Race Inquiry Digest – The Week’s Top Stories (Feb 1)

The Weekend edition of Race Inquiry Digest features the top stories from the two previous Digests published during the week. Stories are curated from mainstream news sources. Click here for earlier Digests.  (Image by Ranker)

Editor’s Note: Every morning in the Serengeti, Zebras wakeup to a life and death struggle. Over time, the Zebra has developed a temperament that prevents them from being subjugated, i.e. to be rode like a horse, or hitched to a plow. Think like a Zebra!

Political / Social

Trump’s plan to dismantle DEI on day one is a “colorblind” path to Jim Crow 2.0. By Shari Dunn / Salon Read more 

What the Air Force’s Tuskegee Airmen mishap reveals about Trump’s DEI war. By Eugene Robinson / Wash Post  Read more 

Who Is Russell Vought? Probably the Most Important Person in Trump 2.0. By Damon Linker / NYT  Read more 

Trump takes down DEI, historic civil rights law: 5 takeaways. By Phillip M. Bailey / USA Today   Read more 

Pete Hegseth’s Dangerous War on America. By Michael T. Klare / The Nation   Read more 

World News

In his first three days, Trump disrupted America. Then he turned to the world. By Stephen Collinson / CNN  Read more 

Elon Musk urges German far-right party to overcome ‘past guilt.’  By Rachel Treisman / NPR  Read more 

Ethics / Morality / Religion

On Empathy, Bishop Budde, and Christian Nationalism. By Mary Pezzulo / Patheos  Read more 

Black ministers denounce Project 2025, urge collective Black resistance. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS  Read more 

Historical / Cultural

Trump Takes a Red Pen to History. By Frank Bruni / NYT Read more 

The Reckless Creation of Whiteness. By Erin L. Thompson / The Nation  Read more 

Sports

Kobe Bryant docuseries on CNN examines NBA icon five years after death. By Jeff Zillgitt / USA Today  Read more 

The Chiefs have conquered the NFL by sustaining the unsustainable. By Adam Kilgore / Wash Post   Read more 

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