Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 16) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – How Black Lives Matter Could Reshape the 2020 Elections. By Charlotte Alter / Time
Make Liberalism Great Again. By M. Steven Fish, Neil A. Abrams and Laila M. Aghaie / Slate
Trump’s White Version of History. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Nine out of 10 Americans say racism and police brutality are problems, poll finds. By David Smith / The Guardian
Lindsey Graham’s Democratic Opponent Is Raking in an Absurd Amount of Campaign Cash. By Kara Voght / Mother Jones
Civil rights leaders are still fed up with Facebook over hate speech. By Shirin Ghaffary / Vox
Young Black voters say they aren’t enthusiastic about a Joe Biden presidency. By Rebecca Morin / USA Today
Why U.S. Schools Are Still Segregated — And One Idea To Help Change That. By Alisa Chang and Jonaki Mehta / NPR
What to read, listen to and watch to learn about institutional racism. By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas / PBS
University Of California Will Have Its First Black President. By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost
Trump Can’t Turn Bubba Wallace Into Colin Kaepernick. By Will Leitch / New York Mag
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes agrees to historic $500 million deal. By Doha Madani / NBC News
Isiah Thomas Discusses His Journey From NBA Champion To Champagne To Cannabis. By Javier Hasse / Forbes
Europe in 1989, When the Berlin Wall Fell, America in 2020, and the Death of the Lost Cause. By David W. Blight / The New Yorker
America is facing a reckoning over race, but we’ve seen this before. By Michael A. Fletcher / The Undefeated
America’s Enduring Caste System. By Isabel Wilkerson / NYT
Donald Trump is the 21st-century Jefferson Davis: History will judge him — and us. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Biden and Trump deliver very different messages on July 4th. By Daniel Politi / Slate
The Case for Kamala Harris. By Susan Matthews / Slate
To the World, We’re Now America the Racist and Pitiful. By Robin Wright / The New Yorker
Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History. By Larry Buchanan, Quoctrung Bui and Jugal K. Patel / NYT
What if we treated Confederate symbols the way we treated the defeated Nazis? By John Semley / The Guardian
Image of Thomas Jefferson alongside Black descendant holds ‘a mirror’ to America. By Sharmar Walters and Maia Davis / NBC News
Racist, brutal past or Hispanic history? Latinos clash over Spanish colonial statues. By Gwen Aviles / NBC News
Where Do Black Journalists Go From Here? By Char Adams / New Republic
New doc “John Lewis: Good Trouble” gives nuance to a relentless freedom fighter. By Pricilla Ward / Salon
Crisis in the Navajo Nation: Voter suppression, racism and a deadly pandemic. By David Daley / Salon
The reckoning over representation: Black hollywood speaks out, but is the industry listening? By Variety / NBC News
Washington Redskins To Review Racist Team Name. By Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost
It’s time for black labor in college sports to demand new ground rules. By Kevin B. Blackstone / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 13) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – “Do You Think You’re Not Involved?” The Racial Reckoning of “Blood at the Root.” By Casey Cep / The New Yorker