Race Inquiry Digest (February 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – New York City Public Schools Should Be Evaluated Based on Diversity, Not Just Tests, Panel Says. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
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The Empty Quarters of U.S. Politics. By Paul Krugman / NYT
African-Americans’ economic setbacks from the Great Recession are ongoing – and could be repeated. By Vincent Adejumo / The Conversation
Cleaner Classrooms and Rising Scores: With Tighter Oversight, Head Start Shows Gains. By Jason DeParle / NYT
Dying while black: Perpetual gaps exist in health care for African-Americans. By Yolanda Wilson / The Conversation
Black America Knows White Avengers Like Liam Neeson All Too Well. Roland S. Martin / The Daily Beast
When the Suffrage Movement Sold Out to White Supremacy. By Brent Staples / NYT
Brian Flores, Chris Grier and the need to succeed in Miami. By Jason Reid / The Undefeated
Teddy Pendergrass Doc to Premiere on Showtime This Month. By Jon Blisten / Rolling Stone
“American Soul,” Reviewed: “Soul Train” and the Making of a Mogul. By Troy Petterson / The New Yorker
State of the Union 2019: A Stacey Abrams essay you should read. By Zack Beauchamp / Vox
Race Inquiry Digest (February 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – How Trump Continues to Use Race as a Prop. By Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
Policies that harm black bodies deserve the same outrage as blackface. By Shanita Hubbard / The Guardian
On Langston Hughes’s 115th birthday, read his ambivalent ode to America. By Constance Grady / Vox
The Super Bowl is a showdown of America’s dueling values: commerce and conscience. By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar / The Guardian
European colonizers killed so many Native Americans that it changed the global climate, researchers say. By Laurent Kent / CNN
A federal law is hurting Native American children. It must be struck down. By Ken Paxton / Wash Post
The Will to Kill, in Black and White. Race has played a heavy hand in the fates of soldiers facing death sentences in the U.S. military. By Bill Lueders / The Progressive
Fighting Without A Gun: Being Black In World War II. By HuffPost Video
Lift Every Voice and Sing ( The Undefeated Mix) Featuring Aloe Blacc and special guests The String Queens / By The Undefeated
Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” is one of the greatest speeches in American rhetoric. By Constance Grady / Vox
Cory Booker’s 2020 policy agenda: ‘Baby bonds,’ criminal justice reform, action on climate change. By Jeff Stein / Wash Post
Will Anyone Save Black Colleges? By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
Northam’s ugly yearbook photo and the racist origins of blackface. By Michael Brice-Saddler, Jessica Contrera and DaNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (February 7) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – State of the Union 2019: A Stacey Abrams essay you should read. By Zack Beauchamp / Vox
It’s not that Tom Brokaw is racist. It’s that he’s wrong. By Isaac Bailey / CNN
Ignorance about the Holocaust is growing. By Harry D. Wall / CNN
