Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 8) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Jonathan Butler on his jazz album ‘Ubuntu.’ By Ayesha Rascoe / NPR
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
Featured Trapped in the Trumpocene nightmare. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured America is being destroyed by domestic hate, National Urban League report says. By Justin Gamble / CNN
Featured The real message behind expelling the Black members of the ‘Tennessee Three.’ By Jemar Tisby / CNN
Featured Tenn. GOP deepens racial tension after expelling Black lawmakers. By Annie Gowen and Hadley Green / Wash Post
Featured How the 1876 presidential election enabled Jim Crow. By Tom Hanks and Jeffery Robinson / Wash Post
Featured What Trump’s Legal Woes Mean to Black Americans. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
Featured How Can We Be a Country That Does This to Our Children? By Esau McCaulley / NYT
Featured Florida NAACP, Gov. Ron DeSantis clash over proposed travel advisory. Governor call it a “joke.” By Zac Anderson / USA Today
Featured Corporate America Is No Longer Pretending to Care About Diversity. By Elie Mystal / The Nation – Illustration CNN
Featured Ibram X. Kendi says a backlash has ‘crushed’ the nation’s racial reckoning. But there’s one reason he remains hopeful. By John Blake / CNN
Featured This is no culture war: Republicans are waging a war on democracy. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured Why We Must Teach African American Studies: A Call to Action. By Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy and Johnetta Betch Cole / Diverse Issues in Higher Ed
Featured A GOP war on ‘woke’? Most Americans see term as positive: Ipsos Poll. By Susan Page / USA Today (Image Chattanooga Times Free Press)
Featured Let’s give thanks to the “Dilbert” guy. By Lucian K. Truscott IV / Salon