Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 9) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Europe in 1989, When the Berlin Wall Fell, America in 2020, and the Death of the Lost Cause. By David W. Blight / The…
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Trump’s only campaign promise is to make bigotry safe again. By Eugene Robinson / Wash Post
White Voters Are Abandoning Trump. And they’re doing so for a surprising reason. By David A. Graham / The Atlantic
Yes, Even George Washington. Slavery was a cruel institution that can’t be excused by its era. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
What we can do now about Stone Mountain’s 150ft Confederate carving. By Ryan Gravel and Scott Morris / The Guardian
The Racism of “Ole Miss” Is Hiding in Plain Sight. By Becca Andrews / Mother Jones
Elijah McClain’s death is an unspeakable outrage. By Editorial Board / Wash Post
How the Trump Campaign Is Drawing Obama Out of Retirement. By Glenn Thrush and Elaina Plott / NYT
Camden Didn’t Defund Its Police Department—It Just Handed It Off. By Hank Kalet / The Progressive
Five Big Ideas To Narrow The Racial Wealth Gap. By Jeff Kauflin and Janet Novack / Forbes
Reparations bill gains steam following death of George Floyd. By Mike Lillis / The Hill
“I Could Easily Be George Floyd”: Wall Street’s Senior Black Banker Talks About Biggie and the Hope of BLM. By William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair
The case for Keisha Lance Bottoms for veep. By Christina Cauterucci / Slate
‘Begin Again’ Calls on James Baldwin to Make Sense of Today. By Jennifer Szalai / NYT
Jennifer Hudson Is Note-Perfect As Aretha Franklin In First ‘Respect’ Trailer. By Curtis M. Wong / HuffPost
Colin Kaepernick’s Life Is Being Turned Into A Netflix Series With Ava DuVernay. By Cole Delbyck / HuffPost
Cam Newton plays for Bill Belichick now, and the possibilities are endless. By Adam Kilgore / Wash Post
Trump has America staring down the barrel of a gun. By Leonard Pitts Jr. / Miami Herald
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 6) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – America is facing a reckoning over race, but we’ve seen this before. By Michael A. Fletcher / The Undefeated
‘It Is Time for Reparations.’ By Nikole Hanna-Jones / NYT Magazine
Donald Trump or America? By Leonard Pitts / The Miami Herald
Black Lives Matter Wants to End Police Brutality. History Suggests It Will Go Much Further. By Jon Schwarz / The Intercept
Repair & Revive: Rev. William Barber on Fighting Racism. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
South Carolina congressman Jim Clyburn: ‘If Biden doesn’t win, US democracy will crumble.’ By Daniel Strauss / The Guardian
Census shows white decline, nonwhite majority among youngest Americans. By The Associated Press / NBC News
What Charles Booker’s run tells us about the 2020 election. By Howard Fineman / Wash Post
For Biden VP, Black Democrats are torn between Harris and Warren. By Sahil Kapur / NBC News
How Congress Can Save Black Lives. By Cory Booker and Kamala Harris / Rolling Stone
How racism became the essential tool for maintaining a capitalist order. By Richard D. Wolff / Salon
You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument. By Caroline Randall Williams / NYT
Yes, the Freedmen’s Memorial uses racist imagery. But don’t tear it down. By David W. Blight / Wash Post
