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SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT

A SUNDAY AFTERNOON NEWSLETTER

“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” —H. W. Longfellow

A young Ukrainian refugee was stabbed to death on a train in North Carolina. The horrifying video of the incident has sparked conversations about a racial reckoning very different from that of 2020. From the archive, three authors consider the question of race and public disorder.

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FEBRUARY 1991 ● BY LAWRENCE M. MEAD

RACE AND URBAN POLITICS ([link removed])

The radicals said, in effect, that their followers could not be expected to behave well in a racist society.

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DECEMBER 2020 ● BY MARY EBERSTADT

THE FURY OF THE FATHERLESS ([link removed])
The murder problem is largely a gang problem, and the gang problem is largely a daddy problem.

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FEBRUARY 2011 ● BY JAMES NUECHTERLEIN

RACE MATTERS ([link removed])

When moderate whites supported civil rights legislation, they thought they were securing social peace.

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