Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Our democracy faced a near-death experience. Here’s how to revive it. By Stacey Abrams / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (Feb 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Way Out of America’s Zero-Sum Thinking on Race and Wealth. By Heather C. McGee / NYT
Trump Trial Also A Referendum On Authoritarianism In America. By S.V. Date / HuffPost
Republicans advance more than 100 bills that would restrict voting in wake of Trump’s defeat. By Jane O. Timm / NBC News
How Democrats Found Thousands Of New Voters And Flipped Georgia’s Senate Seats. By Emma Hurt / NPR
How Biden could help narrow the racial wealth gap with just one appointment. By Helaine Olen / Wash Post
It will take more than the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act to fix our broken system. By John Rappaport and Ben Grunwald / Wash Post
In Biden administration reversal, Justice Dept. drops discrimination suit against Yale. By Pete Williams / NBC News
Latino-owned businesses are seeing record growth. Big banks are still not funding them. By Brandon Gomez / NBC News
The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Billionaire Arthur Hayes. By Adam Ciralsky / Vanity Fair
Black Doctors’ COVID Burden: Patients’ Social Ills and Workplace Bigotry | Healthiest Communities Health News. By Joseph P. Williams / U.S. News
Atlanta Falcons owner donating $17M to civil rights museum. By Associate Press and ABC News
How racial diversity can help the FBI solve its “privilege naiveté” problem. By Iveta Cherneva / Salon
How ‘Uncle Tom’ still impacts racial politics. By Cheryl Thompson / The Conversation
The Plan to Build a Capital for Black Capitalism. By Kelefa Sanneh / New Yorker
How a Three-Word Phrase Sabotaged Black Voting Rights, and How They Can Be Reconstructed. By Pema levy / Mother Jones
When Gandhi Introduced America’s Civil Rights Leaders to Nonviolence. By Peter Eisenstadt / The Daily Beast
2 Confederate statues were removed in Georgia within 3 days. By Hollie Silverman and Melissa Alonso / CNN
Black music is Black history: Our spirituals. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
What It Means to Be Black in America. Six short films for Black History Month. By NYT
Amanda Gorman Interviewed by Michelle Obama / Time
How Black history and culture have influenced American cuisine. By Maya Eaglin / NBC News
Author James McBride asks us to peer behind ‘the boarded-up windows of Black America.’ By Betty Winston Bayé / Wash Post
Lack Of Diversity Mars Golden Globe TV Nominations. By Eric Deggans / NPR
Morgan Wallen and country music’s race issue is no surprise. By Lisa Respers France / CNN
Walter Mosley’s new Easy Rawlins book is a masterful mix of mystery and social commentary. By Maureen Corrigan / Wash Post
Malcolm & Marie movie review & film summary. By Roger Ebert
Tony Dungy roundtable on lack of Black NFL head coaches a must-watch. By Mike Freeman / USA Today
Black QBs making history in real time. By Martenzie Johnson / The Undefeated
Dianne Durham, first Black US women’s gymnastics champion, dies. By The Associated Press and NBC News
