Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Colorblind Campaign to Undo Civil Rights Progress. By Nicole Hannah-Jones / NYT
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured If There’s One Thing Trump Is Right About, It’s Republicans. By Peter Wehner / NYT
It Can Happen Here. By David Corn / Mother Jones
Trump’s claims of a migrant crime wave are not supported by national data. By Olympia Sonnier and Garrett Haake / NBC News
“Just Being Racist”: Biden & Trump Push Anti-Immigrant Policies in Dueling Border Visits. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Biden Is Still the Democrats’ Best Bet for November. By Jonathan V. Last / The Atlantic
Southern Democrat vs. MAGA Republican: Why NC governor race is a defining contest for 2024. Phillip M. Bailey and Savannah Kuchar / USA Today
Judge says he’ll rule whether to remove Fani Willis from Trump case within two weeks. By Charlie Gile and Dareh Gregorian / NBC News
Racial Turnout Gap Has Widened With a Weakened Voting Rights Act, Study Finds. By Nick Corasaniti / NYT
National Urban League Releases ’24 State of Black America Report. By Sharelle Burt / Black Enterprise
Map: See which states have introduced or passed anti-DEI bills. By Char Adams and Nigel Chiwaya / NBC News
What Alabama’s IVF ruling reveals about the ascendant Christian nationalist movement. By Carter Sherman / The Guardian
Hakeem Jeffries’ Black church cultivated his House leadership style. By The Grio and AP
A decade after Reverend Ike’s death, his son writes about his impact on Black church. By Fiona Andre’ / RNS
The deep Biblical spirituality of Bob Marley’s music is being overlooked. By John Blake / CNN
Rare audio of formerly enslaved people connects history to the present. By Terri Martin, Melia Patria, Brianti Downing, and Kiara Alfonseca / ABC News
Black historical interpreters fight to keep history alive as some work to erase it. By Donna M. Owens / NBC News
America’s oldest living person, at 114, may also be the fifth-oldest person on Earth. By Anna Kaplan / Today
These giants of Black history were rivals, but time knits them together. By Theodore R. Johnson / Wash Post
The Essential James Baldwin. By Robert Jones Jr. / NYT
‘We have a real impact’: oldest Black college newspaper in US turns 100. By David Smith / The Guardian
Jeffrey Wright is finally in the Oscar hunt. He’s ready. By Ann Hornaday / Wash Post
Hustlers, grifters and greed: How Jam Master Jay met his tragic end. By Rich Schapiro / NBC News
Beyoncé brings new audience to country music and highlights the genre’s Black roots. By Amna Nawaz, Mary Fecteau and Layla Quran / PBS
LeBron James becomes the first NBA player to eclipse 40,000 career points. By Jovan Buha / The Athletic
Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes is just getting started. By Jason Reid / Andscape
Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game: Why are some saying pics or it didn’t happen? By Paul Farhi / The Athletic
