Current Reads on Race, Power Structures, and Public Life

Culture and Society

• Racial Inequities in US Housing: 2025 Report

  — Chandan Economics

  Comprehensive analysis of racial disparities in housing affordability, wealth, credit access, and environmental quality, documenting how historical discrimination continues to shape outcomes for Black and Brown Americans.

• Race, Inequality, and Health

  — Kaiser Family Foundation

  Updated overview of health disparities across racial groups, examining how social and economic factors drive unequal health outcomes, and how recent federal actions may impact progress on addressing these gaps.

• Key Data on Health and Health Care by Race and Ethnicity

  — Kaiser Family Foundation

  Detailed examination of how Black, Hispanic, and AIAN populations fare worse across most social and economic measures compared to white Americans, including employment, poverty, and educational attainment.

• Racial Health Disparities Could Widen as States Grapple with Trump Cuts, Experts Warn

  — Stateline

  Public health experts warn that federal funding cuts to equity-focused programs may reverse progress on addressing racial health disparities that were starkly revealed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Black Americans Still Face Large Home Appraisal Gap, New Report Shows — NPR
  https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/black-home-appraisal-gap-report

Institutions and Community Work

• Gov. Newsom Signs Reparations Study Law but Vetoes Other Racial Justice Proposals

  — KPBS Public Media

  California's governor delivers mixed results for reparations advocates, signing legislation for a $6 million study on confirming descendant status while vetoing bills on college admissions preferences and eminent domain investigations.

• San Francisco Mayor Signs Historic Reparations Fund Into Law

  — UMass Amherst Library

  At the end of 2025, San Francisco established a reparations fund to address harms to the city's Black community, accepting donations from individuals, corporations, and foundations, with potential future budget appropriations.

• Black Lawyers Back Reparations Bill Targeting College Admissions

  — The Sacramento Observer

  AB 7, part of California's "Road to Repair 2025" legislative package, would allow universities to consider admission preferences for descendants of enslaved people—using lineage rather than race as the determining factor.

• Why We Have to Keep Talking About Reparations in 2025

  — Economic Policy Institute

  Despite federal hostility to equity initiatives, reparations work continues at state and local levels, with advocates arguing that addressing racial injustice remains essential to building cross-racial solidarity for broader economic justice.

• KCMO Mayor’s Commission on Reparations Works on Solutions for Systemic Racism — KSHB 41 News
  https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/mayors-commission-on-reparations-works-on-remedies-for-racial-inequities-in-kansas-city-missouri

• Women’s Health Clinic Head Resigns, Citing ‘Racism, White Privilege’ — Winnipeg Free Press
  https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/09/10/womens-health-clinic-head-steps-down-alleges-racism-white-privilege

• Writer Cites Troubling Reality in Salem — Morning Journal / Salem News
  https://www.salemnews.net/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2025/09/writer-cites-troubling-reality-in-salem/

Media and Public Figures

• Analysis: The US Government Seems to Have a Clear Message for White Nationalists

  — CNN

  Federal agencies have posted recruitment materials using phrases and imagery with documented ties to white supremacist subculture, including references to "Which Way Western Man" and other coded messaging that extremism researchers say signals comfort to the far right.

• DHS Used Neo-Nazi Anthem for Recruitment After Fatal Minneapolis ICE Shooting

  — The Intercept

  Days after an ICE agent fatally shot a civilian, the Department of Homeland Security posted a recruitment ad using "We'll Have Our Home Again"—a song popularized in neo-Nazi spaces whose lyrics have appeared in manifestos of white supremacist mass shooters.

• White House Again Posts Coded White Supremacist Message

  — Joe.My" God

  Extremism researchers identify the seventh instance in January 2026 of federal government accounts posting content with ties to white nationalist ideology, including a Greenland-themed cartoon echoing a foundational neo-Nazi text.

• Midwife and Maternal Health Advocate Dr. Janell Green Smith Dies From Childbirth Complications

  — Black America Web

  The death of a maternal health advocate highlights how systemic racism and failures in care disproportionately affect Black women regardless of their professional expertise or socioeconomic status.

• Charlie Kirk Did Not Like Black People — BlackNews.com
  https://blacknews.com/news/charlie-kirk-did-not-like-black-people-called-mlk-awful-george-floyd-scumbag/

• “Because You’re Black”: Jason Whitlock Fires Back at Jemele Hill — Times of India
  https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/nfl/news/because-youre-black-jason-whitlock-fires-back-as-jemele-hill-accuses-charlie-kirk-of-white-supremacy-on-podcast/articleshow/123882818.cms

• Elon Musk Demonstrates Essence of White Supremacy — Daily Kos
  https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/9/2342694/-Elon-Musk-Demonstrates-Essence-Of-White-Supremacy

Politics, Policy, and Global Impact

• Attack on Our Power and Dignity: What Project 2025 Means for Black Communities

  — Thurgood Marshall Institute at LDF

  The Legal Defense Fund's comprehensive report details how Project 2025's proposals would harm Black Americans by transferring housing programs to states with discriminatory histories, ending data collection on racial disparities, and eliminating workplace protections.

• Project 2025 January 14th Update: Heritage Proposes Federal "Marriage Bootcamp"

  — Global Project Against Hate and Extremism

  The Heritage Foundation releases a new policy document seeking to reshape American families according to Christian nationalist views, while the administration rewrites the history of January 6th as "a peaceful stroll."

• Where Apple, Disney, JPMorgan, Target and More Landed on DEI in 2025

  — HR Dive

  Tracking the corporate retreat from diversity, equity, and inclusion commitments throughout 2025, as companies either eliminated programs, rebranded initiatives, or—in some cases like Apple and Disney—pushed back against anti-DEI shareholder proposals.

• Major Companies Reframing, Not Abandoning, DEI: Report

  — ESG Dive

  Analysis finds that while the use of the acronym "DEI" dropped 68% among S&P 500 companies in 2025, most firms are quietly maintaining internal tracking and data collection rather than eliminating programs entirely.

• Are We Nearing the End of DEI? (In the Workplace 2026)

  — Arkansas Business

  The EEOC has shifted focus to investigating companies for allegedly discriminatory DEI programs, signaling major changes ahead for employers as the agency opens investigations into diversity initiatives at major corporations.

• Power, Profit, and Proximity: Why Some Black Americans Align with White Supremacy — Medium
  https://medium.com/the-polis/power-profit-and-proximity-why-some-black-americans-align-with-white-supremacy-5cc52fb0f720

• Why Isn’t Condemnation of White Supremacy Bipartisan Anymore? — Midland Daily News
  https://www.ourmidland.com/opinion/voices/article/isn-t-condemnation-white-supremacy-bipartisan-21036524.php

• Trump’s Anti-Woke Crusade Cuts R50m From South Africa Democracy Group — News24
  https://www.news24.com/southafrica/news/trumps-anti-woke-crusade-sees-sa-democracy-group-lose-r50m-for-articles-on-white-privilege-20250907-0917

Violence and Extremism

• Whistles, Then Gunfire: How the Deadly ICE Shooting Unfolded in Minneapolis

  — CNN

  Detailed reconstruction of the January 7, 2026 fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent, which has sparked nationwide protests and lawsuits from Minnesota authorities against the Trump administration's immigration enforcement tactics.

• January 2026 Intelligence Project Dispatch: Trends and Incidents of the Hard Right

  — Southern Poverty Law Center

  Monthly roundup of far-right activity including Blood Tribe's neo-Nazi march in Arkansas, the controversial "Appeal to Heaven" flag at the Department of Education, and the closing of a Confederate memorabilia store in Georgia.

• Here Are the Names of the Neo-Nazis Who Rallied at a Little Rock Civil Rights Site

  — Arkansas Times

  Police records identify 22 members of the Blood Tribe neo-Nazi group who marched in front of Little Rock Central High School—site of the historic 1957 integration—carrying swastika flags and a banner reading "race mixing is communism."

• An Arkansas Group's Effort to Build a White Ethnostate

  — The Conversation

  Analysis of "Return to the Land," a group establishing "whites only communities" in the Ozark Mountains as part of a broader movement attempting to create white ethnostates through private membership associations.

• Extremist Content Online: Neo-Nazi Groups Note Successes in 2025 and Call for Strengthening Movements in 2026

  — Counter Extremism Project

  Active Club leader Robert Rundo announces plans for the white supremacist movement to expand in 2026 with dedicated gyms, businesses, and private events, while multiple neo-Nazi channels celebrate the Minneapolis ICE shooting.

• Hate Crimes, Explained: Trump's FY 2026 Budget Eliminates Hate Crime Prevention Funding

  — Southern Poverty Law Center

  Deep dive into hate crime trends and policy, noting that the proposed federal budget eliminates nearly $30 million in prevention programs while the U.S. expends "enormous resources" on law enforcement response but "shockingly little" on prevention.

• Colorado School Shooting Suspect Reportedly Expressed neo-Nazi, White Supremacy Views Online — Haaretz
  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025-09-14/ty-article/adl-colorado-school-shooting-suspect-expressed-neo-nazi-white-supremacy-views-online/00000199-4736-dc6e-a59f-cfbe01f80000

• An Arkansas Group’s Effort to Build a White Ethnostate — MSN
  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/an-arkansas-groups-effort-to-build-a-white-ethnostate-inspired-by-white-supremacy/ar-AA1M7XRN

• Flunk Hate: Why Racism Deserves an F, Not an A — Daily Journal
  https://www.dailyjournal.com/article/387405-flunk-hate-why-racism-deserves-an-f-not-an-a

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