Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
What Biden’s cabinet picks really say about diversity. By Paul Begala / CNN
More US churches commit to racism-linked reparations. By David Crary / ABC News
The Retirement Crisis Facing Black Americans. By Rodney Brooks / US News
For Air Force Leader, Making Video On Racism He’s Faced Was ‘The Right Thing To Do.’ By Rachel Martin / NPR
The Senseless Killing of Brandon Bernard. Bridget Read / MSN News
Minneapolis Shifts $8 Million In Police Funding, Keeps Force At Current Level. By Avie Schneider / NPR
Descendants of enslaved Blacks explore Virginia history. By Susan Svrluga / Wash Post
The Elusive Promise of the Underground Railroad. By Eric Herschthal / The New Republic
The founder of Johns Hopkins owned enslaved people. Our university must face a reckoning. By Martha S. Jones / Wash Post
In viral anti-racism PSA, “Steven Universe” character Pearl challenges our whitewashed history. By Ashlie Stevens / Salon
“40 Years a Prisoner” confronts the police we’re supposed to trust “telling bold-faced lies.” By D. Watkins / Salon
In a year of Black Death, the movies showed us Black Life. By Ann Hornaday / Wash Post
Why Is Publishing So White? By Richard Jean So / NYT
Charley Pride, Trailblazing Country Music Star, Dies At 86. By Mark Kennedy / HuffPost
Deion Sanders is inspiring hope at Jackson State. But what happened at Prime Prep? By Candace Buckner / Wash Post
How will fans feel years after dropping the Redskins nickname? Miami (Ohio) provides a clue. By Chuck Culpepper / Wash Post
Rams players donate $750,000 to 25 nonprofits focused on social justice. By Gary Klein / LA Times
The Spiritual Tradition of Black Folk Finds Expression in the Candidacy of Raphael Warnock. By Otis Moss III / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (Dec 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured My church will replace our Black Lives Matter sign. Will America replace its racist myth? By William H. Lamar IV / Wash Post
Republicans want to steal this election for Trump — they just don’t know how. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Can Biden Break the Back of the White Supremacist Movement? By Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast
Biden Plans to Tap Lloyd Austin, Former Iraq Commander, as Defense Secretary. By Helene Cooper, Jonathan Martin and Eric Schmitt / NYT
Biden Plans To Tap Rep. Marcia Fudge As Housing Secretary, Tom Vilsack For USDA. By Franco Ordonez / NPR
Civil rights groups lay out priorities for Biden’s Justice Department. By Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico
Georgia’s Senate Race Is About White Identity Politics. By Michael Harriot / The Root
Harrison seen as front-runner to take over DNC at crucial moment. By Jonathan Easley / The Hill
Rashida Jones named next president of MSNBC. By Ahiza Garcia-Hodge / NBC News
President of Morehouse School of Medicine has life-and-death message for Black people about the coronavirus vaccine. By Lonnae O’Neal / The Undefeated
How remote learning is making educational inequities worse. By Hernan Galperin and Stephen Aguilar / The Conversation
Latinos get small slice of funding pie for minority colleges and universities. By Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News
