Race Inquiry Digest (Feb 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured How Black families, torn apart during slavery, worked to find one another again. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
Featured How Black families, torn apart during slavery, worked to find one another again. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
Featured The story of four Black NFL players who changed the face of the game. CBS News
Featured Donald Trump’s fantasies of racial violence reflect an all-too-real history. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured Whoopi Goldberg’s baffling claim forced many to ask tough questions about race and identity in the US. By Brandon Tensley / CNN
Featured Here are some of the notable passages in Brian Flores’ lawsuit against the NFL By Steve Almasy / CNN
Featured Is Slavery an Evil Beyond Measure? By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Featured When Whiteness Starts Seeing Itself. By Kali Holloway / The Nation
Featured Black Mississippi senators protest bill to ban critical race theory. By AP and NPR
Featured Failure on Voting Rights Would Be Historic. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Featured Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and Jan. 6 offer two competing visions for America. By John Blake / CNN
Featured American Democracy is Only 55 Years Old – And Hanging by a Thread. By Van R. Newkirk / The Atlantic Black civil-rights activists—and especially…
Featured Sidney Poitier Gave More Than He Was Given. By Samantha N. Sheppard / The Atlantic
Featured The riot, the republic and the fight for America’s soul. By Jonathan Allen / NBC News
Featured After a “Reckoning,” in 2021 America Looked Away From Racism. By Janell Ross / Time
Featured Why Covid Death Rates Are Rising for Some Groups. By Denise Lu and Albert Sun / NYT
Featured A New Origin Story: The 1619 Project. By Nikole Hannah Jones / NYT Magazine
Featured North Carolina Black Santas bringing diversity to Christmas. By Chris Lumsden / GMA
Featured What Does ‘White Freedom’ Really Mean? By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Featured Is America experiencing mass psychosis? By Nicole Karlis / Salon
Featured Can American democracy escape the doom loop? So far, the signs are not promising. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured Joe Louis’ decision to fight for the segregated Navy was deeply unpopular — until Pearl Harbor was bombed. By Randy Roberts / The Undefeated
Featured The Origins of Herschel Walker’s Complicated Views on Race. By Michael Kruse / Politico
Featured The Missing Voices In The Panic Over Critical Race Theory. By Melinda D. Anderson / HuffPost
Featured Unfinished History of Indigenous Slavery In America. By Kevin Waite / The Atlantic
Featured From ‘Fear of a Black Planet’ to ‘Fear of a Black Universe.’ By C. Brandon Ogbunu / The Undefeated
Featured Menace Enters the Republican Mainstream. By Lisa Lerer and Astead W. Herndon / NYT
Featured The 1619 Project and the Long Battle Over U.S. History. By Jake Silverstein / NYT
Featured White Racial Anxiety Strikes Again. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Featured American Psychological Association apologizes for contributing to systemic racism. By Nicole Chavez / CNN
Featured Virginia governor race highlights irony of banning ‘Beloved’ from schools. By Dana A. Williams / NBC News
Featured Jen Senko on how Fox News brainwashed her dad — and is now prepping its audience for fascism. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured Trump’s Big Lie is the new Lost Cause — and it may poison the country for decades. By Lucian K. Truscott IV / Salon