Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured What Trump and Orbán want: It’s fascism — it’s not a metaphor or a joke. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured What Trump and Orbán want: It’s fascism — it’s not a metaphor or a joke. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured What if White people woke up with dark skin? Mohsin Hamid’s novel wonders. Review by Ron Charles / Wash Post
Featured Viktor Orbán laid out his dark worldview to the American right — and they loved it. By Zack Beauchamp / Vox
Featured Trump Has Big Plans for 2025. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Featured Jackie Robinson Made the Hall of Fame 60 Years Ago. His First Year in the Big Leagues Was Hell. By Ian Gordon / Mother…
Featured Legal Scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw: We Must Reclaim Critical Race Theory from Right-Wing Fearmongering / Democracy Now
Featured Jan. 6 hearings: A national civics lesson on the dangers of fascism. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured Jan. 6 committee’s Bennie Thompson, a historic Black lawmaker, sees echoes of America’s ‘dark history.’ By Kyla Guilfoil / ABC News
Featured Patrick Lyoya’s Death Casts A Light On How Police Mishandle Traffic Stops. By Phillip Jackson / HuffPost
Featured Racism is still a big problem in the US, but this trend offers some hope. By John Blake / CNN
Featured The Supreme Court’s originalism is white supremacy. By Baynard Woods / NBC News
Featured Why Did Republicans Become So Extreme? By Paul Krugman / NYT
Featured The case against the Supreme Court of the United States. By Ian Millhiser / Vox
Featured Beyond Jan. 6: Trump’s mob violence is now the standard GOP model. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Featured Juneteenth, as much as the Fourth of July, is America’s true birthday. By Peniel E. Joseph / CNN
Featured Democracy in America is a rigged game. By Ian Millhiser / Vox
Featured When a White Republican Teen Invited a Black Pastor to Preach in His Hometown. By Julie Beck / The Atlantic
Featured There will be no gun control: For many white Americans, the idea of the gun is all they have left. By Chris Hedges /…
Featured Book banning in the US: The authors of color censors are trying to silence. By Eliott C. McLauglin / CNN
Featured The Arrow in America’s Heart. By Elizabeth Dias / NYT
Featured Cowardice is the point of white supremacy, too. By Damon Young / Wash Post Magazine White supremacy is, essentially, an ecosystem built around the…
Featured Buffalo Shows the Double Terror of Being Black. By Ibram X. Kendi / The Atlantic Structural racism killed Black people in east Buffalo, and…
Featured Poll: Black Americans Think Racism Is a “Major Threat” and Getting Worse. By Pema Levy / Mother Jones
Featured Expert panel on the Buffalo shooter and what he stands for: “He was not a lone gunman.” By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured “Thomasine & Bushrod” Is a Blaxploitation Western That You Need to Stream. By Richard Brody / The New Yorker
Featured We must fight powerful bullies, whether they are Putin, Trump, or tech billionaires. By Robert Reich / The Guardian
Featured Yet Again, A Judicial Counterrevolution Looks To Chain The Country To An Imagined Past. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost