Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 24) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Unsung African American Scientists of the Manhattan Project. By Farrell Evans / History
Featured The Unsung African American Scientists of the Manhattan Project. By Farrell Evans / History
Featured ‘Gut-level Hatred’ Is Consuming Our Political Life. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Featured GOP state attorneys general shift affirmative action battle lines to the workplace. By Wyatte Grantham-Phillips and Geoff Mulvhill / PBS
Featured The Supreme Court didn’t end affirmative action for white people. By Fabiola Cineas / Vox
Featured What Was Clarence Thomas Thinking? The Most Baffling Argument a Supreme Court Justice Has Ever Made. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Featured Harvard legacy admissions lawsuit follows affirmative action Supreme Court ruling. By Collin Bindley / AP and Fortune.
Featured The Supreme Court struck down admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina that used race in college admissions Thursday.
Featured Diversity, equity and inclusion: The new American battlefield. By Tirien Steinbach / The Hill
Featured Why the right is so terrified of “woke”: There are truths it just can’t face. By Kirk Swearingen / Salon
Featured “Red states are forming ‘a nation within a nation’ with laws that recreate ‘a pre-1960s world.’ By Brad Reed / Raw Story
Featured Saving democracy at home and abroad requires, and required, diversity and inclusion. By Herbert M. Berkowitz / Tampa Bay Times
Featured Affirmative Action Never Had a Chance. By Zak Cheney-Rice / New York Magazine
Featured Racism Pervades College Sports. It’s Taking An Alarming Toll On Athletes. By Margo Snipe / Capital B
Featured Jonathan Butler on his jazz album ‘Ubuntu.’ By Ayesha Rascoe / NPR
Featured A Black girl won the first national spelling bee, dealing a blow to racism. By Bill Chappell / NPR
Featured Most Americans say colleges should be able to use affirmative action in admissions, but race should play a small role, new poll shows. By…
Featured DEI: The Case for Common Ground. By James E. Ryan / The Chronicle of Higher Education
Featured ‘Our History Is Our Power’: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore Delivers Commencement Address At Morehouse College. By Melissa Noel / Essence
Featured NAACP issues travel warning in Florida: the state ‘has become hostile to Black Americans.’ By Julia Shapiro / The Hill
Featured DeSantis signs bill to defund DEI programs at Florida’s public colleges. By Jack Stripling / Wash Post