Race Inquiry Digest (August 16) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true. By Nicole Hannah-Jones / NYT
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
How the Trail of American White Supremacy Led to El Paso. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
This Is a Warning About the 2 Sides of White Nationalism. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
The Fight Against White Nationalism Is Different. By Mike Giglio / The Atlantic
Obamas release powerful statement in response to gun violence: “We are not helpless here” By Cody Fenwick / Salon
The Right Way to Understand White Nationalist Terrorism. By Kathleen Belew / NYT
World Reacts to El Paso Shooting and the Hate That Fueled It. By Richard Perez-Pena and Megan Specia / NYT
How Global White Extremism Influences Shootings in America. By Weiyi Cai, Troy Griggs, Jason Kao, Julliette Love and Joe Ward / NYT
White nationalism-fueled violence is on the rise, but FBI is slow to call it domestic terrorism. By Elisha Fieldstadt and Ken Dilanian / NBC News
From El Paso to Christchurch, a Racist Lie Is Fueling Terrorist Attacks. By Kelly Weill / Daily Beast
“Fascism Will Not Go Away by Itself”: George Ciccariello-Maher on Confronting White Supremacy. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
A Catholic bishop in Texas is publicly accusing President Trump of racism. By Daniel Burke / CNN
Remembering Toni Morrison: Four writers pay tribute to a great American novelist and groundbreaking intellect. / The New Republic
Toni Morrison’s powerful words on racism. The Guardian Video
The El Paso shooting isn’t an anomaly. It’s American history repeating itself. By Zack Beauchamp / Vox
Race Inquiry Digest (August 12) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – White Nationalists Are Debunking White Supremacy. By Willliam Saletan / Slate
Pete Buttigieg: America ‘Under Attack From Homegrown White Nationalist Terrorists. By Mollie Reilly / HuffPost
Minutes Before El Paso Killing, Hate-Filled Manifesto Appears Online. By Tim Arango, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Katie Benner / NYT
Does Trump want a race war? Tim Wise on right-wing terrorism and our president. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Why Trump’s stoking of white racial resentment is effective – but makes all working-class Americans worse off. By Donald T. Tomaskovic-Devey and Eric Hoyt / The Conversation
America has a housing segregation problem. Seattle may just have the solution. By Dylan Mattews / Vox
Trump Wants to Make It Harder to Claim Housing Discrimination. By Peter Wade / Rolling Stone
Immigration, Nationalism And America’s Founders. By Stuart Anderson / Forbes
“The Most Important Place in the World”: On Puerto Rico and the Freedom Struggle. By Dan Berger / AAIHS
‘The Accident Of Color’ Looks At The Failure Of Reconstruction. By Kamil Ahsan / NPR
The Nuns Who Bought and Sold Human Beings. By Rachel L. Swarns / NYT
Robots and Racism: New Study Suggests That Humans Apply Racial Biases, Stereotypes to Black and White Robots. By Tanasia Kenney / AtlBlackStar
