Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 10) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Why Republicans Want to Dismantle the Education Department. By Michael C. Bender / NYT
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
The war on DEI is an old American story. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post
MSNBC’s Death Rattle. By Dave Zirin / The Nation
The First Black Leader of Virginia Military Institute Is Ousted. By Stephanie Saul / NYT
Trump officials start dismantling civil rights offices, as part of DOGE’s secret plan. By Julian Mark, Hannah Natanson and Danielle Abril / Wash Post
RFK Jr.’s Mental Health Bait and Switch. By Erin Reinhart / TNR
Neo-Nazis targeted a majority-Black town. Locals launched an armed watch. By Daniel Wu / Wash Post
Black Leaders on Why They’ve Turned Against Eric Adams. By Jeffery C. Mays / NYT
Trump-Zelenskyy clash marks a defining turn away from U.S. defense of democracies. By Dan De Luce / NBC News
USAID issues funding termination notices to key South African health programmes. By Tamsin Metelerkamp / Daily Maverick
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World.
A Tale of Two Christianities. By Jeanne Petrolle / Patheos
Documentary highlights the tensions, isolation of being ‘Black + Evangelical.’ By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Historic Black churches receive $8.5 million in preservation grants. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
The Broken Promise of ‘40 Acres and a Mule.’ By Sho Baraka / Christianity Today
Lifelong New York civil rights advocate, NAACP leader Hazel Dukes dies at 92. By Sejal Govindarao / ABC News
Author Ibram X. Kendi on DEI, America’s ‘progression of racism’ and his new book on Malcolm X. By John Blake / CNN
Percival Everett Is Challenging the American Literary Canon. By Eliana Dockterman / Time
Bruno Mars Is Pop’s Most Reliable Male Star. Who Is He, Really? By Shaad D’Souza / NYT
Black gospel music preserved in world’s largest digital archive. By Molly-Jo Tilton / NPR
‘He was a legend’: An oral history of Satchel Paige’s final game at 59. By william Weinbaum / Andscape
The man who blocked for Jim Brown fears America is moving backwards. By Jarrett Bell / USA Today
Steph Curry’s greatness is a scene worth savoring for as long as we can. By John Hollinger / The Athletic
The Truth of a Love Supreme. By Justin Giboney / Christianity Today
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 8) – The Week’s Top Stories
The Weekend Edition of Race Inquiry Digest features the top stories from the two previous Digests published during the week. Click here for earlier Digests.
Why Is Lester Holt Leaving NBC Nightly News? What We Know About His Exit — and Other Networks’ Recent Reshuffling. By Rebecca Aizin / People
How ‘DEI’ replaced ‘structural racism’ in the national conversation. By Erika Franklin Fowler and Neil Lewis Jr / ABC News
