Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 5) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Excuse you, Iowa. Black voters flex for Biden in Democratic primary. By Brandon Tensley / CNN
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Clyburn Delivers Emotional Endorsement Of Biden Just Before Critical SC Primary. By Kate Riga / Talkingpointsmemo
The South Carolina Debate Was A Festival Of White Democrats Pandering To Black Voters. By Edwin Rios And Natalie Baptiste / Mother Jones
“The Billionaire Election”: Anand Giridharadas on How 2020 Is a Referendum on Wealth Inequality. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Can Bernie win? Absolutely — and I don’t even support him. By Bob Cesca / Salon
This is a big week for the wall Trump is building. But it has nothing to do with the border. By Catherine E. Shoichet / CNN
White supremacist propaganda produced by U.S. hate groups is spreading — and working. By Carla Hill / NBC News
Courts are seeing through Republicans’ voter suppression trickery. By Editorial Board / Wash Post
New study reveals previously invisible health issues among Asians in U.S. By Agnes Constante / NBC News
Lost Lineage: The quest to identify black Americans’ roots. By Nicole Ellis / Wash Post
Congress makes lynching a federal crime, 65 years after Emmett Till. By Matthew Daly / Associated Press and PBS
Why Harvey Weinstein’s Guilt Matters to Black Women. By Salamishah Tillet / NYT
Rihanna Delivers Victoria’s Secret Its Final Business Blow. By Kori Hale / Forbes
Head of America’s only black telecom company wants to change the mobile landscape. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
The Black Mamba may be gone but the mentality that made him a legend lives on. By Steve Almasy / CNN
Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician And An Inspiration For ‘Hidden Figures,’ Dies. By Russell Lewis / NPR
Black America Watched Deontay Wilder Lose And It Hurt. By David Dennis Jr. / The Undefeated
Does Anyone Have a Clue About How to Fight Back Against Trump’s Racism? By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 2) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – How William Barber II Uses His Faith to Fight for Justice. By Mary C. Curtis / Time
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder of the Civil Rights Era – By Jerry Mitchell
A black lawmaker’s anti-lynching bill failed 120 years ago. Now, the House may finally act. By Meagan Flynn / Wash Post
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre will soon be a part of the curriculum for Oklahoma schools. By Christina Maxouris / CNN
If Progressives Want to Win, They’ll Have to Talk About White Supremacy. By Steve Phillips / The Nation
What It Means to Be Black in America. Six short films for Black History Month. By Maris Curan / NYT
Groveland Four, the black men pardoned after 1949 rape accusation, honored with memorial. By Erij Ortiz / NBC News
Malcolm X’s Daughter Ilyasah Shabazz on Her Father’s Legacy & the New Series “Who Killed Malcolm X?” By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Police, Prosecutors, and Republicans Are Looking to Undo a Criminal Justice Reform in New York. By Nick Pinto / The Intercept
How Young Latinos Delivered Nevada to Bernie. By Aida Chavez / The Intercept
Bloomberg and Obama: A more ‘complicated’ relationship than the ads suggest. By Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News
Florida’s Voting-Rights Fight Could Tip the 2020 Election. By The Editorial Board / NYT
Stacey Abrams Spearheads ‘Fair Fight,’ A Campaign Against Voter Suppression. By Debbie Elliott / NPR
