Race Inquiry Digest (June 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
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Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
It’s Juneteenth, and a White Nationalist Is President. By Barrett Holmes Pitner / Daily Beast
Jesse Jackson on Reparations: ‘We Are Due a Different Kind of Recognition.’ By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
Why the racial wealth gap persists, more than 150 years after emancipation. By Calvin Schermerhorn / Wash Post
Mitch McConnell says America made up for slavery by electing Barack Obama. By Luke Barnes / ThinkProgress
Netflix’s The Edge of Democracy charts the slippery slope from democracy to authoritarian rule. By Alissa Wilkinson / Vox
Trump Is Changing the Shape of the Democratic Party, Too. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
New documentary on Charleston church shooting explores idea of forgiveness. By Jamie Aten / Wash Post
No African American has won statewide office in Mississippi in 129 years – here’s why. John A. Tures and Seth Golden / The Conversation
Supreme Court hands Democrats a win in Virginia racial gerrymander case. By Ariane de Vogue, Ryan Nobles and Devan Cole / CNN
The Nonwhite Working Class. By Henry Grabar / Slate
Adidas Sells Diversity. Black Employees Say It Doesn’t Practice It. By Julie Creswell and Kevin Draper / NYT
California Governor Apologizes For State’s History Of Violence Against Native Americans. By Dominique Mosbergen / HuffPost
Who Is Clarence Avant? True Story of Music’s Most Influential Exec Revealed in Netflix’s ‘The Black Godfather.’ By Janice Williams / Newsweek
Twenty-five years ago, O.J. Simpson showed white Americans just how conditional their comfort with black athletes was. By Phillip Lamarr Cunningham / Wash Post
The Los Angeles County DA Has Put 22 People on Death Row. Not One of Them Was White. By Nathalie Baptiste / Mother Jones
Four years ago this week: Trump’s escalator ride and the Charleston shooting. It’s not a coincidence. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (June 24) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Richard Wright discovers Joe Louis’ dynamite. By Randy Roberts / The Undefeated
After Oprah’s Central Park Five interview, you realize that a $41 million settlement will never be enough. By Ernest Owens / The Grio
House To Hold Reparations Hearing With Testimony From Ta-Nehisi Coates. By Errin Haines Whack / AP
Maryland has created a truth commission on lynchings – can it deliver? By Kelebogile Zvobogo / The Conversation
Report: Hundreds of Police Officers Belong to Racist Facebook Groups. By Michael Harriot / The Root
Racist Laws Took the Vote Away From Prisoners. After Serving Time, One Man Is Fighting to Give It Back to Them. By Samantha Michaels / Mother Jones
More and more workplace discrimination cases are being closed before they’re even investigated. By Maryam Jameel / Vox
New foreclosure crisis hitting after shady lenders targeted black seniors for reverse mortgages. By Laura Clawson / Daily Kos
Black Bodies, Green Spaces. By Tiya Miles / NYT
Elizabeth Warren’s New Plan to Close the Racial Wealth Gap. By Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
Hip-Hop’s Next Billionaires: Richest Rappers 2019. By Zack O’Malley Greenburg / Forbes
The real reason Trump won’t put Harriet Tubman on $20 bill. By Dorothy Brown / CNN
A former slave who was the first black Catholic priest takes a step toward sainthood. By Daniel Burke / CNN
Reflections on African American Intellectual History. By Pero G Dagbovie / AAIHS
