Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Minneapolis Police Killed Amir Locke in a No-Knock Raid—After the City Promised to Ban Them. By Eamon Whalen / Mother Jones
Ahmaud Arbery’s killers headed to federal trial after withdrawing guilty pleas on hate crime charge. By David K. Li / NBC News
George Floyd and the ‘duty to intervene.’ By Marten Powers / Wash Post Podcast
Who Is Pamela Moses? Black Woman Sentenced to Prison for Trying To Vote. By Isabel Van Brugen / Newsweek
Latinas are well represented in the labor force. In Congress, not so much. By Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News
Shelly Lowe confirmed as chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities. By Peggy McGlone / Wash Post
VMI will change honor system that expels Black cadets at disproportionate rates. By Ian Shapira / Wash Post
MLK’s Forgotten Call for Economic Justice. By Martin Luther King Jr. / The Nation
The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself. David Brooks / NYT
Connect! Unite! Act! Thinking about a moral budget. By Christopher Reeves / Daily Kos
Ice Cube’s ‘Good Day’ taught me how to pray the Examen. by Shemaiah Gonzalez / NCR
Reject racism to ‘live the way’ Creator intended us to live, cardinal says. By Richard Szczepanowski / NCR
The True Legacy of Lynching Lies in How We Remember the Victims. By Clint Smith / The Atlantic
Did You Study the Slave Trade in School or Were You Out That Day. By A.E. Rooks / The Daily Beast
Black History Month founder showed how schools should teach about race. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
In Maryland, a segregated school is one of many in the country to be preserved. By Joseph Williams / Wash Post
First Black University of Alabama student to share a building name with a Klan Leader. By AP and NPR
Malcolm X’s daughter calls for federal inquiry into his murder. By Deena Zaru and Stephanie Wash / ABC News
How Trayvon Martin’s life and death inspired a generation to fight for justice. By Giselle Rhoden and Kaanita Iyer / CNN
Atlanta’s unexpected civil rights museum: Its airport. By Larry Bleiberg / Wash Post
J Dilla Was a Revered Rap Producer. A New Book Deepens His Legacy. By Eric Ducker / NYT
‘All He’s Looking for Is a Sincere Shot.’ By Jeré Longman and Jenny Vrentas / NYT
Where are the people of color at the Winter Olympics? By Chris Bumbaca / USA Today
Monumental’s Sashi Brown stepping down to become Baltimore Ravens president. By Kareem Copeland / Wash Post
Whoopi Goldberg’s baffling claim forced many to ask tough questions about race and identity in the US. By Brandon Tensley / CNN
Race Inquiry Digest (Feb 10) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Donald Trump’s fantasies of racial violence reflect an all-too-real history. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
When All-White Was All Right. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Trump escalates racist rhetoric at recent rallies and plays on white grievance. By Domenico Montanaro / NPR
Glenn Youngkin’s No-Guilt History of Virginia for Fragile White People. By Dana Milbank / Wash Post
Mitch McConnell’s moment of truth: For many whites, Black people aren’t real “Americans.” By Chauncey Devega / Salon
