Race Inquiry Digest (Feb 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Our democracy faced a near-death experience. Here’s how to revive it. By Stacey Abrams / Wash Post
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
GOP Lawmakers Seek Tougher Voting Rules After Record Turnout, Election Losses. By Associated Press and HuffPost
Word to the President: To Help Black America, Focus on Race. By Janell Ross / Time
A hidden pandemic: Grief in the African American community. By Mishal Reja / ABC News
‘We are facing extinction’: Black farmers in steep decline. By Roxana Hegeman / ABC News
Navy must do more to counter hate speech and improve diversity, new task force finds. By Dan Lamothe / Wash Post
Morehouse College to launch online program aimed at helping Black men with some credits finish degree. By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel / Wash Post
White Conservatives Lose It After Black Lives Matter and Stacey Abrams Are Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize. By Isheka N. Harrison / Atlanta Black Star
Why Are There So Few Black Economists at the Fed? By Jeanna Smialek / NYT
Mind Boggling’ and ‘Deadly.’ This Is the Trump V.A.’s Racist Legacy. By Jasper Craven / NYT
Black History Month: Meet the man who created it. By CNN Staff
My great-grandmother exposed lynchings. This is what she would say about the Capitol riot. By Michelle Duster / CNN
The Real Rosa Parks Story Is Better Than the Fairy Tale. By Jeanne Theoharis / NYT
Trump’s 1776 Commission Was Unintentionally Revealing. By Michael Kazin / NYT
He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive? By Rachel Poser / NYT
What this 18th century poet reveals about Amanda Gorman’s success. By Manisha Sinha / CNN
Authors Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain on new historical book “Four Hundred Souls” By CBS This Morning
10 of the best fiction books by Black authors in 2021. By Kala Herh / NBC News
‘The Hate U Give’ author Angie Thomas on the importance of humanizing Black men. By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post Podcast
Robert Jones Jr.’s debut novel reclaims Black identity, pushing the slavery narrative beyond suffering. By Derrick Clifton / NBC News
Blackness, Dehumanized: A Black Feminist Analysis of ‘Bridgerton.’ By Shaun Armstead / AAIHS
Netflix’s ‘Bling Empire’ flaunts Asian 1% privilege amid the Covid pandemic. By Michelle Yang / NBC News
Chris Rock: Truth, therapy and punchlines. By CBS News
Judas and the Black Messiah review – electric Black Panthers drama. By Peter Bradshaw / The Guardian
Shemekia Copeland reigns as the greatest blues singer of her generation. Now she wants to fuse politics with the blues. By Carlo Rotella / Wash Post Magazine
Doug Williams set path for Mahomes but racism still factor in NFL. By Mike Freeman / USA Today
Deshaun Watson is taking a stand against disingenuous NFL owners. It could change the league. By Jerry Brewer / Wash Post
Kylin Hill fought to change the Mississippi flag. Next up: The NFL. By Michael Lee / Wash Post
Bruce Arians has made diversity among staff a priority as Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach. By Jim Martin / CNN
Democracy or the white supremacist mob: which side is the Republican party on? By Richard Wolffe / The Guardian
Democrats have prevailed, but Trumpism is still here. We can’t be complacent. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post
