National News
Cornel West Sees a Spiritual Decay in the Culture. By Vinson Cunningham / The New Yorker
The painful, cutting and brilliant letters Black people wrote to their former enslavers. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Polo Ralph Lauren Unveils HBCU Capsule Collection for Morehouse and Spelman Colleges. By Dan Heching / People
Supreme Court Rejects Legal Theory That Would Eviscerate Voting Rights – For Now. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
Emmett Till Antilynching Act heads to Biden’s desk. By Kiara Alfonseca / ABC News
Demanding That Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘Show Her Papers.’ By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Supreme Court Won’t Review Decision Freeing Bill Cosby From Prison. By Maryclaire Dale / HuffPost
Is Texas Sending Melissa Lucio to Die for a Crime That Never Happened? By Liliana Segur and Jordan Smith / The Intercept
Home prices could soar another 20% this year, but Black families are struggling to benefit. By Nicole Bachaud / CNN
Can the Christian right quit Putin? By Molly Olmstead / Slate
New Netflix docuseries ‘jeen-yuhs’ chronicles Kanye West’s belief in God and himself. By Emily McFarlan Mille / NCR
The African American Origins of Modern Asylum. By Sean Gallagher / AAIHS
He Joined the Attica Prison Uprising. He Hopes a New Documentary Can Set the Record Straight. By Eamon Whalen / Mother Jones
Panicked White People Tried To Ban Books In The ’80s, Too — With Jerry Falwell Leading The Way. By Fred L. Pincus / TPM
Fighting back against CRT panic: Educators organize around the threat to academic freedom. By Kathryn Joyce / Salon
“We’re very concerned:” Black voters fear changes to Georgia voting laws. By Janelle Griffith / NBC News
Report: Black people are still killed by police at a higher rate than other groups. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Members of Congress highlight missing minority women, girls. By Susan Montoya Bryan / AP and ABC News
Eric DeValkenaere: Former Kansas City police officer sentenced to 6 years for killing a Black man during a 2019 traffic incident. By Andy Rose and Aya Elamroussi / CNN
How the Catholic Church can better serve the Black community this Lent. By Tevin Williams / NCR
Andrew Young, at 90, views his civic, political roles ‘as a pastorate.’ By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
First Black Univ. of Alabama student dies days after building named for her. By AP and NPR
Mary McLeod Bethune, civil rights pioneer, advised presidents on ‘the problems of my people.’ By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
How the Mainstream Movement Against Gender-Based Violence Fails Black Workers and Survivors. By Madison Pauly / Mother Jones
‘So Much Hatred’: Jury Foreman Shaken by Evidence in Arbery Trial. By Richard Fausset and Tariro Mzezewa / NYT
For Black Americans, living longer impacts health and wealth. By Kristopher J. Brooks / CBS News
