Race Inquiry Digest (May 12) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Pope Leo’s Creole Roots Evoke Sense of Connection From Some Catholics of Color. By John Eligon / NYT
Featured Pope Leo’s Creole Roots Evoke Sense of Connection From Some Catholics of Color. By John Eligon / NYT
Featured The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History. By David Frum / The Atlantic
Featured Trump turns civil rights upside down in ‘biggest rollback’ since Reconstruction. By Zachary B. Wolf / CNN
Featured Trump Recasts Mission of Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights Office, Prompting ‘Exodus.’ By Devlin Barrett / NYT
Featured The Real Meaning of Trump’s Smithsonian Executive Order. By Clint Smith / The Atlantic
Featured Trump’s Power Feeds on White Demographic Fears. By James Risen / The Intercept
Featured What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal. By David Brooks / NYT
Featured America, This Is an Old and Brutal Tyranny. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Featured The Ways of White Folks. By Langston Hughes / Wikipedia
Featured Black Americans Are Not Surprised. By Christina Greer / NYT (Image by NPR)
Featured Why Black Men Face So Many Barriers to a College Education. By Allison Wiltz / Level
Featured Frank Luntz: Booker marathon speech ‘may have changed the course of political history.’ By Ashleigh Fields / The Hill
Featured Critics see Trump attacks on the ‘Black Smithsonian’ as an effort to sanitize racism in US history. By Bill Barrow / AP and ABC…
Featured Black Athletes Could Upset March Madness And End Attacks On DEI. By Shaun Harper / Forbes
Featured Trump’s deranged purge of American history is the story of white supremacy. By Michael Signorile / AlterNet
Featured America is Running Out of White People. By William Spivey / Level
Featured Trump Tries to Use White South Africans as Cautionary Tale. By John Eligon / NYT
Featured Project 2025 – From Wikipedia . Summarized and annotated with links.
Featured Why Republicans Want to Dismantle the Education Department. By Michael C. Bender / NYT
Featured Trump, by Any Means Necessary. By David Frum / The Atlantic
Featured The Truth of a Love Supreme. By Justin Giboney / Christianity Today
Featured “This is our time”: Economic blackout targets injustice. By Venessa McGrady / Salon
Featured The Great Resegregation. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Featured Alfred Street Baptist Church Worship Service. The DEI of Grace. By Rev. Dr. Howard John Wesley / You Tube
Featured Trump’s White Nationalist Agenda, Explained. By Garrison Hayes / Mother Jones
Featured Kendrick Lamar’s performance was as Black and subversive as all get-out. By Karen Attiah / Wash Post
Featured What the Black Church Can Teach the Rest of American Christianity. The Russell Moore Show / Christianity Today Podcast
Featured Trump vows to save white South Africans while Musk calls for welcoming them as refugees. By Nicholas Liu / Salon
Featured Don’t Fall for Trump’s D.E.I. Dodge. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Featured What the Air Force’s Tuskegee Airmen mishap reveals about Trump’s DEI war. By Eugene Robinson / Wash Post
Featured DEI: General Opinions Trump’s plan to dismantle DEI on day one is a “colorblind” path to Jim Crow 2.0. By Shari Dunn / Salon
Featured Donald Trump Is As Self-Obsessed As Ever, And Other Takeaways From His Inauguration. By Daniel Marans and Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost