Race Inquiry Digest (Feb 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Bloomberg Temptation. By Ross Douthat / NYT
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
African American Film Critics Celebrate Great Movies Shunned By The Oscars. By Kelley L. Carter / The Undefeated
When White Women Wanted a Monument to Black ‘Mammies.’ By Alison M. Parker / NYT
Our Ancestors Were Sold to Save Georgetown. ‘$400,000 Is Not Going to Do It.’ By DaVita Robinson, Valerie White and Maxine Crump / NYT
Virginia will eliminate a state holiday honoring Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. It’ll make Election Day a day off instead. By Scottie Andrew / CNN
Led by a 22-year old, ‘image-obsessed’ white nationalists in masks march on Washington. By Jessica Sutherland / Daily Kos
Virginia can take a step toward racial justice with marijuana reform. By Brad Haywood and Sean Perryman / Wash Post
New study shows racism may shorten black Americans’ lifespans. By Liam Knox / NBC News
Strivings of the Negro People. By W.E. Burghardt Du Bois / The Atlantic August 1897 Issue
Why Voting Discrimination Haunts America. By Jesse Wegman / NYT
DOJ To Investigate Mississippi Prisons After Spate Of Inmate Deaths. By Scott Neuman / NPR
Kweisi Mfume Wins the Special Primary for Elijah Cummings’ Congressional Seat. By Julia Craven / Slate
New Philadelphia police chief starts amid surge in homicides. By Associated Press
Rising Teen Star Koffee Gives Reggae a Jolt to the Mainstream. By Ross kenneth Urken / Newsweek
‘We Have To Face Reality’: Serena Williams’ Coach Says Something Needs To Change After Recent Losses. By Daryl Nelson / Atlanta Black Star
The Simone Biles vault that might be too risky for the Olympics. By Emily Giambalvo / Wash Post
The Oscars’ ‘Harriet Tubman problem.’ By Peniel Joseph / CNN
The Simple Reason Trump Does What He Does. By David Leonhardt / NYT
What Donald Trump Wants From Black Americans. By Zak Cheney -Rice / New York Magazine
The Racism at the Heart of Trump’s ‘Travel Ban.’ By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Our Racist Presidents: New Book Pulls Back the Veil. By Kiki Monifa / The Progressive
This Oscar-nominated Brazil documentary is a warning for democracies around the world. By Shasta Darlington / CNN
Tidal wave of voter suppression’ washes over states, lawyer says. By Janell Ross / NBC News
What Are the Democratic Candidates’ Climate Proposals for Black America? By Julia Craven / Slate
Racism and ecological injustice combine in ‘reckless, racist’ Atlantic Coast Pipeline fight. By The Rev. Dr. William Barber / NBC News
The Long History of the Anti-Abortion Movement’s Links to White Supremacists. By Alex DiBranco
Tulsa plans to dig for suspected mass graves from a 1921 race massacre. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
