Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 1) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Black Athletes Could Upset March Madness And End Attacks On DEI. By Shaun Harper / Forbes
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Biden steps up efforts to reach voters of color. By Julia Mueller / The Hill
Who brought the crime, the drugs and the rape? It was him. By Kirk Swearingen / Salon
Alvin Bragg’s Case Against Trump: Four Things to Know. By Kim Wehle / The Bulwark
Republicans Who Do Not Regularly Watch Fox Are Less Likely to Back Trump. By Ruth Igielnik / NYT
The Supreme Court Is Playing a Dangerous Game. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
If Trump and His Heroes Ruled the World. By Jordan Michael Smith / TNR
Haiti’s crisis is at a tipping point. The world needs to help. By David Vanderpool / RNS
UN Chief Calls Starvation In Gaza ‘Moral Outrage’, Calls For ‘Flood’ Of Aid. By Samy Magdy, Amr Nabil and Sam Metz / AP and HuffPost
Post falsely claims South Africa arrested US ambassador. By Joedy McCreary / USA Today
Watch: UN Ambassador concerned about conflicts in Africa. By April Ryan / The Grio
Mar-A-Lago prayer event labels Trump voters’ ‘only Catholic option’. By Brian Fraga / NCR
The Great Rupture in American Jewish Life. By Peter Beinart / NYT
Biden’s Muslim American judicial nominee threatened by smear campaign. By Yonat Shimron / RNS
When it Raines, it pours: Civil War scholarship and Alabama Unionists. By Jim Vickrey / Montgomery Advertiser
A Florida Community Faces Erasure. Residents Are Honoring Its History. By Aallyah Wright / Capital B
When Segregation Prevailed in the US, Boys Town May Have Been Nation’s First Integrated Community. By Henry Cordes / Omaha World-Herald
Daring to Be Bold: Examining Shirley Chisholm’s Everlasting Impact. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
Beyoncé says an experience where she ‘did not feel welcomed’ spurred her to make ‘Cowboy Carter’ country album. By Alli Rosenbloom / CNN
Is Kevin Hart funny? By Travis M. Andrews / Wash Post
For Black college athletes, this is the bus boycott of our era. By Derrick Johnson / CNN
Players from first all-Black All-American women’s basketball team reflect on making history in 1984. By Branson Wright / Andscape
Tennis phenom Coco Gauff strives for a medal and a second Grand Slam title while giving back to her community. By Sam Brock and Carmen Gonzalez / NBC News
Elon Musk Is Preoccupied With Something He Doesn’t Understand. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured History of The Crisis Magazine: “A Record of the Darker Races.” By the NAACP
Radicalized by the right: Elon Musk puts his conspiratorial thinking on display for the world to see. By Oliver Darcy / CNN
Presidential Historian: Trump Actually Doing ‘Us All A Favor’ With Fascist Rhetoric. By Lee Moran / HuffPost
Why Fani Willis was allowed to stay on as prosecutor of criminal case against Trump in Georgia – and what happens next. By Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. / The Conversation
America’s Largest Minority Is Also Its Most Misunderstood. By Marie Arana / NYT
The Crumbleys Have Been Convicted. Black Parents Will Likely Pay a Price, Too. By Nia T. Evans / Mother Jones
Rankin County, Mississippi: ‘Goon Squad’ leader and another deputy sentenced for torture of two Black men. Four other ex-officers still face sentencing. By Emma Tucker, Ryan Young, Jade Gordon and Shawn Nottingham / CNN
