Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Jaime Harrison is Biden’s pick for Democratic National Committee chair. By Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News
How Stacey Abrams has been mobilizing Asian Americans for years. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
Black Americans are getting vaccinated at lower rates than white Americans. By Hannah Recht and Lauren Weber / NBC News
The Coronavirus Is Erasing Minority Women from the Workforce. By Diane Coyle / NYT
Tom Vilsack’s nomination as agriculture secretary reopens old wounds for Black farmers. By Laura Reiley / Wash Post
Lincoln’s first inauguration met with threats of kidnapping, killing and militias. By Michael E. Ruane / Wash Post
Virginia holiday commemorating Confederate generals won’t be celebrated in 2021, for the first time in over 100 years. By Li Cohen / CBS News
Reconstruction lessons for Trump: Dealing with Confederate treason was more complicated than you’d think. By Rebecca Onion / Slate
How Martin Luther King Jr.’s Imprisonment Changed American Politics Forever. By Raymond Arsenault / NYT
Caste Does Not Explain Race. By Charisse Burden-Stelly / Boston Review
What happened after a boxer, a revolutionary, a singer and a football star met in a 1960s hotel room. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
World’s greatest athlete’ Jim Thorpe was wronged by bigotry. The IOC must correct the record. By Anita DeFrantz / Wash Post
Lawsuit by HBCU athletes fights what it calls NCAA’s systemic racism. By Derrick Z. Jackson / The Undefeated
Joe Biden’s Looming War on White Supremacy. By Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic
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Featured Joe Biden delivers one of the best inaugural addresses in memory. By Jennifer Rubin / Wash Post
They came for blood: Trump’s terror mob were there to kill Pence, Pelosi, someone. By David Cay Johnston / Salon
America the undead: Trump’s mob attacked a democracy already weakened by his war on reality. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Fight Trump Like a Terrorist Leader, National Security Experts Say. By Mark Follman / Mother Jones
The military has a hate group problem. But it doesn’t know how bad it’s gotten. By Bryan Bender / Politico
Ibram X. Kendi on why white America is still shocked by white supremacy after the Capitol insurrection. By Fabiola Cineas / Vox
The Bitter Fruits of Trump’s White-Power Presidency. By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor / The New Yorker
The Bogusness of Anti-Impeachment Republicans. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Georgia election: high Black voter turnout was due to years of activist efforts. By Sam Levine / The Guardian
Kamala Harris gains prominent new role thanks to Democrats’ Senate majority. By Christopher Cadelago / Politico
Eddie Lee Howard: A Black man who wrongfully served 26 years on death row in the killing of a White woman is now free. By Leah Asmelash / CNN
Biden Picks Dr. Nunez-Smith to Lead Health Equity Task Force. By Roni Caryn Rabin / NYT
154,000 Black Women Left The Workforce In December Alone. By Emily Peck / HuffPost
McGuire, Wall Street Favorite, Raises $5 Million and Jolts Mayor’s Race. By Jeffery C. Mays / NYT
The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy. By Vanessa Williamson / Dissent
Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document? By Gordon S. Wood / NYT
