Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 31) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured More schools that forced American Indian children to assimilate revealed. By Dana Hedgpeth and Emmanuel Martinez / Wash Post
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
“He learned from studying Hitler’s speeches”: Leading civil rights lawyer on 20 ways Trump is a copy. By Steven Rosenfeld / Salon
Guns, Republicans and “manliness”: We all suffer from the right’s mental health crisis. By Kirk Swearingen / Salon
Federal judges rule against provisions of GOP-backed voting laws in Georgia and Texas. CBS News
Proud purple to angry red: These Florida residents feel unwelcome in ‘new’ Florida. By Tom McLaughlin / USA Today
White college grads are Democrats’ new firewall. Will they hold in 2024? By Ruy Teixeira / Wash Post
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy, on center stage at Republican debate? By Marisa Lati / Wash Post
As the 2024 election revs up, Asian Americans rise as a powerful voting bloc. By Sahil Kapur / NBC News
A right-wing sheriffs group that challenges federal law is gaining acceptance around the country. By TJ L’Heureux, Adrienne Washington, Albert Serna Jr. Anisa Shabir and Isaac Stone Simonelli / ABC News
Conservative activist sues 2 major law firms over diversity fellowships. By Julian Mark and Taylor Telford / Wash Post
Supreme Court asked to hear Virginia high school admissions case concerning race. By Reuters and NBC News
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders targets teachers over African American Studies. By Laura Clawson / Daily Kos
Buffalo shooting witnesses file lawsuit over trauma they endured. By Geoff Bennett and Sam Lane / PBS
Robert Jones’ new book roots white supremacy in 500-year-old papal decree. By Yonat Shimron / RNS
When Donald Trump divides the house at church. By Clarence Page / Chicago Tribune
Donald Trump’s last line of defense: Ramp up the “transactional antisemitism.” By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Once a Force in Harlem, the Oldest Black Church in New York Hangs On. By Mia Jackson / NYT
I left the church — and now long for a ‘church for the nones.’ By Perry Bacon Jr. / Wash Post
Howard Zinn at 101: Needed Now More Than Ever. By Eleanor J. Bader / The Progressive
The Scary Third Meaning of Freedom. By Felicia Wong and Michael Tomasky / TNR Podcast
For true national unity, the Confederate Memorial at Arlington must go. By Charles Lane / Wash Post
How the words of ‘I Have a Dream’ soared and challenged the nation 60 years ago. By John Avlon / CNN
Don’t listen to the critics: reparations for slavery will right historical wrongs. By Kenneth Mohammed / The Guardian
A Black man’s brutal murder has faded from a Texas town’s memory. By Emanuel Felton / Wash Post
The Met Announces Harlem Renaissance Exhibition for 2024. By Zachary Small / NYT
Soul Music Legend Al Green Releases Absolutely Perfect Lou Reed Cover. By Ed Mazza / HuffPost
What Kind of Artist Was Wayne Shorter? By Richard Brody / The New Yorker
Deion Sanders, be it by sermon, commercial or YouTube, can still sell anything. By Christopher Kamrani / The Atheletic
Sha’Carri Richardson is back and a world champion. By Matenzie Johnson / Andscape
Simone Biles is back — and still doing what other gymnasts don’t even try. By Emily Giambalvo / Wash Post
Shohei Ohtani is doing things on a baseball diamond that scramble the mind. By Joe Posnanski / Wash Post
