Race Inquiry Digest (February 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Why ‘Black Panther’ Is a Defining Moment for Black America. Ryan Coogler’s film is a vivid re-imagination of something black Americans have cherished…
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
A Descendant of Robert E. Lee Speaks Out Against the Sin of White Supremacy – Eric Gunn / The Progressive
Why the Right Wing Is So Interested in Narrowing Down Education into ‘Skills’ – Jennifer Berkshire / AlterNet
What Laura Ingraham’s attack on LeBron James really means – Martenzie Johnson / The Undefeated
How California Is Blocking Native Americans From the Weed Business – Amanda Chicago Lewis / Rolling Stone
“I Want Four Years Where I’m Not Judged by the Color of My Skin” – Brandon E. Patterson / Mother Jones
The Mystery Behind Frederick Douglass’s Birthday – Annika Neklason / The Atlantic
It’s Not Illegal Immigration That Worries Republicans Anymore – Peter Beinart / The Atlantic
What The Heck Is Afrofuturism? Jamie Broadnax / HuffPost
Revisiting Jefferson’s history as a slave owner – David K. Ronka / Wash Post
Why ‘Black Panther’ Is a Defining Moment for Black America – Carvell Wallace / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (February 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – When the next generation looks racially different from the last, political tensions rise. The “racial generation gap.” This is a straightforward measure of the…
The Notorious Book that Ties the Right to the Far Right – A Review by Sarah Jones / New Republic
Frederick Douglass needed to see Lincoln. Would the president meet with a former slave? DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
Court Rules Alabama Town’s School Segregation Too Racist … Even for Alabama – Michael Harriot / The Root
‘Black Women Are Realizing the Power of Their Vote’ – Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico
Trump won’t stop trying to keep America white – Dana Milbank / Wash Post
A New Home for Angela Davis’s Papers (and Her ‘Wanted’ Poster) – Jennifer Schuessler / NYT
Terror victims Donald Trump won’t talk about: Americans killed by the “alt-right” – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Trump plans to make 2018 all about race and his Twitter account – Matthew Rozsa / Salon
Trump’s budget hits poor Americans the hardest – Tracy Jan, Caitlin Dewey and Jeff Stein / Wash Post
G.O.P. Visions of Tectonic Realignment – Charles M. Blow / NYT
When the next generation looks racially different from the last, political tensions rise – Manuel Pastor / The Conversation
Race Inquiry Digest (February 12) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – How Joy Reid of MSNBC Became a Heroine of the Resistance. The daughter of immigrants, she spars fiercely with supporters of President Trump,…
Desegregating blood: A civil rights struggle to remember – Thomas A. Guglielmo / The Conversation
King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ explains the rage over the NFL anthem protests and the persistence of racial injustice – Michael A. Fletcher / The Undefeated
Watch Kendrick Lamar, SZA’s Vibrant New ‘All the Stars’ Video – Jon Blistein / Rollling Stone
