Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 30) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured How Can We Be a Country That Does This to Our Children? By Esau McCaulley / NYT
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
Featured Historians shine light on lesser-known Black History at Bacon’s Castle in Surry County. By Jessica Larche / WTKR
Featured Black Theology Sings of Freedom. By Dante Stewart / Christianity Today
Featured National Divorce Is More Popular Than You Think. By Bonnie Kristan / The Daily Beast
Featured Who’s Afraid of Black History? By Henry Louis Gates Jr. / NYT
Featured Church at the Super Bowl: Football, Jesus and fascism. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured ‘The Americans Got Together and Decided to Drown You in the River.’ By Danny Cherry Jr. / Politico
Featured Believe It: A DeSantis Presidency Could Be Even Worse Than Trump. By Bryan Tannehill / The New Republic
Featured The Meaning of African American Studies. By Keeanga-Yamahtta-Taylor / The New Yorker
Featured The limited usefulness of Black conservatives. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Featured Violent History Echoes in the Killing of Tyre Nichols. By Emil Yetlin / NYT
Featured Florida is offering an advanced lesson in anti-Blackness. By Karen Attiah / Wash Post
Featured Florida Gov. DeSantis leads the GOP’s national charge against public education that includes lessons on race and sexual orientation. By Jonathan Feingold / The…
Featured By Dismantling Racist Myths, The 1619 Project Becomes Intensely Patriotic TV. By Stephen Robinson / Primetimer
Featured Martin Luther King Jr.’s Other Dreams. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Featured Florida Man Calls the Thought Police. By Victor Ray / The Nation
Featured Historic House speaker election highlighted matters of race and representation. By Juma Sei / NPR
Featured America Loves to Celebrate ‘Firsts’ Like Hakeem Jeffries. It Doesn’t Always Make It Easy for Them to Lead. By Janell Ross / Yahoo News…
Featured It’s hard to believe, but things are getting better. They will continue to if we keep up the fight. By Robert Reich / The…
Featured The “Faces” of Black Conservatism Tell Us Everything—About the GOP. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
Featured Jesus Was a Brown Baby. By Dorena Williamson / Christianity Today