Race Inquiry Digest (August 29) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – We Aren’t Seeing White Support for Trump for What It Is. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
How Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Helps The Economy. By Ruth Umoh / Forbes
Nearly a third of Americans were alive during Jim Crow. By Phillip Bump / Wash Post
Creator of New York Times slavery project not surprised by conservative meltdown. By Sam Fulwood III / ThinkProgress
1619 and the cult of American innocence. By Zack Beauchamp / Vox
The Bible was used to justify slavery. Then Africans made it their path to freedom. By Julie Zauamer / Wash Post
Freedom and slavery, the ‘central paradox of American history.’ By Michael E. Ruane / Wash Post
California’s Forgotten Confederate History. By Kevin Waite / The New Republic
Only the Right Can Defeat White Nationalism. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Bernie Sanders unveils ambitious plan to reform nation’s criminal justice system. By Matthew Rozsa / Salon
Eric Garner decision: NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo fired, but justice still denied for Garner’s family. By Paul Butler / NBC News
Atlanta Child Murders Case Has Been Reopened. By EJ Dickson / Rolling Stone
50 years ago, Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock anthem expressed the hopes and fears of a nation. By Mark Clague / The Conversation
“South Side” and “Sherman’s Showcase” give rarely-seen perspectives on black American life. By Melanie McFarland / Salon
Coco Gauff: The Girl Who Would Be GOAT. By Jerry Bembry / The Undefeated
Stephen Curry to Bankroll Golf’s Return to Howard University. By Sopan Deb / NYT
The New American Homeless. By Brian Goldstone / The New Republic
Race Inquiry Digest (August 26) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Did Venus Williams Ever Get Her Due? How the first Williams sister changed the course of women’s tennis. By Elizabeth Weil / NYT
How slavery became America’s first big business. By P.R. Lockhart / Vox
The Great Land Robbery: How Federal Policies Dispossessed Black Americans of Millions of Acres. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
A rural town confronts its buried history of mass killings of black Americans. By Teresa King / The Guardian
Mass Incarceration. Throughline an NPR Podcast
They Got Their Voting Rights Back, But Will They Go to the Polls? By Nicole Lewis / Mother Jones
Push for Ethnic Studies in Schools Faces a Dilemma: Whose Stories to Tell. By Dana Goldstein / NYT
America’s Exclusionary Past and Present and the Judgment of History. By Michael Luo / The New Yorker
Beto O’Rourke Unveils Plan To Fight Gun Violence And White Nationalism. By Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost
Democrats and the FBI say white extremism is a huge problem. Trump disagrees. By Zachary B. Wolf / CNN
2020 Democrats Court Once Overlooked Native American Voters. By Kali Robinson / HuffPost
My Childhood Rape and My Life That Might Have Been. By Goldie Taylor / Daily Beast
‘Luce’ Review: Race, Privilege and Every Parent’s Nightmare. By Peter Travers / Rolling Stone
Ice Cube ready for BIG3 story to shift to players. By Maya A. Jones / The Undefeated
