Race Inquiry Digest (Feb 20) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Alfred Street Baptist Church Worship Service. The DEI of Grace. By Rev. Dr. Howard John Wesley / You Tube
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Apparently, America Is Full of the Wrong Kind of People. By Carlos Lozada / NYT
Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Black Folks Wanted a Mass Boycott and it’s Happening Feb. 28. By Lawrence Ware / The Root
Elon Musk Was Raised Under Racist Apartheid Laws in South Africa. What Does He Believe Now? By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
The New Authoritarianism. By Steven Levitsky / The Atlantic
Push to Drop Adams Charges Reveals a Justice Dept. Under Trump’s Sway. By William K. Rashbaum ,Dana Rubinstein, Glenn Thrush,Michael Rothfeld and Jonah E. Bromwich / NYT
Why so many Latino voters supported Donald Trump. By Julia Young and Gema Kloppe-Santamaria / The Conversation
Trump and Musk mislead over South Africa’s land reform law. By Lauren Kent and Nimi Princewill / CNN
Trump Says Palestinians Will Not Be Allowed to Return to Gaza Under His Proposal. By Claire Moses and Shawn McCreesh / NYT
Haitian migrants share stories of abuse as Dominican Republic ramps up deportations. By AP and NPR
Pope decries ‘major crisis’ of Trump’s mass deportation plans, rejects Vance’s theology. By Christopher White / NCR
The path of best resistance: “Faith-rooted messaging would help build broader political support.” By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Black Women and Religion during the Civil Rights Movement: An Interview with AnneMarie Mingo. By Aaron Pride / AAIHS
How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made. By Calvin Schermerhorn /AAIHS
Black Educators as Movement Leaders. By Noah Nelson / AAIHS
All The Ways Sandra Bland’s Legacy Lives On. By Bruce C.T. Wright / NewsOne
The Truth About Black Responsibility In Hollywood. By Candice Frederick / HuffPost
Jalen Hurts’ Super Bowl LIX victory a study in resilience, perseverance. By William C. Rhoden / Andscape
Commanders QB Jayden Daniels is NFL offensive rookie of the year. By Nicki Jhabvala / Wash Post
Conservatives Bothered By Black National Anthem’s Inclusion At Super Bowl LIX. By Jeroslyn JoVonn / Black Enterprise
Kendrick Lamar’s performance was as Black and subversive as all get-out. By Karen Attiah / Wash Post
It is Elon Musk who is now running the United States. Not Donald Trump. By Moira Donegan / The Guardian
DEI programs benefit many groups, not just Black and brown communities. By Nicquel Terry Ellis / CNN
Education Department Cancels $15 Million in Grants for DEI Programs at Three Universities. By Aaron Sibarium / The Wash Free Beacon
Efficiency − or empire? How Elon Musk’s hostile takeover could end government as we know it. By Allison Stanger / The Conversation
‘We’re Being Punished’: NIH Tosses Some Grant Applications From Minority Researchers. By Maddie Khaw and Megan Zahneis / The Chronicle of Higher Ed
