Race Inquiry Digest (Sep 6) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured White supremacy, with a tan. By John Blake / CNN
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
MLK Warned Us About Moderates. Are We Listening? By Cliff Albright / Politico
Capitol cop who shot Ashli Babbitt defends his decision — and says he saved lives. By Brad Reed / Raw Story
The Supreme Court has repeatedly sided with the police. Black Americans are paying the price. By Brandon Tensley / CNN
Brace Yourself for the Man Who Could Become California’s Governor. By Farhad Manjoo / NYT
Breakthrough mayor’s race creates tough choice for Boston. By Lisa Kashinsky / Politico
How race permeates the politics of gun control. By Brandon Tensley / CNN
DNA Tests May Increase Census Count Of Multiracial Population. By Hansi Lo Wang / NPR
Black women and the pandemic: A crisis within a crisis. By Nicquel Terry Ellis and Adrienne Broaddus / CNN
Black doctors on tackling the myths that fuel vaccine hesitancy. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
The Black church has major generational challenges. Here’s what we’re doing about it. By T.D. Jakes and Sarah Jakes Roberts / Wash Post
New York’s Private Schools Tackle White Privilege. It Has Not Been Easy. By Michael Powell / NYT
Planting trees to offset the legacy of racist housing policies. By Joe Purtell / Salon
During the 1963 March on Washington, these Black girls were locked up in Georgia. By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff / Wash Post
The Black Roots of “Rights and Privileges” By Kerri Greenidge / AAIHS
U.S. boarding schools for Indians had a hidden agenda: Stealing land. By Brenda J. Child / Wash Post
He’s In Prison For Killing A Trooper. Now, Some Black Police Groups Want Him Released. By Sharon Pruitt Young / NPR
‘There’s Been Moments of Intense Fear, Anxiety and Joy’: What Life Is Like for 13-Year-Old Black Genius Who Just Began His Freshman Year at Georgia Tech. By Kavontae Smalls / Atlanta Black Star
Aretha Franklin and the Futility of Trying to Portray Her Onscreen. By Salamishah Tillet / NYT
Chadwick Boseman’s death shed light on colon cancer, but rates remain high among Black people. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Lee Morgan’s ‘Live at the Lighthouse’ was a masterpiece that turned out to be a farewell. By Shannon J. Effinger / Wash Post
A Triumphant Debut Novel on Black History and Coming of Age in the South. By Veronica Chambers / NYT
Paralympian David Brown Is The World’s Fastest Blind Runner. By Rachel Treisman / NPR
Serena Williams doesn’t need another Grand Slam. She has nothing left to prove. By Sally Jenkins / Wash Post
Jameis Winston to succeed Drew Brees as Saints QB, beating out Taysom Hill. By Mark Maske / Wash Post
Washington voting rights march marks Martin Luther King anniversary. By Ankita Rao / The Guardian
BREAKING: The NAACP scored a *huge* victory for voting rights today (really!) By Blue Tuesday / Daily Kos
