Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Fascism or freedom? America is stuck in an ugly and dangerous in-between. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Dear Democrats: Only 10% of People Even Know What You Are Fighting For. Tim Miller / The Bulwark
Schiff’s book reveals how Republican loyalty to Trump threatened democracy. By Stephanie Kotuby and Geoffrey Lou Guray / PBS
Herschel Walker fumbles, cancels fundraiser after pressure over host’s swastika profile pic. By Rebekah Sager / Daily Kos
Tim Scott rakes in $8.3M for reelection, possible 2024 bid. By Alex Isenstadt / Politico
The Unsure State of Asian America. By Rosemarie Ho / The Nation
Black Americans are incarcerated at nearly five times the rate of Whites, new report on state prisons finds. By Christina Carrega / CNN
2020 Census may have undercounted Black Americans, new analyses say. By Tara Bahrampour / Wash Post
WHO honors Henrietta Lacks, woman whose cells served science. By Jamey Keaten / AP and ABC News
They Gave Black Mothers in Mississippi $1,000 a Month. It Changed Their Lives. By Bryce Covert / The New Republic
This scrupulous biography of Robert E. Lee is exactly what the country needs. By George Will / Wash Post
Bryan Stevenson, Legacy Museum founder, on American enslavement and modern-day incarceration. By Jamil Smith / Vox
Monument honoring indigenous women to replace Columbus statue in Mexico City. By AP and NPR
Mary McLeod Bethune statue to replace Confederate general in Capitol. By Eileen Zaffiro-Kean / USA Today
Black Women, Self-Making, and Liberty. By Ashley Everson / AAIHS
Tanzanian Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah Awarded Nobel Prize In Literature for ‘Uncompromising’ Novels on the Impact of Colonialism. By Angelina Valesquez / Atlanta Black Star
Timuel Black Jr., historian and civil rights activist, dies at 102. By Grace Hauck and Javonte Anderson / USA Today
Rolling Stones Pulling Brown Sugar from Concerts for Lyrics on Slavery. By Vanessa Etienne / People
DeMaurice Smith opens up on Jon Gruden, racism in the NFL. By Mike Jones / USA Today
Jack Johnson and Africa: Boxing and Race in Colonial Africa.By Abraham Tapiwa Seda / AAIHS
In Atlanta and Milwaukee, a season without Hank Aaron leaves ‘a void.’ By Michael Lee / Wash Post
Nets say Kyrie Irving is ineligible to play amid drama over his vaccination status. By Scott Neuman / NPR
White America’s “hidden wound” threatens to destroy the country — and not for the first time. Kirk Swearingen / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured How I Learned That Jesus Is Black. By Dante’ Stewart / NYT (Print by Stanley Rayfield)
A New Confederacy: Trump and the Republicans have already seceded. By Lucian K. Truscott IV / Salon
Can America Reform Policing and Fight Crime at the Same Time? By Charles M. Blow / NYT
‘Echoes of the Past’: Study Points to Redlining as a Factor in Premature Birth, Maternal Health. By Joseph P. Williams / US news
