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by dghf 3922 days ago
I'm not 100% sure, but I believe formal American English is meant to be rigorous in treating organisations as singular rather than plural. Hence if the title was meant to refer to the present, it should have read "How the FBI Pre-reads African American Writing".

This is in distinction to British English, where it's often a matter of house style, or even dependent on context.