News
Facebook Won’t Let Employers, Landlords or Lenders Discriminate in Ads Anymore. By Jack Gillum and Ariana Tobin / ProPublica
The entrenched segregation of New York City’s public high schools. By Rachel Leah / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (March 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Cornell Belcher schools progressives on what it will take to win the White House in 2020. Stephanie Griffith / ThinkProgress
Reparations are overdue: “Confronting the truth” about slavery means paying for it. By D. Watkins / Salon
Excellent James Baldwin speech in Berkeley (1979)
The New Zealand Shooting and the Great-Man Theory of Misery. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
New Zealand Shooting: White Supremacists and Jihadists Feed Off Each Other. By Rita Katz / The Daily Beast
The internet is radicalizing white men. Big tech could be doing more. By Alex Koppelman / CNN
Fewer Than 20 Percent Of Americans Say Trump Opposes White Nationalism. By Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost
Admissions scandal reveals ‘aristocracy masquerading as a meritocracy.’ By Ronald Brownstein / CNN
The college admissions scam opens a new front in the affirmative action debate. By John Blake / CNN
New York’s Most Elite High School Admits Just Seven Black Students in a Class of 900. By Molly Olmstead / Slate
Justices take up racial bias in Mississippi jury selection. By The Associated Press
Donna Brazile and Fox News are a bad pairing in the Trump era. By Rem Rieder / ThinkProgress
Can Florida go from swing state to blue? Andrew Gillum wants to try. By Addy Baird / ThinkProgress
Excluded by banks, minorities in California became their own lenders. By Frank Shyong / LATimes
Democrats Have Long Been Terrified of the White Moderate. Elizabeth Warren Apparently Has No Such Fear. By Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate
Race Inquiry Digest (March 25) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The entrenched segregation of New York City’s public high schools. By Rachel Leah / Salon
White Nationalism Is an International Threat. By Patrick Strickland / The Nation
The Longer History of the Christchurch Attacks. By David C. Atkinson / The Nation
The New Zealand Shooter’s Rhetoric Sounds Like Something You Might Hear In Congress. By Matt Fuller / HuffPost
Does anyone doubt that Donald Trump inspired the New Zealand massacre? By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
The Myth of White Meritocracy. By Linda Wiggins-Chavis / The Progressive
Who “belongs” at elite universities? The raging hypocrisy of higher ed gatekeeping. By Rachel Leah / Salon
Martin Luther King or Lonnie King, we all have the power to change America. By Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick / USA Today
This 8-Year-Old Chess Champion Will Make You Smile. By Nicholas Kristof / NYT
