Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
A Quiet Demonstration and a Long Shadow. By Jeré Longman / NYT
Why Juneteenth Matters. It was black Americans who delivered on Lincoln’s promise of “a new birth of freedom.” By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Harlem Cultural Festival footage is getting wider recognition in the new ‘Summer of Soul’ documentary. By Farrell Evans / The Undefeated
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 24) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Have We Entered America’s Third Era of Reconstruction? By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharris / The Nation The racist and violent backlash to Reconstruction was…
Senate passes bill to make Juneteenth, day commemorating the end of slavery, a federal holiday. By Mike DeBonis and Felicia Sonmez / Wash Post
This is the Republicans’ back-up plan in case they can’t suppress enough votes. by Fred Hiatt / Wash Post
Former Harvard psychiatrist Lance Dodes: Trump’s psychosis is still an “enormous danger.” By Chauncey Devega / Salon
White House Unveils Strategy to Combat Domestic Extremism. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs / NYT
We should rethink how we think about Vice President Harris. Perry Bacon Jr. / Wash Post
Biden nominated as many minority women to be judges in four months as Trump had confirmed in four years. By Adrian Blanco / Wash Post
Biden pressed to go ‘big and bold’ in rooting out housing discrimination. By Katy O’Donnell / Politico
SCOTUS Justices Consider Harvard Affirmative Action Case. By Mark Sherman / HuffPost
Southern Baptist Convention’s focus on mission recalls history of promoting white dominance. By Janet Kragt Bakker / The Conversation
Wrongly denied funding, Black colleges are fighting back. By Kristopher J. Brooks / CBS News
How the Death Penalty Discriminates. By Robert Davis / The Progressive
Interracial marriages now more common, but not without challenges. By CBS News
Dr. Dre helping bring new school to Southern California. CBS News
The last known slave ship and the community founded by its survivors. By Anderson Cooper / CBS News
Watch a Never-Before-Aired James Baldwin Interview From 1979. By Adrienne Westenfeld / Esquire
Lin-Manuel Miranda apologizes for lack of Afro-Latino representation in ‘In the Heights.’ By Doha Madani / NBC News
Oprah’s latest Book Club pick, ‘The Sweetness of Water,’ is a miraculous debut. By Ron Charles / Wash Post
Hollywood’s treatment of Latinos is an open wound. Healing it requires a reckoning. By Daniel Hernandez / LA Times and Yahoo Sports
In Her New Memoir, Ursula M. Burns Recounts Blazing a Trail to the Top of Xerox. By Dwight Garner / NYT
Bobby Rush Lived the Blues. Six Decades On, He’s Still Playing Them. By Brett Anderson / NYT
Kevin Durant puts in historic performance as Brooklyn Nets beat Milwaukee Bucks. Ben Morse / CNN
Baseball Reference Adds Negro Leagues Statistics, Rewriting Its Record Book. By James Wagner / NYT
The Demand of Freedom. The United States’ first civil rights movement. By Kellie Carter Jackson / The Nation
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Why Juneteenth Matters. It was black Americans who delivered on Lincoln’s promise of “a new birth of freedom.” By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
The Myth of a Majority-Minority America. By Richard Alba, Morris Levy, and Dowell Myers / The Atlantic
The White Right to Bear Arms. A review of “The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America.” By Emilo Leanza / The Progressive
