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Black Scholars Are Not ‘Rare Creatures. ‘When Purdue’s president said this, I had to respond because this myth is so pervasive. By G. Gabrielle Starr / NYT
Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah. By Siddhartha Mitter / NYT
Will Republicans be able to wipe Trump’s crimes from the history books? By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (Dec 9) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – States imprison black people at five times the rate of whites — a sign of a narrowing yet still-wide gap. Katie Mettler /…
The Powerful Perspective of “Queen & Slim.” By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
The Thanksgiving an imprisoned Jack Johnson fought two men at Leavenworth. By Roberto Jose Andrade Franco / The Undefeated
Confederate Monument Law Upheld By Alabama Supreme Court. By Brakkton Booker / NPR
Charlottesville votes to remove another statue, and more controversy follows. By Joe Heim / Wash Post
Rosa Parks statue to be unveiled Sunday in downtown Montgomery. By Sara MacNeil / USA Today
The Death of the Black Utopia. By Brent Staples / NYT
Stopping the erasure of Native Americans: Why I want to tell new Indigenous stories. By Sara Sinclair / Salon
Overlooked No More: Lillian Harris Dean, Culinary Entrepreneur Known as ‘Pig Foot Mary.’ By Amelia Nierenberg / NYT
It’s Not Just Poor White People Driving a Decline in Life Expectancy. By Gina Kolata and Sabrina Tavernise / NYT
Pulitzer winner David Cay Johnston: Will Trump’s America end in “firing squads”? By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Millions of Latinos are Trump supporters. Here’s what they’re thinking. By Ruben Navarrette Jr. / USA Today
Diversity marks latest class of U.S. Rhodes Scholars. By Associated Press / NBC News
We’re living in Jay-Z’s America. By Michael Eric Dyson / Wash Post
The game desegregating college football in the South happened 50 years ago. By Samuel G. Freedman / The Undefeated
Year of Return: Ghana Grants Citizenship to More Than 100 African-Americans, Afro-Caribbeans in Special ‘Homecoming’ Ceremony. By Tanasia Kenney / Atlanta Black Star
‘Watchmen’ Is A Powerful Exploration Of Black Trauma, And Everyone Needs To Watch. By Erin E. Evans / HuffPost
Race Inquiry Digest (Dec 5) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Will Republicans be able to wipe Trump’s crimes from the history books? By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Can American nationalism be saved? A debate with National Review editor Rich Lowry. By Sean Illing / Vox
A Racist Book’s Malign and Lingering Influence. By Elian Peltier and Nicholas Kulish / NYT
How America fractured. By Yaffa Fredrick / CNN
Radio host Thom Hartmann: If Trump’s re-elected, “we may slide into straight fascism.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
On and Off the Debate Stage, Democrats Contend with Race. By Eric Lach / The New Yorker Podcast
