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Race Inquiry Digest (January 1) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests ? Trump’s first year in office revived an age-old debate about why…
The Next Financial Crisis Will Be Worse Than the Last One – Nomi Prins / Truthdig via Alternet
Will America Ever Really Trust Black Women? Mychal Denzel Smith / New Republic
The Rise and Fall of the Racist Right – Vegas Tenold / New Republic
The show was supposed to bring black and white students together. It almost tore them apart – Robert Samuels / Wash Post
S. Allen Counter : Harvard neurophysiologist, explorer, ethnographer, social-justice advocate – Michael Paterniti / NYT
How the news media distorts black families – Nicole Rodgers and Rashad Robinson / Wash Post
Arizona Can’t Ban Mexican-American Studies Anymore, Judge Says – Roque Planas / HuffPost
Sessions Says to Courts: Go Ahead, Jail People Because They’re Poor – Chiraag Bains / NYT
Watch – The 5 best hip-hop albums of 2017 – Rachel Leah / Salon
Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests? Joshua Zeitz / Politico
Race Inquiry Digest (December 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Dr. King’s Interconnected World. Fifty years ago Sunday — Christmas Eve 1967 — the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in his…
Pot Legalization Is Transforming California’s Criminal Justice Landscape. Here’s How – Brandon E. Patterson / Mother Jones
The opioid epidemic has now reached black America – German Lopez / Vox
The Trump-Less Kennedy Center Honors – Sarah Ruhl / NYT
William Barber II: Trump’s Terrible Choice for Judge – William Barber II / NYT
24 Of The Most Thought-Provoking Pieces Of Writing By People Of Color In 2017 – Zeba Bay / HuffPost
Dave Chappelle has a message for ‘poor white’ Trump supporters – Eugene Scott / Wash Post
Cornel West’s Reckless Criticism of Ta-Nehisi Coates – Ismail Muhammad / Slate
Confederate statues come down in Memphis – Emanuella Grinberg and Nicole Chavez / CNN
Jay Z’s New Music Video Uses America’s Long History of Racist Cartoons to Deliver a Haunting Message – Austin Elias-de-Jesus / Slate
Dr. King’s Interconnected World – Drew Dellinger / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (December 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Holiday Brilliance of Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas.” If Donny Hathaway had lived to see “This Christmas” enshrined as the black Christmas anthem—a…
The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta by Maurice J. Hobson
The dangerous belief that white people are under attack – Clara Wilkins / The Conversation
Poverty in America is a moral outrage. The soul of our nation is at stake – Dr. William Barber and Dr. Liz Theoharris / The Guardian
