National News
Wells Fargo Rejected Half Its Black Applicants in Mortgage Refinancing Boom. By Shawn Donnan, Ann Choi, Hannah Levitt and Christopher Cannon /Bloomberg
Doctor who worked on COVID vaccine talks changing the game in science. By CBS News
Breonna Taylor’s Family, Supporters Sustain Push For Justice. By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn / HuffPost
Legalize It: Why Cannabis Reform Is A Civil Rights Issue. By Sen. Cory Booker / Huff Post
Are free buses a tool for social justice? Boston wants to find out. By Joanna Slater / Wash Post
Why Pew’s new study on Black Catholicism is critical for US church leaders. By Tia Noelle Pratt / NCR
Study: Christians, Jews and Muslims encounter workplace discrimination differently. By Alejandra Molina / RN
Why the School Wars Still Rage. By Jill Lepore / The New Yorker
Maryland’s last public Confederate monument removed. By Julio Cortez / AP and ABC News
Plantations could be used to teach about US slavery if stories are told truthfully. By Amy Potter and Derek H. Alderman / The Conversation
Black man’s death in Indiana ruled a lynching nearly 100 years later. By David K. Li. / NBC News
Polo Ralph Lauren Unveils HBCU Capsule Collection for Morehouse and Spelman Colleges. By Dan Heching / People
Florida lawmakers limit how race can be taught in classrooms and companies. By Andrew Atterbury / Politico
When a School Desegregates, Who Gets Left Behind? By Jay Caspian King / NYT
Texas Republicans’ Voting Law Disenfranchised Thousands Of Voters. By Matt Shuham and Kate Riga / TPM
New revelations about Herschel Walker show how Democrats could hold the Senate. By Paul Wadman / Wash Post
Civil Rights Leaders Decry Census Undercount Of Black, Latinx, Native Americans. By Mike Schneider / HuffPost
Stopping Asian American hate: AAPI teachers fight racism with history. By Alia Wong / USA Today
Emmett Till relatives seek renewed probe of ’55 lynching. By Emily Wagster Pettus and Jay Reeves / ABC News
Black women have driven Black-owned businesses to above pre-pandemic levels. By Jasmine Garsd / NPR
Walking With a Modern-Day Moses. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
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
