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‘When They See Us’ Trailer: Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five Mini-Series Features Felicity Huffman. By Bruce Fretts / NYT
The Complexities of the Black Vote. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Why the Notre Dame fire is getting the attention America’s burned black churches never could. By George Johnson / NBC News
Arkansas To Remove Confederate Statue In U.S. Capitol, Add Johnny Cash, Daisy Bates. By Ed Mazza / HuffPost
Ancestry.com Pulls Ad That Whitewashes Slavery With Interracial Romance. By Elyse Wanshel / HuffPost
Can Black Evangelicals Save the Whole Movement? By Molly Waorthen / NYT
Beyoncé’s “Homecoming” transforms the concert film into an artistic, historic moment. By Melanie McFarland / Salon
How I learned to love my afro hair: ‘I went from tolerating it to enjoying it’ By Emma Dabiri / The Guardian
Dwyane Wade Supports His Gay Black Son, And Here’s Why It Matters So Much. By Joshua Mackey / Blavity
Inciting Hatred Is Trump’s 2020 Game Plan. By John Nichols / The Nation
Race Inquiry Digest (April 25) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Closing the Racial Wealth Gap. By Courtney E. Martin / NYT
Review: Essential History in ‘Reconstruction’ on PBS. By Mike Hale / NYT
When Slaveowners Got Reparations. By Tera W. Hunter / NYT
Vanderbilt Student Senate Approves Bill to Rename Calhoun Hall, Two More Buildings Due to Slave-Owning Past. By Jenni Fink / Newsweek
Has Germany Forgotten the Lessons of the Nazis? By Paul Hockenos / NYT
Robert Reich on America’s inequality crisis: Trump’s “greedy enablers” will “reap the whirlwind.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
When Medical Schools Become Less Diverse. By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
Facing Segregated Schools, Parents Took Integration Into Their Own Hands. It’s Working. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
Aretha Franklin wins posthumous 2019 Pulitzer Prize. By Associated Press
Trump and Pence tweeted about Notre Dame fire but said nothing when 3 black churches burned. By Eugene Scott / Wash Post
Can a Prosecutor Ever Truly Be Progressive? Ferguson May Be the Ultimate Test Case. By Jacob Rosenberg / Mother Jones
Jackie Robinson was asked to denounce Paul Robeson. Instead, he went after Jim Crow. By Johnny Smith / The Undefeated
Tiger Woods in plain sight. By William C. Rhoden / The Undefeated Video
White Coaches Pick the Wrong Side When They Talk Down to Their Black Athletes. By Andre Perry / The Root
Demonizing Minority Women. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (April 22) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Inciting Hatred Is Trump’s 2020 Game Plan. By John Nichols / The Nation