Race Inquiry Digest (Jan 30) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Donald Trump and his demons: Why the assault on democracy will get worse. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
I spent MLK Day reading Stephen Miller’s racist emails. Here’s why. Chauncey DeVega / Salon
The Agitated M.L.K. I Came to Love. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Trump’s election was personal: It’s white America’s vicious backlash to black success. By Howard Bryant / Salon
Why Trump Persists. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Auschwitz survivors bear witness as anti-Semitic attacks rise. By Melissa Bell / CNN
The Neighborhoods We Will Not Share. By Richard Rothstein / NYT
Ella Baker’s Legacy Runs Deep. Know Her Name. By Barbara Ransby / NYT
More Slayings at Parchman as Mississippi Confronts Prison Crisis. By Rick Rojas / NYT
Rural Montana Had Already Lost Too Many Native Women. Then Selena Disappeared. By Jack Healy / NYT
The Necessity of the Indian Child Welfare Act. By Leah Litman and Matthew L M. Fletcher / The Atlantic
Charles Fuller’s ‘A Soldier’s Play’ Is a Brilliant, Searing Indictment of Racism on Broadway. By Tim Teeman / Daily Beast
Without Players’ Protest, NFL Won’t Be Pressured Into Hiring Black Coaches. By William C. Rhoden / The Undefeated
Featured – ‘Just Mercy’ Attorney Asks U.S. To Reckon With Its Racist Past And Present. By Terry Gross / NPR
Race Inquiry Digest (Jan 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – How Republicans made millions on the tax cuts they pushed through Congress. By Peter Cary / Center for Public Integrity and Vox
In 2011, Michael Shannon was wrongly convicted of murder, even though two jurors voted to acquit him — a result of a Louisiana law rooted in discrimination. By Emily Bazelon / NYT Magazine
“Just Mercy”: Freeing an innocent man shouldn’t be this hard. By D. Watkins / Salon
The values preached by Martin Luther King Jr. need rediscovering in 2020. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Martin Luther King and the ‘polite’ racism of white liberals. By Jeanne Theoharris / Wash Post
So much for the “liberal media”: Chattering-class hypocrisy is supporting Trump’s rule. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
How 17 Outsize Portraits Rattled a Small Southern Town. By Audra D.S. Burch / NYT
State of emergency: High tension in Virginia as right-wing gun fanatics descend on Richmond. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Black Americans are deeply pessimistic about the country under Trump, whom more than 8 in 10 describe as ‘a racist,’ Post-Ipsos poll finds. By Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Vanessa Williams, Dan Balz and Scott Clement / Wash Post
Why the Senate’s impeachment trial has way too much in common with the Jim Crow past. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
One city’s reparations program that could offer a blueprint for the nation. by Eric Lutz / The Guardian
Joe Biden Doubles Down On A Racist Myth About Black Parents. By Michael Hobbes / HuffPost
Bernie Sanders articulates the quieter complexities of oppression. By Brandon Tensley / CNN
Navy to Name Aircraft Carrier in Honor of Doris Miller, First African American to Receive Navy Criss, On MLK Day. By Seren Morris / Newsweek
Exclusive: Rep. Ayanna Pressley Reveals Beautiful Bald Head and Talks Alopecia for the First Time. By Jessica Moulite / The Root and You Tube
Richard Pryor Told America About The Struggle Of Black Quarterbacks. By Justin Tinsley / The Undefeated
Russell Wilson is the highest-paid player in the NFL—here’s how much he makes. By Kathleen Elkins / CNBC
