Race Inquiry Digest (November 1) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Charleston to Tree of Life: White nationalism is a threat to us all. Spaces of worship are sadly most vulnerable to white nationalist…
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Critics say Trump has fostered the toxic environment for the political violence he denounces – David Nakamura / Wash Post
The Synagogue Killings Mark a Surge of Anti-Semitism – Andrew Kragie / The Atlantic
Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Is a Moment of Reckoning for American Jews – Jay Michaelson / Daily Beast
The Unreality of Racial Justice Cinema – Reggie Ugwu / NYT
How do colleges use affirmative action? Even some activists don’t understand – OiYan Poon / The Conversation
Elizabeth Warren’s New Housing Proposal Is Actually a Brilliant Plan to Close the Racial Wealth Gap – Mehrsa Baradaran and Darrick Hamilton / Slate
What white players owe their black teammates: Boston Celtics legend’s tears offer an answer – John Blake / CNN
A Black Senate Candidate Stumps in Mississippi, but His Party Holds Him Back – Nicholas Fandos / NYT
The Civil War massacre that left nearly 200 black soldiers ‘murdered’ – DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
72 hours in America: Three hate-filled crimes. Three hate-filled suspects – Ray Sanchez and Melissa Gray / CNN
Race Inquiry Digest (October 29) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – 72 hours in America: Three hate-filled crimes. Three hate-filled suspects.
Trump’s Midterms Strategy Is Fear, Lies, and (White) Nationalism – Joan Walsh / The Nation
America’s Relentless Suppression of Black Voters – Lawrence Goldstone / The New Republic
Booked: How to Pick an Electorate, with Carol Anderson – Marcia Chatelain / Dissent
Stacey Abrams and the Politics of Georgia’s Old State Flag – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Confederate pride and prejudice – Frances Stead Sellers / Wash Post
At trial, Harvard officials explain rejecting alternatives to using race in admissions – Josh Gerstein / Politico
Can these descendants of enslaved Africans save their unique culture – Pete Marovich / Wash Post
Le’Veon Bell’s agent knows the struggle – Jesse Washington / The Undefeated
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture – Margaret Talbot / The New Yorker
The Double Battle: Frederick Douglass’s moral crusade – Eric Foner / The Nation
Historian Christopher Browning on the Trump regime: We’re “close to the point of no return” – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Fear of a Black Continent – Ross Douthat / NYT
Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test raises fraught questions of Native American identity, tribes say – Erik Ortiz and Angel Torres / NBC News
Louisiana voters will have a chance to strike down a Jim Crow law this November – German Lopez / Vox
Voter-Suppression Tactics in the Age of Trump – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
