Race Inquiry Digest (Sept 30) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Elaine Massacre: Federal troops escorting African Americans to the schoolhouse in Elaine, Ark; October 1919. By Christina Maxouris / CNN
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Young Black Voters to Their Biden-Supporting Parents: ‘Is This Your King?’ By Astead W. Herndon / NYT
Warren shows how to integrate the fights against racial and economic inequality. By Ian Reifowitz / Daily Koz
By Striking for the Climate, We’re Striking Against Poverty and Racism Too. By William Barber and Liz Theoharis / Newsweek
Democrats Say They Want to End Mass Incarceration. There’s No Way They’ll Do What’s Needed to Get There. By Nathalie Baptiste / Mother Jones
Unilever’s Ads and the History of Sexual Abuse Under Slavery. By Thomas A. Foster / AAIHS
When Anti-Immigration Meant Keeping Out Black Pioneers. By Anna Lisa Cox / NYT
My Family’s Life Inside and Outside America’s Racial Categories. By Thomas Chatterton Williams / NYT
Reminder: ‘Hispanics,’ ‘Latinos,’ and ‘Latinx’ are not a race. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
DHS Warns Against Growing Threat Of White Supremacist Extremism Online. By Amy Russo / HuffPost
The Argument Against D.C. Statehood Is Rooted in Racism. By Nick Martin / The New Republic
‘SNL’ firing Shane Gillis isn’t enough. Asian stereotypes still support the white status quo. By Marie Myung-Ok Lee/ NBC News
Felicity Huffman: White is the color of remorse. By Michael Orsini and Linda Mussell / Salon
Trevor Noah Proposes ‘Buyback’ Scheme To Get Blackface Off The Streets. By Josie Harvey / HuffPost
Can a Trumpet Silence a Gun? Terence Blanchard Wants to Try. By Larry Blumenfeld / The Daily Beast
Ex-NBA superstar Kobe Bryant scores points as an investor by preaching patience. By Edward C. Baig / USA Today
More states are trying to protect black employees who want to wear natural hairstyles at work. By Jena McGregor / Wash Post
Exclusive: Martin Luther King Jr. Talks Reparations, White Economic Anxiety and Guaranteed income in a Previously Unheard Speech. By Michael Hariot / The Root
Race Inquiry Digest (Sept 26) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Keeanaga-Yamahtta Taylor Says There Is No Housing Crisis: ” It’s Just Housing Under Capitalism. By Nawal Arjini / The Nation
He was a Yale graduate, Wall Street banker and entrepreneur. Today he’s homeless in Los Angeles. By Dan Simon / CNN
Revisiting the Poor People’s Campaign and Its Legacy. By Bobby Cervantes / AAIHS
Reparations are essential to eliminating the substantial wealth gap between black and white Americans. By Christian Weller / The Conversation
Donald Trump, king of chaos: New research on right-wing psychology points toward big trouble ahead. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Republicans Don’t Believe in Democracy. By Paul Krugman / NYT
The Most Important Question Facing Americans Today. Who Counts? By Dahlia Lithwick / Slate
A central 2020 question for Democrats: How critical are working-class white voters? By Phillip Bump / Wash Post
Can Democrats attract enough Latinos to change politics as we know it? By Eugene Daniels / Politico
