Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 23) – The Week’s Top Stories
The Weekend Edition of Race Inquiry Digest features the top stories from the two previous Digests published during the week. Click here for earlier Digests.
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Black mayors and leaders decry Trump’s threats to deploy National Guard in cities. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Trump Keeps Targeting Black Folks, and the Reason Why is Staring Us In The Face. By Lawrence Ware / The Root
Newsom says California to draw congressional maps to ‘END TRUMP PRESIDENCY.’ By Oren Oppenheim / ABC News
The Supreme Court May Be About To Deal A Final Blow To The Voting Rights Act. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
American Nazis: The Aryan Freedom Network is riding high in Trump era. By Aram Roston / USA Today
Over 60,000 Are in Immigration Detention, a Modern High, Records Show. By Chris Cameron and Hamed Aleaziz / NYT
Trump’s Assault on Universities Isn’t Just About Education. By Perry Bacon / TNR
At Colleges, Diversity Training Is Out. Dialogue Workshops Are In. By Aisha Baiocchi / The Chronicle of Higher Ed
West Point and Air Force Academy Affirmative Action Lawsuits Are Dropped. By Vimal Patel / NYT
When Is It Genocide? The Ezra Klein Show / NYT Podcast
South African coalition party says US trade deal may hinge on race policies. By Nellie Peyton / Reuters
Donald Trump Is About to Do to Europe What He’s Been Doing to America. By Michael Tomasky / TNR
Progressive Leaders Across the Americas Unite Against Growing Global Fascism. By José Luis Granados Ceja / Truthout
Black spirituality is what the world needs now. By Daryl Grigsby / Black Catholic Messenger
With new Vatican ambassador, Trump sends culture-war message to American Catholics. By Katherine Kelaidis / RNS
Why Evangelicals Couldn’t Care Less About Trump’s Epstein Scandal. By Rob Schenck / Mother Jones
How Much Do These Pastors Gross Preaching The Gospel? By Ahsan Washington / Black Enterprise
Trump Against History. By The New Republic
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Broken Promise of ‘Brown v. Board of Ed.,’ Sixty Years Later. By Katrina Vanden Heuvel / The Nation
Black Moses’ tells a powerful story of political ambition. By Aram Goudsouzian / Wash Post
Beyoncé Is Now Halfway To EGOT Status After This Major Win. By AP and HuffPost
Baldwin: A Love Story. By Nicholas Boggs / Amazon Books
Frances Tiafoe opens up on life in ‘white sport’ tennis. By Ella Kipling / Daily Express
Ben Shelton will break American men’s tennis Grand Slam drought. By Dan Wolken / USA Today
Naomi Osaka releases statement after criticism over what she did following Canadian Open final defeat. By Ryan Smart / Sportbible
What Federal Control of D.C. Police Could Mean for Overpolicing in Black Communities. By Christina Carrega / Capital B
Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was.’ By Zolan Kanno-Youngs / NYT
Let Voters, Not Politicians, Decide Elections. By Jeffrey A. Mandell / The Progressive Magazine
Justice Dept. Subpoenas Office of Letitia James, Who Sued Trump for Fraud. By Jonah E. Bromwich, Devlin Barrett, Glenn Thrush and Santul Nerkar / NYT
Kamala Harris will not run for California governor, opening door for 2028 run. By Maeve Reston / Wash Post
