Race Inquiry Digest (May 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – What Reparations for Slavery Might Look Like in 2019. By Patricia Cohen / NYT
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Trump judicial nominees decline to endorse Brown v. Board under Senate questioning. By Laura Meckler and Robert Barnes / Wash Post
White Supremacy Beyond a White Majority. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
An Oral History of Trump’s Bigotry. By David A. Graham, Adrienne Green, Cullen Murphy and Parker Richards / The Atlantic
A Trumpist Constitution? By Jedediah Britton-Purdy / Dissent
Donald Trump: White welfare king and lord of the great grift. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Koreatown, Little Saigon and South Asians: As Asian Americans diversified, so did their communities. By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil / NBC News
We Cannot Resign Ourselves to Dismay and Disenfranchisement. By Stacey Abrams / NYT
How Rich White Men Win When Abortion Restrictions Become Law. By Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
Black Women in Chicago, Getting Things Done. By Salamishah Tillet / NYT
Here’s What I’ve Learned From Being The Only Black Woman In The Conference Room. By Kell Hammond / HuffPost
SAT Adversity Index: A Drive Toward Diversity Without Discussing Race. By Anemona Hartocollis and Amy Harmon / NYT
Why America Needs Its HBCUs. By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
Populist alliances of ‘cowboys and Indians’ are protecting rural lands. By Zoltan Grossman / The Conversation
Undistorting the Civil War. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
65 year since Brown v. Board of Ed, school segregation persists. By Janelle Richards, Rehema Ellis and Elissa Candiotti / NBC News
Race Inquiry Digest (May 23) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Rich white men rule America. How much longer will we tolerate that? By Nathan Robinson / The Guardian
“I Now Have the Perspective of Both Sides”: 18 Voting Officials Take Civil Rights Tour. By Jessica Huseman / ProPublica
‘He’s white, male and gay’: Buttigieg hits obstacles with black voters. By Daniel Strauss and Elena Schneider / Politico
The Complicity of Ben Carson. By Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
Alabama’s Abortion Bill Is Great News For White Supremacists. By Andy Campbell / HuffPost
Tackle white supremacy as terrorism, experts say. By Mallory Simon and Sara Sidner / CNN
Threat of violence against Jews in US at alarming levels. By Sara Sidner / CNN Video
A Visit to the Unfathomable Past of Auschwitz. By Ralph Blumenthal / NYT
How 1800s racism birthed Chinatown, Japantown and other ethnic enclaves. By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil / NBC News
How the War on Drugs Kept Black Men Out of College. By Tamara Gilkes Borr / The Atlantic
Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix series sheds light on the horrors of wrongful incarceration. By Janelle Richards, Michelle Cho and Kim Cornett / NBC News
The Intersection of Race and Blood. By Rose George / NYT
Slavery and the Family Tree. By Whitney Stewart / AAIHS
Documentary on the South’s first racially integrated Little League game in Orlando is on Netflix. By Annabelle Sikes / Orlando Weekly
HBO’s ‘What’s My Name’ expertly tells story of Muhammad Ali as fighter, thinker. By Richard Roeper / Chicago Sun Times
