Race Inquiry Digest (Dec 10) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured President Barack Obama Talks to Jesmyn Ward About A Promised Land / Vanity Fair
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
The 80-Million-Vote Man Has a Very Fragile Coalition. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
In neighboring Georgia counties, election revealed a growing divide that mirrors the nation. By Haisten Willis and Griff Witte / Wash Post
How Dinkins and Giuliani Foretold the Future of American Politics. By Michael Tomasky / NYT
Donald Trump’s mini-monster: Stephen Miller wasn’t born that way. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Seven civil rights groups want a meeting with Joe Biden. The agenda: Appointing Black officials in top roles, not lower-ranking ones. By Annie Linskey and Matt Viser / Wash Post
Louisville police ‘no-knock’ warrants mostly targeted Black residents. By Matt Mencarini, Darcy Costello and Tessa Duvall / Louisville Courier Journal and USA Today
When Covid-19 closed schools, Black, Hispanic and poor kids took biggest hit in math, reading. By Erin Einhorn / NBC News
Bill that could help Black farmers reclaim millions of acres ‘a step in the right direction.’ By Mariya Mosely / ABC News
Pennsylvania Supreme Court hears arguments in Bill Cosby appeal. By CBS News
1918 Germany Has a Warning for America. Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century. By Jochen Bittner / NYT
Reckoning with slavery: What a revolt’s archives tell us about who owns the past. By Marjoleine Kars / The Conversation
Finding the last ship known to have brought enslaved Africans to America and the descendants of its survivors. By Anderson Cooper / CBS News
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation. Photographs and Text by Richard Frishman / NYT
John Boyega, The Actor-Activist, Isn’t Afraid To Use His Voice. By Taryn Finley / HuffPost
Glynn Turman on ‘Fargo,’ ‘Ma Rainey,’ and His 60-Year Career. By Alan Sepinwall / Rolling Stone
Patti LaBelle, the Doyenne of Philadelphia Soul. By Mark Anthony Neal / NYT
Book Review: ‘Black Futures,’ A Peek at the Variety, Wonder and Trauma of Black Life, Then and Now. By Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham. NYT
A push to recognize the statistics of Black players from baseball’s era of apartheid. By Kevin Baxter / LA Times
NFL agent David Mulugheta hopes his work can serve as an inspiration to other Black sports agents. By Emmanuel Morgan / LA Times
Minority Rule Cannot Last in America. It Never Has. By Kenneth Owen / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest (Dec 7) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Ijeoma Oluo’s ” Mediocre: The Dangerous legacy of White Male America.”
What exit polls say about state of Georgia’s Senate runoffs. By Elena Cox and Lacrai Mitchell / CBS News
How Trump revealed the right’s “psychic longing for an American strongman.” By Alex Henderson / Alternet and Salon
Biden Creates Diverse Covid-19 Advisory Board To Contrast With Trump. By Andrew Solendar / Forbes
From Covid-19 to racial justice, how 2020’s biggest issues influenced the Black vote. By Donna Owens / NBC News
Biden is under pressure to forgive student debt. Here’s why it’s a racial issue. By Randi Richardson / NBC News
