Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 22) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield gives powerful speech at U.N.: “I know the ugly face of racism.” By Pamela Falk / CBS News
Poll: Approval of Biden’s handling of coronavirus ticks up to 65 percent. By Gabriela Schulte / The Hill
Joy Reid’s truth-telling: The hidden wages of white supremacy and the N-word. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Don Lemon loses it on Sen. Tim Scott for ‘woke supremacy’ comment: ‘What are you doing?’ Yahoo News
What the Rest of America Can Learn From My Experience Being Black in Trumpland. By Issac J. Bailey / Politico
Joe Manchin and Stacey Abrams Can Meet on Common Ground. By Ezra Klein / NYT
Minneapolis will pay record $27 million settlement to George Floyd’s family. By Daniel Politi / Slate
Breonna Taylor Was Slain One Year Ago Today. The Tragic Police Raids Continue. By Samantha Michaels / Mother Jones
Biden condemns ‘vicious’ hate crimes against Asian-Americans. By Madeleine Ngo / NYT
Black Americans and women continue to face discrimination in skilled trades. By Paul Solman and Lee Koromvokis / NPR
Redlining, Predatory Inclusion, and Housing Segregation. By Paige Glotzer / AAIHS
Former prosecutors, judges join push for new trial in Alabama death row case. By Mark Berman / Wash Post
Why Black Women Are Rejecting Hospitals in Search of Better Births. By Alice Proujansky / NYT
The Officers Danced at a Black Lives Matter Rally. Then They Stormed the Capitol. By Sabrina Tavernise / NYT
USDA Secretary Vilsack Hopes To Boost Number Of Black Farmers. By Michel Martin and James Doubek / NPR
An Honest History of Texas Begins and Ends With White Supremacy. By Cassey Michel / The New Republic
A push to save landmarks of the ‘Great Migration’ — and better understand today’s racial inequities. By Mark Guarino / Wash Post
The lynching that Black Chattanooga never forgot takes center stage downtown. By Chris Moody / Wash Post
The Forgotten History of America’s Worst Racial Massacre. By Nan Elizabeth Woodruff / NYT
Army continues to honor Confederate unit histories, even as base names draw scrutiny. By Alex Horton / Wash Post
2021 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History. By AAIHS Editors
Genre-busting musician Michael Kiwanuka on setting himself apart – CBS News
How Can Blackness Construct America? By Michael Kimmelman /NYT
Spike Lee Predicts the Future. By Kara Swisher / NYT
Marvin Hagler helped boxing soar in the 1980s, and nothing topped his epic TKO of Thomas Hearns. By Gene Wang / Wash Post
University of Texas “Eyes of Texas” controversy: The Constitution and Supreme Court have a say. By Tyler Valeska / Slate
J.G. Taylor Spink’s racist baseball legacy lasted years but truth won. By Chris Lamb / USA Today
Harry Breaks Free From the Racial Contract—and Pays the Price. By Kali Holloway / The Nation
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Inside the Biden Administration’s Battle Against Extremism. By Vera Bergengruen and W.J. Hennigan / Time
Stacey Abrams Has a Plan to Dismantle the Filibuster and Protect Voting Rights. By Ari Berman / Mother Jones
