out: Don’t wait to panic about the polls. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured What the 2024 Election Is Really About for Trump Supporters. By Jonathan D. Karl / The Atlantic
Featured A century ago, a Black-owned team ruled basketball − today, no Black majority owners remain. By Jared Bahir Browah / The Conversation
Featured On Race, Mike Johnson Says His Views Were Shaped by Raising a Black Child. By Adam Nagourney / NYT
Featured The Black prosecutors taking on Trump know what they’re up against. By Paul Butler / Wash Post
Featured What the Black Struggle Tells Us About the Israel-Hamas War. By Zak Cheney-Rice / New York Magazine
Featured A Health Crisis Is Brewing for Black Kids. By Margo Snipe / Capital B
Featured This Is How the Republican Party Got Southernized. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Featured The Kingsleys. A Novel By Dr. Marvin Dunn / Amazon
Featured One nation on two divergent paths. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured A Political Standoff Over Affirmative Action. By Liam Knox / Inside Higher Education
Featured Gen. Milley strikes back at Trump in farewell speech: “We don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator.” By Tatyana Tandanpolie / Salon
Featured The Fight for Our America. By Heather Cox Richardson / The New Republic
Featured Black leaders say threats to undermine US democracy appear aimed at their community. By Ayanna Alexander / AP
Featured The Idea That Biden Should Just Give Up Political Power Is Preposterous. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Featured Alabama will mark the 60th anniversary of the 1963 church bombing that killed four Black girls. By The AP and NBC News
Featured PragerU’s Confederate classroom propaganda: Co-opting history to prop up modern insurrectionists. by Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Featured Democracy’s Assassins Always Have Accomplices. By Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt / NYT
Featured A DeSantis Speech Too Dangerous to Teach in Florida. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Featured Deion Sanders’ one consistent rule emerges in Colorado’s upset of TCU. By William C. Rhoden / Andscape
Featured More schools that forced American Indian children to assimilate revealed. By Dana Hedgpeth and Emmanuel Martinez / Wash Post
Featured ‘I Have a Dream,’ Yesterday and Today. By Darren Sands / NYT
Featured How Hip-Hop Became America’s Poetry. By John McWhorter / NYT
Featured Trump Is Constitutionally Prohibited From the Presidency. By J. Michael Luttig and Laurence H. Tribe / The Atlantic
Featured Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor who is taking on Trump. By Mariana Alfaro ,Holly Bailey and Tom Hamburger / Wash Post
Featured Why an Unremarkable Racist Enjoyed the Backing of Billionaires. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT – Image The Racket