Featured – Sample The Best Jazz Albums of 2017 plus the best historical releases. Even as the world goes up in smoke, artists still make art, and this very much includes jazz musicians, whose best work this year (at least the best that I managed to hear amid the noise) plumbed old and new, tradition and innovation, structure and freedom. Read more and listen
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder – review. The Yale historian’s important book argues that we must learn from the horrors of the past if we want to protect our democracy. Read more
The past year of research has made it very clear: Trump won because of racial resentment. Another study produces the same findings we’ve seen over and over again. Read more
Can Black Voters Turn the South Blue? What I am arguing is that we actually embrace the new reality of what the South looks like,” said Stacey Abrams, a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the Georgia governor’s race. Read more
Why 2017 was R&B’s return to glory. Disastrous as it was politically, emotionally, spiritually, 2017 was still a triumphant year for that soulful genre: R&B. Read more
Seahawks So Woke. How the Seattle football team became the social justice warriors of the NFL. Read more
No One Is Talking About the Drug Crisis Killing Black People. A new study looks at fatal drug overdoses by race. Read more
It’s still too easy to push blacks, minorities off of juries. Connecticut case shows how ‘race-neutral’ eliminations in jury selection can usher in discrimination. Rules must be changed to close loopholes. Read more
GOP Tax Bill Could Turn America Into World’s Most Unequal Society, UN Expert Warns. The poverty expert delivered a blistering report on inequality and the social safety net in the U.S. Read more
This video of jubilant students at a small-town Louisiana school inspired millions. Here’s why. TM Landry College Preparatory school in Breaux Bridge, La., film the moment their seniors get accepted into college. It’s inspiring people around the country. Read more
Visit our home page for more articles and register your email to receive notification of Race Inquiry Digest updates. Click here for earlier Digests.