Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 10) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured A Lost Manuscript Shows the Fire Barack Obama Couldn’t Reveal on the Campaign Trail. By Timothy Shenk / NYT
Featured A Lost Manuscript Shows the Fire Barack Obama Couldn’t Reveal on the Campaign Trail. By Timothy Shenk / NYT
Featured ‘There Are Two Americas Now: One With a B.A. and One Without.’ By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Featured Just how racist is the MAGA movement? This survey measures it. By Jenifer Rubin / Wash Post
Featured Jim Crow’s Forgotten History of Homicides. By Jennifer Szalai / NYT
Featured The Perils and Promise of America’s Third Reconstruction. By Pennel E. Joseph / Time
Featured Ken Burns on the Holocaust, FDR, and Anti-Semitism. Michael Tomasky / The New Republic Podcast
Featured The cost of reparations. By Fabiola Cineas / Vox
Featured Walker downplays racism in historic Georgia Senate campaign while casting Warnock as divisive. By Marc Caputo and Henry J. Gomez / NBC News
Featured School Is for Making Citizens. By Heather C. McGhee and Victor Ray / NYT
Featured Mississippi’s Dry Run for Eco-Apartheid. By Kate Aronoff / The New Republic
Featured Fear of Fascism. By Tom Nichols / The Atlantic
Featured Is Martin Luther King’s dream still alive? By Peniel E. Joseph / CNN
Featured Jan. 6 hearings are about race even if it’s not being talked about. Sandhya Dirks / NPR
Featured I Taught My 4th Grade Class About White Privilege And Their Response Was Eye-Opening. By Justin Mazzola / HuffPost
Featured Learning and Healing in the Archive of Black Thought. By Edna Bonhomme / The Nation
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