Race Inquiry Digest (Sep 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured PragerU’s Confederate classroom propaganda: Co-opting history to prop up modern insurrectionists. by Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Racist Shootings “Don’t Happen in a Vacuum”: Bishop Barber on DeSantis, Trump & Those Who Spread Hate. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Ex-Leader of Proud Boys Sentenced to 22 Years in Jan. 6 Sedition Case. By Alan Feuer / NYT
A 2024 Trump-Biden Rematch Isn’t Boring. It’s Something Entirely New. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
Federal Court Throws Out Alabama Republicans’ Racist Congressional Map. By Tori Otten / The New Republic
Former White House aide wins crowded Democratic primary in Rhode Island special election. By Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News
America needs the Men of Morehouse. By Truth Jackson / Maroon Tiger
Military Academies Retain Affirmative Action in Admissions. By Lois Elfman / Diverse Issues in Higher Ed
The Voter ID Battle Returns to North Carolina. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
Elon Musk and the Idea that Jews Are to Blame for Anti-Semitism. By Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic
The Lord’s Supper Is a Multiethnic Love Feast. By Jamaal E. Williams and Timothy Paul Jones / Christianity Today
Sharing in Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream Now. A Conversation with Matt Daniels. By Russell Moore / Christianity Today Podcast
Robert Smalls and Reconstruction Politics. By Karen Cook Bell / AAIHS
Native tribe to get back land 160 years after largest mass hanging in US history. By AP and The Guardian
US has a long history of state lawmakers silencing elected Black officials and taking power from their constituents. By Rodney Coates / The Conversation
How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood. By Brandi Kellam and Louis Hansen / Propublica
The untold story of how Howard University came to be known as ‘The Mecca.’ By Jamal Abdul-Allm / The Conversation
Why dream hampton Won’t Give Up on Hip-Hop. By Spencer Kornhaber / The Atlantic
Authentically himself, Deion Sanders reflects a truer image of college football. By Jerry Brewer / Wash Post
Ben Shelton tops Frances Tiafoe in the first US Open quarterfinal between two Black men. By AP and The Grio
Black Players for Change’s Allen Hopkins: ‘We can eradicate racism in sport.’ By Matthew Hall / The Guardian
The Blind Side: Propagating The Myth Of Post-Racial America Through Film. By Gerald Nesmith / Essence
A DeSantis Speech Too Dangerous to Teach in Florida. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest (Sep 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Democracy’s Assassins Always Have Accomplices. By Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt / NYT
Watch “Destroyed! Sen. Cory Booker Obliterates Sen. Tim Scott & Repubs For Lies About Voting Rights.” By Roland Martin / You Tube
Biden calls Jacksonville shooting a `terrorist act’ driven by racial hatred. By Maureen Groppe / USA Today
When I Tell You Nikki Haley Is Pathetic, That’s an Understatement. By Frank Bruni / NYT
