Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 10) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Alabama brawl turns spotlight on Montgomery’s racial history. By Nicquel Terry Ellis and Chandelis Duster / CNN
Featured Alabama brawl turns spotlight on Montgomery’s racial history. By Nicquel Terry Ellis and Chandelis Duster / CNN
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
Featured Clarence Thomas, Harlan Crow And The Original Meaning Of Corruption. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
Featured Whose Queen? Netflix and Egypt Spar Over an African Cleopatra. By Vivian Yee / NYT
Featured A California panel has called for billions in reparations for black residents. By AP and NPR People listen to the California reparations task force,…
Featured 60 years on, King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ relevant as ever, say faith leaders. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Featured Tucker Carlson Brought TV Racism Into The 21st Century. By Matt Shuham and Christopher Mathias / HuffPost