Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Why an Unremarkable Racist Enjoyed the Backing of Billionaires. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT – Image The Racket
Featured Why an Unremarkable Racist Enjoyed the Backing of Billionaires. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT – Image The Racket
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.