Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 7) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Rev William Barber’s ‘moral movement’ confronts Trump’s America. Can it work? By Adam Harris / The Guardian
Featured The Rev William Barber’s ‘moral movement’ confronts Trump’s America. Can it work? By Adam Harris / The Guardian
Featured Public health expert: Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will cause misery and death. By Chauncey Devega / Salon (Image by CBS)
Featured How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months. By Nikole Hannah-Jones / NYT
Featured Trump is terrified of Black culture. But not for the reasons you think. By Saida Gundy / The Guardian (Image Rosemary Works School)
Featured William Parker Recalls How He Escaped Slavery. By William Parker / The Atlantic
Featured Maybe Trump and Miller Don’t Understand Americans as Well as They Think They Do. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Featured Trump Wants You to Get Used to This. By Ruth Ben-Ghiat / NYT
Featured 7 Black Music Pioneers You Should Know This Black Music Month. By Tabie Germain / BET (Image JFH News)
Featured Trump’s Attacks on Black History Betray America. By Ibram X. Kendi / NYT
Featured Reimagining Racial Categories: Moving Beyond “White People” in Our Lexicon. By Chat GPT (AI generated)
Featured The world witnessed George Floyd’s murder. 5 years later, what has changed? By Michel Martin / NPR
Featured An Open Letter to Clarence Thomas. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
Featured A Trumped Up Police State Is Coming. By Radley Balko, Akela Lacy and Jessica Washington / The Intercept Briefing Podcast
Featured They Were Waiting for Trump All Along. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Featured Pope Leo’s Creole Roots Evoke Sense of Connection From Some Catholics of Color. By John Eligon / NYT
Featured The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History. By David Frum / The Atlantic
Featured Trump turns civil rights upside down in ‘biggest rollback’ since Reconstruction. By Zachary B. Wolf / CNN
Featured Trump Recasts Mission of Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights Office, Prompting ‘Exodus.’ By Devlin Barrett / NYT
Featured The Real Meaning of Trump’s Smithsonian Executive Order. By Clint Smith / The Atlantic
Featured Trump’s Power Feeds on White Demographic Fears. By James Risen / The Intercept
Featured What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal. By David Brooks / NYT
Featured America, This Is an Old and Brutal Tyranny. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Featured The Ways of White Folks. By Langston Hughes / Wikipedia
Featured Black Americans Are Not Surprised. By Christina Greer / NYT (Image by NPR)
Featured Why Black Men Face So Many Barriers to a College Education. By Allison Wiltz / Level
Featured Frank Luntz: Booker marathon speech ‘may have changed the course of political history.’ By Ashleigh Fields / The Hill
Featured Critics see Trump attacks on the ‘Black Smithsonian’ as an effort to sanitize racism in US history. By Bill Barrow / AP and ABC…
Featured Black Athletes Could Upset March Madness And End Attacks On DEI. By Shaun Harper / Forbes
Featured Trump’s deranged purge of American history is the story of white supremacy. By Michael Signorile / AlterNet
Featured America is Running Out of White People. By William Spivey / Level
Featured Trump Tries to Use White South Africans as Cautionary Tale. By John Eligon / NYT
Featured Project 2025 – From Wikipedia . Summarized and annotated with links.