Race Inquiry Digest ( May 22 ) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – If you truly knew what the N-word meant to our ancestors, you’d NEVER use it. It was used and still can be used…
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Racial And Social Injustice Still Attempts To Erase Progress In The Natural Hair Community – Key Michel / Blavity
Stop Playing: Impeachment Is Not a Black Political Strategy – Charles D. Ellison / The Root
If you truly knew what the N-word meant to our ancestors, you’d NEVER use it – Brando Simeo Starkey / The Undefeated
Felony charges against inauguration protesters represent ‘historic crossroads’ – Mark Hand / ThinkProgress
Michelle Alexander: We Must Respond Forcefully & Challenge Jeff Sessions’s New War on Drugs / Democracy Now
Celebrating, and mourning, two beacons in the quest for racial equality – Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Watch the More Realistic More Depressing Alternative Ending of Get Out – Aisha Harris / Slate
Senate Moves Forward With Bipartisan Bill to Rein in Jeff Sessions – Tana Ganeva / Rolling Stone
White Tulsa Officer Is Acquitted in Fatal Shooting of Black Driver – Lucia Walinchus and Richard Perez-Pena / NYT
Richard Rothstein speaks With Ta-Nehisi Coates About Forgotten History of Residential Segregation / Slate
Race Inquiry Digest ( May 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Donald Trump’s Catastrophic Presidency Offers More Proof That Racism and Sexism Are Destroying America. This week’s Russian revelations are part of a larger pattern:…
America Needs a New Poor People’s Campaign – Rev. Dr. William J. Barber / CommonDreams
12 Features of White Working-Class Trump Voters Confirm Depressed and Traumatized Multitudes Voted for Him – Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
Philadelphia just set the national example in the fight against mass incarceration – German Lopez / Vox
A Story of Slavery in Modern America – Alex Tizon / The Atlantic
North Carolina’s “Monster” Voter Supression Law Is Dead – Mark Joseph Stern / Slate
Lessons On Race And Vouchers From Milwaukee – Claudio Sanchez / NPR
African American Government Scientist Crowned Miss USA – Rebecca Shapiro / Huff Post
Philadelphia sues Wells Fargo for allegedly discriminating against minority borrowers – Jonnelle Marte / Wash Post
Racial And Ethnic Disparities Persist In Sudden Infant Deaths – Katherine Hobson / NPR
Donald Trump’s Catastrophic Presidency Offers More Proof That Racism and Sexism Are Destroying America – Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (May 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Trump’s voter fraud commission is a shameless white power grab. There were only four documented cases of attempted voter fraud in the 2016…
Republicans plan massive cuts to programs for the poor – Richard Bade and Sarah Ferris / Politico
‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Sequel Gets Vibrant First Trailer – Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone
Open Love Letter To Bethune-Cookman 2017 Graduates From Black Faculty / Cassius
The Case for Black English : John McWhorter celebrates the dialect that has become an American lingua franca – Vinson Cunningham / New Yorker
Guess Who Sessions’s War On Drugs Will Target – Earl Ofari Hutchinson / Huff Post
Protests against removing Confederate monuments are not really about history – Christine Emba / Wash Post
‘Mama’s Bail Out Day’ Brings Black Moms Home From Jail for Mother’s Day – Sherri Williams / NBC
NFL Still Shunning Colin Kaepernick Because of His Politics, Not His Play – Bleacher Report / Mike Freeman
