Race Inquiry Digest (May 6) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Jim Crow North: A New Book about Segregation and Struggle outside the South. By J.T. Roane / AAHS
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
‘I got a plan’: Elizabeth Warren takes on racial inequality with her policy proposals. MJ Lee and Kyung Lah / CNN
Democratic Candidates Pressed On Priorities By Women Of Color. By Scott Detrow / NPR
What Joe Biden Hasn’t Owned up to About Anita Hill. By Jane Mayer / The New Yorker
Selling Black and Brown Voters Down the River, One Fox News Town Hall at a Time. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
The return of Archie Bunker. By L. Benjamin Roisky / CNN
White identity politics is about more than racism. By Sean Illing / Vox
Tennessee’s Vengeful Lawmakers. By Cliff Albright / NYT
University of Virginia basketball team will not celebrate championship at the White House. By Jamie Ehrlich
Making the Monument. By Nicolaus Mills / Dissent
The Art of Unruliness. Saidiya Hartman’s book evokes the longings of black women once labeled “wayward.” By Joanna Scutts / The New Republic
Big Money Enters Debate Over Race and Admissions at Stuyvesant. By Elizo Shapiro / NYT
California Senate OKs ban on hairstyle discrimination. By Associated Press
Florida House Approves Requiring People To Repay Criminal Fines, Fees Before They Can Vote. By Sam Levine / HuffPost
Texas Executes John William King For 1998 Dragging Death of James Byrd Jr. By Amy Russo / HuffPost
Black, Latino patients much more likely than whites to undergo amputations related to diabetes. By Anna Gorman / CNN
Police shooting near Yale exposes complex racial divide. By Erik Ortiz / NBC News
The Neighborhood Is Mostly Black. The Home Buyers Are Mostly White. By Emily Badger, Quoctruing Bui, and Robert Gebeloff / NYT
The US white majority will soon disappear forever. By Dudley Poston and Rogelio Saenz / The Conversation
Race Inquiry Digest (May 2) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The US white majority will soon disappear forever. By Dudley Poston and Rogelio Saenz / The Conversation
Another sign of Elizabeth Warren’s relentless focus on inequality. By Jared Bernstein / Wash Post
Democrats Consider: Is A White, Straight Man The Safe Bet Against Trump? By Danielle Kurtzleben / NPR
The case for African American reparations, explained. By Joe R. Feagin / The Conversation
Baltimore Writer D. Watkins: “We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America.” Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Now playing at the Supreme Court: How to preserve white power in four easy steps. By Dana Milbank / Wash Post
The Good Ol’ Boys: 2 Years In, Trump Is Making Our Courts A Lot Less Diverse. By Jenifer Bendery / HuffPost
Recovering an erased history: The Chinese railroad workers who helped connect the country. By Chris Fuchs / NBC News
