Race Inquiry Digest (December 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Dr. King’s Interconnected World. Fifty years ago Sunday — Christmas Eve 1967 — the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in his…
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Pot Legalization Is Transforming California’s Criminal Justice Landscape. Here’s How – Brandon E. Patterson / Mother Jones
The opioid epidemic has now reached black America – German Lopez / Vox
The Trump-Less Kennedy Center Honors – Sarah Ruhl / NYT
William Barber II: Trump’s Terrible Choice for Judge – William Barber II / NYT
24 Of The Most Thought-Provoking Pieces Of Writing By People Of Color In 2017 – Zeba Bay / HuffPost
Dave Chappelle has a message for ‘poor white’ Trump supporters – Eugene Scott / Wash Post
Cornel West’s Reckless Criticism of Ta-Nehisi Coates – Ismail Muhammad / Slate
Confederate statues come down in Memphis – Emanuella Grinberg and Nicole Chavez / CNN
Jay Z’s New Music Video Uses America’s Long History of Racist Cartoons to Deliver a Haunting Message – Austin Elias-de-Jesus / Slate
Dr. King’s Interconnected World – Drew Dellinger / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (December 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Holiday Brilliance of Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas.” If Donny Hathaway had lived to see “This Christmas” enshrined as the black Christmas anthem—a…
The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta by Maurice J. Hobson
The dangerous belief that white people are under attack – Clara Wilkins / The Conversation
Poverty in America is a moral outrage. The soul of our nation is at stake – Dr. William Barber and Dr. Liz Theoharris / The Guardian
Robert Reich: A Guide to Why the Trump-Republican Tax Plan Is a Disgrace – Robert Reich
Women of color in low-wage jobs are being overlooked in the #MeToo moment – P. R. Lockhart / Vox
How Grassroots Organizers Got Black Voters to the Polls in Alabama – Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic
Study reveals racial inequality in Mexico, disproving its “race-blind” rhetoric – Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga / The Conversation via Salon
White Christianity is in big trouble. And it’s its own biggest threat – Charles Mathewes / Wash Post
The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History – Holland Cotter / NYT
The Holiday Brilliance of Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” – Emily Lordi / The New Yorker
Race Inquiry Digest (December 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Sample The Best Jazz Albums of 2017 plus the best historical releases. Even as the world goes up in smoke, artists still make…
How the Seattle football team became the social justice warriors of the NFL – Tricia Romano / Rolling Stone
No One Is Talking About the Drug Crisis Killing Black People – Olivia Exstrum / Mother Jones
The past year of research has made it very clear: Trump won because of racial resentment – German Lopez / Vox
It’s still too easy to push blacks, minorities off of juries – Jeffrey Bellin / USA Today
Why 2017 was R&B’s return to glory – Rachel Leah / Salon
GOP Tax Bill Could Turn America Into World’s Most Unequal Society, UN Expert Warns – Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost
This video of jubilant students at a small-town Louisiana school inspired millions. Here’s why. Samantha Schmidt / Wash Post
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
