Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Race Inquiry Digest (Sep 3) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Inevitable Whitelash Against Racial Justice Has Started. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
St. Louis Couple Is Trump’s Pitch to the Scared Suburbs. By Emma Green / The Atlantic
The Shooting of Jacob Blake Is a Wake-Up Call. By David A. Graham / The Atlantic
LeBron James says Black community ‘terrified’ of police conduct. By Dave McMenamin / ESPN
GOP sees unrest in cities providing an opening with white voters. By David Lauter / LA Times
A Look At The Racial Disparities In How Some Georgia Counties Are Rejecting Mail Ballots. By Tierney Sneed / TPM
Nikki Haley tried to argue the U.S. isn’t racist — but she just proved the opposite point. By Cody Fenwick / Salon
Why they hate her: Kamala Harris, Black bodies and the white right. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
How Federal Housing Programs Failed Black America. By Marcia Chartelain / The Nation
What the 19th Amendment Meant for Black Women. By Martha S. Jones / Politico
‘Emmett Till Is Anne Frank To Black America.’ By Brianne Garrett / Forbes
There’s a movement to get more schools to teach Black history and it’s being led by teens. By Scottie Andrew / CNN
At Arlington House, a push to remove Robert E. Lee’s name from the home he once occupied. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
‘Make Farmers Black Again’: Fighting Discrimination To Own Farmland. By Julian Forstadt / NPR
Black Workers Are More Likely to Be Unemployed but Less Likely to Get Unemployment Benefits. By Ava Kofman and Hannah Fresques / Propublica
The NBA Is White Conservatives’ Favorite New Target for Racial Dog-whistling. By John Wilmes / New Republic
Isabel Wilkerson, the author of “Caste,” speaks. An interview by Ezra Klein / Vox
Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 31) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The NBA Wildcat Strike Is How a Revolution Starts. By Lester Spence / Mother Jones
Anatomy of a Photograph: Authoritarianism in America. By Errol Morris / The Atlantic
At The DNC, Democrats Embraced The Civil Rights Movement To Explain Their Place In The Present. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
How to Dismantle White Supremacy. By Barbara Smith / The Nation
Wilkerson’s Caste examines quests to maintain power. By Leonard Pitts Jr / Miami Herald
Cornel West: Is America ‘even capable of treating the masses of Black people with decency and dignity’? By KK Ottesen / Wash Post
What is implicit bias? The invisible racism that hurts Black women at the doctor’s office. By Vidya Rao / Today
Civil rights protest, political demonstrations and fireworks: D.C. to host thousands amid coronavirus pandemic. By Marissa J. Lang / Wash Post
To narrow racial and economic disparities, Atlanta Fed chief Raphael Bostic is rethinking what the Fed’s mandate means. By Rachel Siegel / Wash Post
The Conservative Misdirection of the Affirmative Action Debate. By J. C. Pan / New Republic
Protestors Could Lose Voting Rights Under New Tennessee Law. By Ishena Robinson / The Root
Amid Debates About Memorials, Advocates Push To Remember Atlanta’s Forced Laborers. By Molly Samuel / NPR
The new Air Force chief wasn’t sure how to address George Floyd’s killing. Then he talked to his son. By Dan Lamothe / Wash Post
