Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Charles Conwell Killed in the Ring. Can He Ever Return to Boxing. By Joseph Stern / The Atlantic
Baseball Gets Another Chance to Honor a Legend. By Tyler Kepner / NYT
From ‘Fear of a Black Planet’ to ‘Fear of a Black Universe.’ By C. Brandon Ogbunu / The Undefeated
Race Inquiry Digest (Nov 25) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Republican authoritarianism is here to stay. By Brian Klaas / Wash Post
“Critical race theory” is a fairytale — but America’s monsters are real. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
“It All Burns”: Cornell Belcher on What Happens if the GOP Takes the House. By Michael Tomasky / TNR
White Supremacy on Trial: From Rittenhouse in Kenosha to Killers of Ahmaud Arbery, Will They Go Free? By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
As one of the first White kids in a Black school, I learned not to fear history. By Woody Holton / Wash Post
The Senate Cannot Be Reformed—It Can Only Be Abolished. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
Cherfilus-McCormick apparent winner in Florida Democratic primary for Hastings’ seat. By David Kihara / Politico
A bill to study reparations for slavery had momentum in Congress, but still no vote. By Juana Summers / NPR
Julius Jones Is Still At Risk Of Execution Despite A Parole Board Twice Suggesting He May Be Innocent. By Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost
Black Farmworkers Say They Lost Jobs to Foreigners Who Were Paid More. By Miriam Jordan / NYT
Asian youth facing racism in Mississippi Delta say it’s time to speak out. By Maxine Hughes / CBS News
“Band-Aid on a Bullet Wound:” Flint Locals Seethe Over $626 Million Water Settlement. By Gloria Oladipo / Mother Jones
Biden made huge promises to HBCUs. Can he sell its students on compromise? By Eugene Daniels / Politico
Inequalities on the Digital Campus. By Alice Quach and Victor Tan Chen / Dissent
Mapping Black Antiquity. By Sarah Derbew / AAIHS
How an all-Black, female battalion helped boost the morale of troops in Europe in WWII. By Eleanor Watson / CBS News
Police use similar tactics from 1960s protests in 2020 demonstrations. By N’dea Yancey-Bragg / USA Today
Plessy, ‘separate but equal’ case namesake, recommended for pardon. By AP and NPR
Melanie Charles knows the impact Black women have had on jazz. By Shannon J. Effinger / Wash Post
Hip-hop’s love-hate relationship with education. By Nolan Jones / The Conversation
Passing Netflix movie: How the adaptation differs from Nella Larsen’s classic book. By Carla Kaplan / Slate
We all thought that he would be the one.’ By Michael Lee / Wash Post
Ahmaud Arbery’s old football team turned angst into love — and a perfect season. By Elliott C. McLaughlin / CNN
What Aaron Rodgers Should See: Covid Suffering in a Wisconsin E.R. By Kurt Streeter / NYT
Olympic gold medalist Sunisa Lee says she was pepper sprayed in racist attack. By Meryl Kornfield / Wash Post
Menace Enters the Republican Mainstream. By Lisa Lerer and Astead W. Herndon / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Nov 18-22) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured From ‘Fear of a Black Planet’ to ‘Fear of a Black Universe.’ By C. Brandon Ogbunu / The Undefeated
