Race Inquiry Digest (Sept 5) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Welcome to the Year of the Black Quarterback. By Jason Reid / The Undefeated
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Teaching America’s truth. By Joe Heim / Wash Post
Teaching Slavery : A Dark Legacy Comes to Light. By Joe Heim / Wash Post
The ‘1619 Project’ Curriculum Challenges Teachers to Reframe U.S. History. By Madeline Will / Education Week
Editorial: ‘The 1619 Project’ is landmark truth telling. By NCR Editorial Staff
Race Inquiry Digest (Sept 2) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – A fight over gifted education in New York is escalating a national debate over segregated schools. By Erin Einhorn / NBC News
The NBA”s Richest Shoe Deals: LeBron, Kobe and Durant Are Still No Match For Michael Jordan. By Kurt Bandenhausen / Forbes
Where Does Affirmative Action Leave Asian-Americans? By Jay Caspian Kang / NYT
Remember that new SAT ‘adversity score’? That’s no longer happening. By Kendall Tramell and Chris Boyette / CNN
Desegregation Plan: Eliminate All Gifted Programs in New York. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
Biden: Racism in U.S. a ‘white man’s problem.’ By Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico
Everyone is talking about 1619. But that’s not actually when slavery in America started. By Ciara Torres-Spelliscy / Wash Post
Why Doesn’t America Have Universal Health Care? One Word: Race. By Jeneen Interlandi / NYT 1619 Project
After shootings, El Paso and Latino groups amp up action against gun violence, white supremacy. By Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News
Mass shootings are a call to arms for some black Americans, not a moment for gun control. By Kim Trent / USA Today
40 Years After I Covered the Atlanta Child Murders, Trauma and Doubt Remain. By Vern Smith / Newsweek
Aaron Burr, the Vice President best known for shooting Alexander Hamilton, had a secret biracial family. By Leah Asmelash / CNN
Dave Chappelle’s Sticks & Stones Fights for the Rights of the Already-Powerful. By Inkoo Kang / Slate
Marian Anderson: The Most Modest Trailblazer. By Anastasia Tsioulcas / NPR
New Statue At U.S. Open Honors African American Tennis Pioneer Althea Gibson. By Richard Gonzales / NPR
We Aren’t Seeing White Support for Trump for What It Is. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (August 30) – Special Edition
Featured – Editorial: ‘The 1619 Project’ is landmark truth telling. By NCR Editorial Staff “Lynching Memorial Leaves Some Quietly Seething”
Race Inquiry Digest (August 29) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – We Aren’t Seeing White Support for Trump for What It Is. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
How Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Helps The Economy. By Ruth Umoh / Forbes
Nearly a third of Americans were alive during Jim Crow. By Phillip Bump / Wash Post
Creator of New York Times slavery project not surprised by conservative meltdown. By Sam Fulwood III / ThinkProgress
1619 and the cult of American innocence. By Zack Beauchamp / Vox
