Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 5) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured 7 Black Music Pioneers You Should Know This Black Music Month. By Tabie Germain / BET (Image JFH News)
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Trump’s Lie About Dead “White Farmers” Just Got Even More Grotesque. By Greg Sargent / TNR
Why this diversity leader says scrapping DEI commitments without recognizing the benefits is ‘morally unjust and bankrupt.’ By Burt Morse / Fortune
Trump administration is minimizing white supremacist threat, officials warn. By Tess Owen / The Guardian
Trump’s Week: Rob From the Poor, Give to the Rich, Steal Like Crazy. By Michael Tomasky / TNR
Trump Is Holding International Students at Harvard Hostage. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
Colleges are canceling affinity graduations due to anti-DEI policies. Here is how students are preserving the traditions. By Nicquel Terry Ellis / CNN
How FAMU community plans to thwart Marva Johnson’s path to president. By Tarah Jean / Tallahassee Democrat
Yale University awards honorary degrees to five Black luminaries including Debbie Allen, Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., and Ronald Carter. By Kay Wicker / The Grio
Judge blocks Trump’s plan to dismantle Education Department. By Zachary Schermele / USA Today
Netanyahu is turning Israel into a global pariah – the world has finally run out of patience. By Bel Trew / Independent
Russian attack in Ukraine kills 12 as Zelensky condemns ‘silence of America.’ By Siobhán O’Grady, Serhiy Morgunov and Isobel Koshiw / Wash Post
Lagos on the Way to Being World’s Largest City. By Chris Richburg / Eurweb
Meet the Evangelical Abolitionists Who Can Guide Today’s Church. By Obie Tyler Todd / Christianity Today
Christian nationalists decided empathy is a sin. Now it’s gone mainstream. By Aja Romano / Vox
The Supreme Court Rules Against Religious Public Charter School, For Now. By Nathalie Baptiste / HuffPost
Five years after George Floyd’s murder, church leaders say race relations face retrenchment. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
The Battle for Our Memory Is the Battle for Our Country. By Kimberlé W. Crenshaw / Time
Times Sq. Sculpture Prompts Racist Backlash. To Some, That’s the Point. By Andrew Keh / NYT
