Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 7) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Democracy Crisis: Could This Be Joe Biden’s Big Mistake? By David Corn / Mother Jones
How voter suppression laws hurt White people. By John Blake / CNN
The World Lost a Great Philosopher This Week. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
When a White-majority neighborhood wants to divorce its Black city. By Brandon Tensley / CNN
Asian American lawmakers urge DOJ to give updates about hate crimes law. By Cynthia Silva / NBC News
Pennsylvania school district reverses ban on books by authors of color after students fought back. By Mirna Alsharif and Liam Reilly / CNN
Republicans prove they never really wanted police reform. They’re on the wrong side of history. By Eugene Robinson / Wash Post
UN Durban meeting on race skipped by US, UK and others. By Caitlin Hu / CNN
Rep. Karen Bass plans to announce run for mayor of Los Angeles. By Sean Sullivan and Tyler Pager / Wash Post
These families of missing Black people are frustrated with the lack of response to their cases. By Nicquel Terry Ellis / CNN
Blackness and Latinidad are not mutually exclusive. Here’s what it means to be Afro-Latino in America. By Amir Vera and Alexander Pineda / CNN
What slavery reparations from the federal government could look like. By P. R. Lockhart / NBC News
Louisiana state trooper charged in pummeling of Black man. By Jake Bleiberg and Jim Mustian / AP and Wash Post
In 1865, thousands of Black South Carolinians signed a 54-foot-long freedom petition. By Michael E. Ruane / Wash Post
Civil rights lessons from 1961 influence 2021. The fight is not over. By Nicole Carroll / USA Today
The Betrayal of Historically Black Colleges. By Katherine Mangan / The Chronicle of Higher Education
Monument honoring abolition of slavery unveiled in Virginia. By Christopher Brito / CBS News
Remembering Virginia’s ‘Forgotten 14.’ By A. Donald McEachin / Wash Post
National Cathedral replacing Confederate glass with racial justice imagery. By LI Cohen / CBS News
Historic Black cemetery buried below parking lot at center of legal dispute. By Erik Ortiz / NBC News
Bringing Black History to Life in the Great Outdoors. By James Edward Mills / NYT
The Latino family of Sylvia Mendez were pivotal in the desegregation fight. By Raul A. Reyes / NBC News
Woodie King Jr. finally gets a Tony Award for bringing color to the stage. By Jeremy Gerard / The Undefeated
Melvin Van Peebles wrote the do-it-yourself playbook for Black filmmakers. By Will Haygood / Wash Post
Metropolitan Opera season to open with first opera by Black composer. By AP and NBC News
Michael K. Williams died of accidental overdose, medical examiner says. By Sophie Reardon and Victoria Albert / CBS News
