Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 26) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Black prosecutors taking on Trump know what they’re up against. By Paul Butler / Wash Post
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Now Is the Moment for Biden’s Age to Be an Asset. By Lydia Polgreen / NYT
Tanya Chutkan, an Unflinching Judge in the Trump Jan. 6 Trial. By Robert Draper / NYT
“Deprogramming” the Trump cult: Is it too late to “humanize those who worship at the altar of MAGA”? By Chauncey Devega / Salon
RFK Jr., West independent bids leave both parties fretting about 2024. By Hanna Trudo / The Hill
Anti-affirmative action activist targets 3 more law firms’ diversity fellowships. By Nate Raymond / Reuters
A Trump-Appointed Federal Judge Just Ruled a Texas County Violated the Voting Rights Act. By Julia Lurie / Mother Jones
Colorado officer who confronted Elijah McClain found guilty of criminally negligent homicide. By Deon J. Hampton, David K. Li and Phil Helsel / NBC News
Historically Black colleges weigh solutions as threats to campus security multiply. By David Steele / Andscape
Do Early R.S.V. Vaccine Trials Have a Henrietta Lacks Story? By Charles M. Blow / NYT
California creates nation’s first ‘Ebony Alert’ to find missing Black children. By Jonathan Franklin / NPR
Van Jones Says He Was Going To Be Put ‘In An Early Grave’ After Receiving $100M From Jeff Bezos. By Samantha Dorisca / Afrotech
In new book, James Baldwin emerges as a prophet for our time. By Yonat Shimron / RNS
Florida faith leader: Black history toolkit gains interest outside the state. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Esau McCaulley: Are We There Yet? By Heather Thompson Day / Christianity Today Podcast
SCOTUS Is Helping The Christian Right Undermine The Force Of Anti-Discrimination Law. By Pauline Jones and Andrew Murphy / TPM
When White Leaders Said the Quiet Part Out Loud. Famous quotes advocating racism. By William Spivey / The Good Men Project
How Jesmyn Ward Is Reimagining Southern Literature. By Imani Perry / NYT
‘The Burial’ Review: A Mississippi Courtroom Drama. By Glenn Kenny / NYT
How Racism Doomed Kim Novak and Sammy Davis Jr.’s Relationship in 1950s: ‘I Was Told Not to See Him.’ By Eric Andersson / People
Hollywood’s minority writers fear diversity to fall further down the agenda after strike. By Danielle Broadway / Reuters
Rudolph Isley, Founding Member Of Isley Brothers, Dies At 84. By AP and HuffPost
Black Music Sunday: Celebrating Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the birth of Afrobeat. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
You just feel hopeless’: Twenty years after St. Joe’s historic hoops run, an absence haunts the team. By Dana O’Neil / The Athletic
Reviving the spirit of FAMU’s greatest athlete, Althea Gibson. By Eddie Jackson / Tallahassee Democrat.
Andscape roundtable: Why Colorado Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders has taken over college football. By Andscape Staff
This Is How the Republican Party Got Southernized. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 23) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured What the Black Struggle Tells Us About the Israel-Hamas War. By Zak Cheney-Rice / New York Magazine