Race Inquiry Digest (August 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – ‘The civil war lies on us like a sleeping dragon’: America’s deadly divide – and why it has returned. The years leading up…
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
A Message to White Supremacists – Toure / The Daily Beast
The History of White Supremacy in America – Carl Skutsch / Rolling Stone
Dick Gregory, Comedian and Civil Rights Activist, Dead at 84 – Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone
It’s Not Just Trump, Federal Law Enforcement Is Not Very Focused On Far-Right Extremism – Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
The Kennedy Center Honors: Apolitical no more – Peter Marks / Wash Post
Voter suppression is the civil rights issue of this era – Editorial Board / Wash Post
What White Nationalism Gets Right About American History – R. Derek Black / NYT
Germany’s Memorials Show How to Remember an Ugly Past Without Glorifying It – Fred Kaplan / Slate
‘The civil war lies on us like a sleeping dragon’: America’s deadly divide – and why it has returned – David Blight / The Guardian
Race Inquiry Digest (August 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Trump Knows Exactly What He’s Doing. President Trump’s press conference was the clearest and most precise articulation of a view that Trump has…
‘A Treacherous President Stood in the Way’ – Frederick Douglass / The Atlantic 1866
I’m a black Southerner. I had to go abroad to see a statue celebrating black liberation – Samuel Sinyangwe / Vox
Symbols of the Confederacy still dot the South – Jeremu C.F. Lin and Lily Mihalik / Politico
Charlottesville and the Trouble with Civil War Hypotheticals – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Full Interview: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlottesville, Trump, the Confederacy, Reparations & More – Democracy Now
Eric Foner: White Nationalists, Neo-Confederates, and Donald Trump – Jon Wiener / The Nation
VICE’s Charlottesville documentary on Trump’s “fine people” will terrify you – Rachel Leah / Salon
The whole point of Confederate monuments is to celebrate white supremacy – Karen L. Cox / Wash Post
A Conversation With Native Americans on Race – Michele Stephenson and Brian Young / NYT
Trump Knows Exactly What He’s Doing – David A. Graham / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest (August 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Charlottesville and the Bigotocracy. The late, great Gore Vidal said that we live in “The United States of Amnesia.” Our fatal forgetfulness flares…
White Supremacy in the Age of Trump – Keri Leigh Merritt / Bill Moyers
This weekend’s Charlottesville rally represents an alliance between pro-Confederates and Nazis – Tara Isabella Burton / Vox
Trumpvangelicals are using faith to bring us to the brink of nuclear war – William Barber and Liz Theoharris / ThinkProgress
When Privatization Means Segregation: Setting the Record Straight on School Vouchers – Leo Casey / Dissent
Sorry, Mr. President: White people are not oppressed in America – Chauncey Devega / Salon
After Obama’s 2008 Win, Indiana GOP Added Early Voting in White Suburb, Cut It in Indianapolis – Mark Joseph Stern / Slate
Who’s benefiting from affirmative action? White men. – Jonathan Zimmerman / Wash Post
Stanford University course to study ‘abolishing whiteness’ – Matthew Stein / The College Fix
Why Are Police Officers More Dangerous Than Airplanes? – Pagan Kennedy / NYT
