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Oprah Winfrey on ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ – Salamishah Tillet / NYT
The United Incident Wasn’t Racism, But The Reaction From Asians Points To A Truth – Jessica Prois / Huff Post
Here’s How Jeff Sessions Is Preparing To Pack U.S. Prisons With Bodies – Christopher Brauchli / Huff Post
The Unreasonable Genius of Russell Westbrook – Sam Anderson / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (April 13) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Not enough time, too many news sources. The following are compelling stories on race and ethnicity that have been selected to inform our readers. Feature…
Minority Neighborhoods Pay Higher Car Insurance Premiums Than White Areas With the Same Risk – Julia Angwin et al / Propublica
Why Spicer Didn’t Count the Jewish Gas Victims – Michael Daly / The Daily Beast
The real story behind the famous Chappelle skit starring Charlie Murphy about Prince’s late-night hoops challenge – Jerry Bembry / The Undefeated
Death row lawyer Bryan Stevenson plans a lynching memorial in Alabama – Curtis Bunn / The Undefeated
For White America, It’s ‘Happy Days’ Again – Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone
Watch – A Story of Redemption in Flint, Michigan – Dana Romanoff and Nadine Ajaka / The Atlantic
What Mississippi Taught Bobby Kennedy About Poverty – Ellen B. Meacham / NYT
Texas voter ID law was designed to discriminate against minorities, judge rules – Paul J. Weber / Wash Post
Sonia Sotomayor: Not Everyone Can Just Pull Themselves ‘Up By The Bootstraps’ – Carolina Moreno / Huff Post
‘It Did Not Stick’: The First Federal Effort to Curb Police Abuse – Sheryl Gay Stolberg / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (April 10) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Not enough time, too many news sources. The following are compelling stories on race that have been selected to inform our readers. Feature – How Jeff…
America’s forgotten crisis: over 50% of one Native American tribe are homeless – Julian Brave NoiseCat / The Guardian
Watch Snoop Dogg, Alicia Keys Honor Tupac With Riveting Medley at Rock Hall – Elias Leight / Rolling Stone
How We Misunderstand Mass Incarceration – Adam Gopnik / The New Yorker
Why black lives still matter – Peniel E. Joseph / New Republic
An elite police squad was supposed to clean up the streets of 1970s Detroit. Instead, it terrorized African Americans – Mark Binelli / New Republic
The New Champions of School Integration – Richard Kahlenberg / The Atlantic
Donald Trump, Jews and the myth of race: How Jews gradually became “white,” and how that changed America – Jonathan Zimmerman / Salon
How Jeff Sessions wants to bring back the war on drugs – Sari Horwitz / Wash Post
Federal judge approves Baltimore police consent decree – Peter Hermann and Sari Horwitz / Wash Post
Trumps budget : Ideological conflicts between fiscal conservatism, white identity politics and right-wing populism – Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (April 6) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Not enough time, too many news sources. The following are compelling stories on race that have been selected to inform our readers. Feature – James…