Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor who is taking on Trump. By Mariana Alfaro ,Holly Bailey and Tom Hamburger / Wash Post
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Trump attacks special counsel Jack Smith and judge assigned to 2020 election case. By Rebecca Shabad / NBC News
How GOP’s candidates of color navigate a party that downplays racism. By Marianne LeVine, Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Dylan Wells / Wash Post
The Uses of Affirmative Action. By Adolph Reed Jr. / The Nation
DeSantis Doubles Down on ‘Benefits’ of Slavery: ‘They Developed Skills.’ By Dan Ladden-Hall / Daily Beast
Right-wing Cancel Culture Has a Home at Texas A&M University. By Robert McCoy / The Daily Beast
Tennessee Dems Expelled After Gun Protest Win Back Seats In Special Election. By Emine Yucel / TPM
What Black Women’s Equal Pay Day Can Teach Executives About Being Better Allies. By Kalina Bryant / Forbes
Charles J. Ogletree Jr., 70, Dies; at Harvard Law, a Voice for Equal Justice. By Clay Risen / NYT
For some Black faith leaders, Ohio’s Issue 1 is bigger than abortion. By Kathryn Post / RNS
He was a church official who criticized Trump. He says Christianity is in crisis. By Scott Detrow, Gabriel J. Sánchez, and Sarah Handel / NPR
“It’s a Way of Reparations”: Why Henrietta Lacks Settlement Matters for Bioethics & Racial Justice. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Why Christians need to support diversity professionals, not demonize them. By Michelle Loyd-Paige / RNS
’10 Million Names’ project aims to recover hidden history of enslaved African Americans. By Terri Martin and Allie Weintraub / ABC News
A brief history of the Ku Klux Klan Acts: 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump. By Joseph Patrick Kelly / The Conversation
Henry Cort stole his iron innovation from Black metallurgists in Jamaica. By Regina G. Barber, Carly Rubin , Berly McCoy, Rebecca Ramirez / NPR
Activists Have Long Called for Charleston to Confront Its Racial History. Tourists Are Now Expecting It. By Jennifer Berry Hawes / Propublica
‘12 years of hell’: Indian boarding school survivors share their stories. By Dana Hedgpeth / Wash Post
When Confederate-glorifying monuments went up in the South, voting in Black areas went down. By Alexander N. Taylor / The Conversation
James McBride’s new book is his latest Great American Novel. By Laura Miller / Slate
The Root’s Essential James Baldwin 99th Birthday Reading List. By Angela Johnson / The Root
Remembering the Rappers We Lost. By Danyel Smith / NYT
“We Used to Win Here”: A Salon film. By Alexandra Clinton and D. Watkins / Salon
World Cup 2023: Why conservatives hate the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team. By Luke Winkie / Slate
Simone Biles wins her first competitive gymnastics event since 2021, qualifies for US national championships. By Jill Martin, George Ramsay and Homero De la Fuente / CNN
his (ex-)Heisman winner was punished for something that is essential today. By Rick Reilly / Wash Post
Bigger than myself’: Young Black ballplayers feel a sense of mission. By Michael Lee / Wash Post
