On Race in America
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 24) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Unsung African American Scientists of the Manhattan Project. By Farrell Evans / History
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 20) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured ‘Gut-level Hatred’ Is Consuming Our Political Life. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured GOP state attorneys general shift affirmative action battle lines to the workplace. By Wyatte Grantham-Phillips and Geoff Mulvhill / PBS
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 13) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Supreme Court didn’t end affirmative action for white people. By Fabiola Cineas / Vox
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 10) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured What Was Clarence Thomas Thinking? The Most Baffling Argument a Supreme Court Justice Has Ever Made. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 6) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Harvard legacy admissions lawsuit follows affirmative action Supreme Court ruling. By Collin Bindley / AP and Fortune.
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 3) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Supreme Court struck down admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina that used race in college admissions Thursday.
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 29) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Diversity, equity and inclusion: The new American battlefield. By Tirien Steinbach / The Hill
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 26) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Why the right is so terrified of “woke”: There are truths it just can’t face. By Kirk Swearingen / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 22) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured “Red states are forming ‘a nation within a nation’ with laws that recreate ‘a pre-1960s world.’ By Brad Reed / Raw Story
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Saving democracy at home and abroad requires, and required, diversity and inclusion. By Herbert M. Berkowitz / Tampa Bay Times
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Affirmative Action Never Had a Chance. By Zak Cheney-Rice / New York Magazine
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 12) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Racism Pervades College Sports. It’s Taking An Alarming Toll On Athletes. By Margo Snipe / Capital B
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 8) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Jonathan Butler on his jazz album ‘Ubuntu.’ By Ayesha Rascoe / NPR
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 5) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured A Black girl won the first national spelling bee, dealing a blow to racism. By Bill Chappell / NPR
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 1) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Most Americans say colleges should be able to use affirmative action in admissions, but race should play a small role, new poll shows. By…
Race Inquiry Digest (May 29) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured DEI: The Case for Common Ground. By James E. Ryan / The Chronicle of Higher Education
Race Inquiry Digest (May 25) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured ‘Our History Is Our Power’: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore Delivers Commencement Address At Morehouse College. By Melissa Noel / Essence
Race Inquiry Digest (May 22) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured NAACP issues travel warning in Florida: the state ‘has become hostile to Black Americans.’ By Julia Shapiro / The Hill
Race Inquiry Digest (May 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured DeSantis signs bill to defund DEI programs at Florida’s public colleges. By Jack Stripling / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (May 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Clarence Thomas, Harlan Crow And The Original Meaning Of Corruption. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
Race Inquiry Digest (May 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Whose Queen? Netflix and Egypt Spar Over an African Cleopatra. By Vivian Yee / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (May 8) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured A California panel has called for billions in reparations for black residents. By AP and NPR People listen to the California reparations task force,…
Race Inquiry Digest (May 4) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured 60 years on, King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ relevant as ever, say faith leaders. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Race Inquiry Digest (May 1)
Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Tucker Carlson Brought TV Racism Into The 21st Century. By Matt Shuham and Christopher Mathias / HuffPost
Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 24) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Trapped in the Trumpocene nightmare. By Chauncey Devega / Salon