Race Inquiry Digest (June 26) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Sacrificing Black Lives for the American Lie. Americans refuse to see their country as a place where racist politicians and judges maintain laws…
Feature – Sacrificing Black Lives for the American Lie. Americans refuse to see their country as a place where racist politicians and judges maintain laws…
Feature – Understanding Contemporary White Supremacy. Our panel of scholars on what we get wrong about white supremacy, and whether persecuting racists does any good. Read…
Feature – Philando Castile and This Savage System. My own experience on a grand jury showed me why so many young men of color are locked…
Feature – A Resolution Condemning White Supremacy Causes Chaos at the Southern Baptist Convention. At its annual meeting, the evangelical denomination initially declined to consider…
Feature – A Celebration of Black Lawyers, Past and Present. Thurgood Marshall, pictured here at a meeting of the N.A.A.C.P. in the mid-nineteen-fifties, was one…
Feature – Yes, there is a free speech crisis. But its victims are not white men. Women, people of color and politicians standing up to…
Feature – The Myth of the Kindly General Lee. The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a…
Feature – Will Donald Trump Ever Say the Words ‘White Supremacist Terrorism’? POTUS loved whacking Hillary for not saying ‘Islamic fundamentalist terrorism.’ But how come when…
Feature – Maryland and Manchester: We can’t let heinous attacks overseas obscure our homegrown terrorism problem. Yes, Islamist extremism is a worldwide threat. But we’re…
Feature – Mitch Landrieu Reminds Us That Eloquence Still Exists. His speech on the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans is one of the…