It's Tuesday, June 10th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadaday, the show that is paying tribute

to the Great Sly Stone, who passed away Monday at the age of 82. To quote Questlove, who directed a

recent documentary about the music luminary, he dared to be simple in the most complex ways,

using childlike joy, wordless cries, and nursery rhyme cadences to express

adult truths. His work looked straight at the brightest and darkest parts of life and demanded

we do the same. On today's show, National Institutes of Health Researchers rebuke the Trump

administration in a public letter,

and why King conspiracy theorist Alex Jones supports a private company mining your data for the federal government to use. But let's start by talking about race. In 2025, that's become a weird thing to do,

and you've noticed it, right? How the companies and personalities who were happy to talk about

race and discrimination five years ago, after the murders of George Floyd, Ahmed Arbery, and

Brianna Taylor, would suddenly rather do literally almost anything else. Funny how that works. For their

part, the Trump administration has decided that diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts,

both in government

and in the private sector, are themselves a form of discrimination. And last week, the Supreme

Court ruled unanimously that members of majority groups can also experience discrimination,

in a case in which a straight woman argued that she'd been passed over for a job because

of her sexual orientation. Liberal justice, Katanji Brown Jackson,

who wrote the majority opinion, stated that how courts should understand federal discrimination

laws shouldn't vary, quote, based on whether or not the plaintiff is a member of a majority

group. But what if the entire frame of discrimination is the wrong one? That's the argument

Brando Simeo Stary is making in his new

book, Their Accomplices War Robes, How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the bottom of a

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