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Race Inquiry Digest – Important Current Stories On Race In America / March 24, 2017
The following are important stories on race that have been selected to inform and educate our readers. Visit http://www.raceinquiry.com/for links to these as well as…
Why are Republicans so cruel to the poor? Paul Ryan’s profound hypocrisy stands for a deeper problem – Chauncey Devega / Salon
A ‘Stand Your Ground’ Expansion That Expands Inequality – Caroline Light / NYT
The University of Michigan’s Plan to Increase Diversity – Emily Deruy / The Atlantic
Texas Needs a Remedial Lesson on Voting Rights ( Texas can’t keep its hands clean)- The Editorial Board / NYT
Let’s Talk About Wigs And Race – Ebere Nweze / Huff Post
Why Black Families Struggle to Build Wealth – Gillian B. White / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest – Important Current Stories on Race in America / March 23 , 2017
The following are important stories on race that have been selected to inform and educate our readers: Current news, historical perspective, book/video favorites, collegiate issues,…
“The Lost Negroes of North America ” – WVON interviews Ralph L. Crowder III / You Tube
Perri Small from Chicago’s powerhouse WVON interviews Ralph L. Crowder III about his new documentary film, “The Lost Negroes of North America.” The upcoming documentary…
Why does Donald Trump demonize cities? Will Wilkinson / Wash Post
President Trump is a big-city guy. He made his fortune in cities and keeps his family in a Manhattan tower. But when Trump talks about…
Deportation of African and Other Black Immigrants Is Quietly Increasing And No One Is Taking Note – David Love / Atl Black Star
Although often not covered in the media, the African immigrant community is facing mass deportations in the era of Donald Trump. While the immigration debate…
I’m a bit brown. But in America I’m white. Not for much longer – Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian
The US Census Bureau plans to redefine ‘white’ to exclude people with Middle Eastern and North African origins. It’s a reminder that the identity has…
What ‘white folks who teach in the hood’ get wrong about education – Kenya Downs / PBS
Columbia University associate professor Dr. Chris Emdin says the “white hero” narrative is setting up both teachers and students for failure. “There’s a teacher right…
A Republican Health Care Bill in Search of a Problem – The Editorial Board / NYT
Republican leaders in the House have been huddling over the last few days in a frantic search for enough votes to win passage of their…
Report : Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States – Samuel R. Gross, Maurice Possley, Klara Stephens / National Registry of Exonerations
Executive Summary – African Americans are only 13% of the American population but a majority of innocent defendants wrongfully convicted of crimes and later exonerated….
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Watch – What Does a Reformed Racist Look Like? – Nadine Ajaka / The Atlantic Video
Scott Shepherd is a former grand dragon of the Klu Klux Klan in Tennessee, but now refers to himself as a reformed racist. Shepherd’s troubled…
Latinos Feel the Sting of Trump’s Presidency – Hector Tobar / The New Yorker
Jewish Institutions Face Another Wave of Bomb Threats – Brandon Elllington Patterson / Mother Jones
Trump’s election has created “safe spaces” for racists: Southern Poverty Law Center’s Heidi Beirich – Chauncey Devega / Salon
America’s Melting Pot Is Boiling Brown People To Death – Sahaj Kohli / Huff Post
The Real Goal of Trump’s Travel Ban Is to Make America White Again – Joan Walsh / The Nation
Liberals believe they’ve debunked the stated rationale of Donald Trump’s so-called “immigration ban,” which has been revised to try to pass legal muster this time…
White Supremacists Step Up Recruiting on Campus, Report Says – Tamara Best / NYT
At Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., a printer, suspected to have been hacked, spurted out anti-Semitic fliers in January. At Central Michigan University in Mount…
Black People More Likely to Be Wrongfully Convicted of Murder, Study Shows – Niraj Chokshi / NYT
Supreme Court Sides With Latino Man Who Says He Didn’t Get a Fair Trial – Lawrence Hurley / Huff Post
The Death of Compassion – Charles M. Blow / NYT
Folks, we have been here before. After Ronald Reagan, a celebrity-turned-politician, carried 49 states in his devastating defeat of Walter Mondale in 1984, Democrats were…
Confronting Academia’s Ties to Slavery – Jennifer Schuesslser / NYT
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1976, archivists at Harvard’s natural history museum opened a drawer and discovered a haunting portrait of a shirtless enslaved man named…
GOP bill could dismantle one of nation’s most robust school desegregation efforts – Emma Brown / Wash Post
LOUISVILLE — A remarkable experiment in school desegregation has thrived for four decades in this Kentucky city and its suburbs, surviving fierce resistance from the…
What if the Court in the Loving Case Had Declared Race a False Idea? Brent Staples – NYT
Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia struck a resonant historical note last year when he proclaimed June 12 “Loving Day,” in commemoration of Loving v. Virginia,…
