Race Inquiry Digest (Sep 29 – Oct 3) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Just how racist is the MAGA movement? This survey measures it. By Jenifer Rubin / Wash Post
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
How the Second Civil War Could Start. By Major Garrett and David Becker / The Bulwark
What Stacey Abrams is really doing in Georgia. By Dahlia Lithwick / Slate
Poll: Personal and national factors collide in tight Georgia Senate race. By Fred Backus, Jennifer De Pinto , Anthony Salvanto and Kabir Khanna / CBS News
Former federal prosecutor: A “day of reckoning” is coming for Trump — but he’s not going to jail. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Supreme Court affirmative action cases could affect workplace next. By John Fritze / USA Today
State Investigation Reveals Racial Disparities in Student Discipline and Police Involvement. By Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Smith Richards / ProPublica
Jackson water crisis spurs calls to bring the federal hammer down on Mississippi. By Annie Snider / Politico
Where do Latino voters stand on abortion? Just about everywhere. By Nicole Narea / Vox
George Floyd Killing: Ex-Officer Lane Gets Three Years In Prison. By Madeline Halpert / Forbes
DNA test databases lack diversity, hinder search for missing children. By N’dea Yancey-Bragg, Sasha Ndisabiye and Rachel Looker / USA Today
Biden includes faith leaders in summit’s charge to ‘rise together against hate.’ By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Most Republicans Support Declaring the United States a Christian Nation. By Stella Rouse and Shibley Telhami / Politico
‘Honk for Jesus’ provides an uncomfortable reflection of the Black church. By Candice Marie Benbow / NCR
Private Religious Schools Have Public Responsibilities Too. By Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers / The Atlantic
Reckoning with the Slave Ship Clotilda. By Vera Caruthers / The New Yorker
Online Forum–Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America. By AAIHS Editors
Ibram X. Kendi encourages kids to ask difficult questions about U.S. history. By Jonathan Capehart Podcast / Wash Post
Sesame Street’ has its first Black female puppeteer. By Sydney Page / Wash Post
Abbott Elementary’ is the rare sitcom with something for everyone. By Inkoo Kang / Wash Post
“Unusual to Have…”- 42-Year-Old Venus Williams Makes a Delightful Confession About Sister Serena Williams. By Aditya R. Menon / Essentially Sports
The Messy Politics of the NBA. By Jeremy Gordon / The Nation
How the NFL blocks Black coaches. By Dave Sheinin, Michael Lee, Emily Giambalvo , Artur Galocha and Clara Ence Morse / Wash Post
Coach Leonard Hamilton: ‘The Worse the Program, the More I Became Interested.’ By Billy Witz / NYT
Maury Wills, Master of the Stolen Base, Is Dead at 89. By Richard Goldstein / NYT
Las Vegas Aces Win First W.N.B.A. Championship. By Kris Rhim / NYT
The Perils and Promise of America’s Third Reconstruction. By Pennel E. Joseph / Time
Race Inquiry Digest (Sep 26) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Jim Crow’s Forgotten History of Homicides. By Jennifer Szalai / NYT