Race Inquiry Digest (May 16) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Still Essential, Still Elusive: Brown v. Board of Education at 70. By R. Shep Melnick / Education Next
Featured Still Essential, Still Elusive: Brown v. Board of Education at 70. By R. Shep Melnick / Education Next
Featured Why are Jews afraid? By Jeffrey Salkin / Religion News Service
Featured “He was bigger and blocking the way”: Stormy Daniels takes the stand and reminds people who Trump is. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Featured The Illiberalism at America’s Core. By Julian E. Zelizer / The New Republic
Featured Can this firm invest in only Black women? This case will decide. By Julian Mark / Wash Post
Featured ‘Project 2025’ and the Movement That Could Erode Black Equality. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
Featured The Black Tax: why have African Americans been cheated by the system for so long? By Veronica Esposito / The Guardian
Featured The Haiti I Know Is No More. But There Is Still Hope. By Joel Dreyfuss / Politico
Featured Prostate Cancer: Notable Black People Who Died From Illness. By Newsone
Featured O.J. Simpson dead: The biggest misunderstanding of his legacy. By Joel Anderson / Slate
Featured Minority Rule Is Threatening American Democracy Like Never Before. By Ari Berman / Mother Jones
Featured How Trump Is Dividing Minority Communities. By Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic
Featured Hope is not the same as optimism, a psychologist explains − just look at MLK’s example. By Kendra Thomas / The Conversation
Featured Black Athletes Could Upset March Madness And End Attacks On DEI. By Shaun Harper / Forbes
Featured History of The Crisis Magazine: “A Record of the Darker Races.” By the NAACP
Featured Elon Musk Is Preoccupied With Something He Doesn’t Understand. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Featured How the Black female head of a top D.C. school was ‘punished for leading.’ By Shirley Moody-Turner / Wash Post
Featured Jonathan Kozol Fought School Inequality for Decades. Here’s One Final Plea. By Dana Goldstein / NYT
Featured The Colorblind Campaign to Undo Civil Rights Progress. By Nicole Hannah-Jones / NYT
Featured If There’s One Thing Trump Is Right About, It’s Republicans. By Peter Wehner / NYT
Featured Wall Street’s DEI Retreat Has Officially Begun. By Max Abelson, Simone Foxman, and Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg
Featured With Jan. 6 case, the Supreme Court could take America down the dark road to dictatorship. By Thomas G. Moukawsher / Salon
Featured The economy is roaring. Immigration is a key reason. By Rachel Siegel , Lauren Kaori Gurley and Meryl Kornfield / Wash Post
Featured Man on a mission: NFL great Alan Page’s quest for justice in football and beyond. By Dan Pompei / The Athletic
Featured Supreme Court allows ‘race neutral’ Virginia high school admissions policy that bolsters diversity. By Lawrence Hurley / NBC News
Featured When Fani Willis took the stand, her fury was precise and laser-focused. By Robin Givhan / Wash Post
Featured How Wall Street Funded Slavery. By David Montero / Time
Featured Black civil rights organizations are rallying to counter anti-DEI rhetoric. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News