Race Inquiry Digest (May 13) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Race and White Supremacy in American Policing: An Investigation. By Steve Volk / Rolling Stone
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
The space filled by Al Sharpton’s prayers and politics. By Robin Givhan / Wash Post
Trump’s Big Lie Devoured the G.O.P. and Now Eyes Our Democracy. By Thomas L. Friedman / NYT
Despite business warnings, GOP moves ahead with voting bills. By Acacia Coronado and Bill Barrow / ABC News
Attorney General Merrick Garland cites domestic terrorism and civil rights in defending budget to House lawmakers. By Christina Carrega, Chandelis Duster and Jessica Schneider / CNN
Asian-American Business Leaders Fund Effort to Fight Discrimination. By Andrew Ross Sorkin and Edmund Lee / NYT
Justice Clarence Thomas, Long Silent, Has Turned Talkative. By Adam Liptak / NYT
Help, We Can’t Stop Writing About Andrew Yang. By Ben Smith / NYT
Is America a Racist Country. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Joy Reid Takes Tucker Carlson’s ‘Race Lady’ Dog Whistle, Throws It Back At ‘Tuckums.’ By Lee Moran / HuffPost
As schools expand racial equity work, conservatives see a new threat in critical race theory. By Laura Meckler and Hannah Natanson / Wash Post
Some Black parents say remote learning gives racism reprieve. By Christine Fernando / AP and ABC News
Child Protective Services Investigates Half of all Black Children in California. By Julia Lurie / Mother Jones
White Covid vaccine rejectors threaten herd immunity. Can we change their minds in time? By Dr. Rob Davidson / NBC News
Erica Chidi Is Helping Black Women Understand Their Bodies In A Broken Health Care System. By Clare Fallon / HuffPost
The Entwined History of Freedom and Racism. By Olúfémi O. Táíwò / The Nation
The First Africans in America. Black America’s Neglected Origin Stories. By Annette Gordon-Reed / The Atlantic
1619 is a pivotal date in American history for two reasons. By Rebecca Ruiz / Mashable
GOP State Lawmaker Slammed For Saying 3/5 Compromise Aimed To End Slavery. By Josephine Harvey / HuffPost
VMI votes to scrub Stonewall Jackson from buildings. By Ian Shapira / Wash Post
Freedom Riders marker in Fredericksburg, Va., tells the ‘untold story.’ By Rachel Hatzipanagos / Wash Post
There’s No Classics ‘Catastrophe’ at Howard University. By Brandon Hogan and Jacoby Adeshei Carter / NYT
Freed by Bryan Stevenson, a former inmate writes his story. By Stuart Miller / LA Times
Carl Lumbly Never Misses. By Cole Delbyck / HuffPost
Willie Mays Carries the Torch for His Generation. By James S. Hirsch / NYT
Why were HBCU players shut out of 2021 NFL draft? By David Steele / The Undefeated
How civil rights attorney Ben Crump forged his own path. By AP and NBC News
