Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
The case for Keisha Lance Bottoms for veep. By Christina Cauterucci / Slate
‘Begin Again’ Calls on James Baldwin to Make Sense of Today. By Jennifer Szalai / NYT
Jennifer Hudson Is Note-Perfect As Aretha Franklin In First ‘Respect’ Trailer. By Curtis M. Wong / HuffPost
Colin Kaepernick’s Life Is Being Turned Into A Netflix Series With Ava DuVernay. By Cole Delbyck / HuffPost
Cam Newton plays for Bill Belichick now, and the possibilities are endless. By Adam Kilgore / Wash Post
Trump has America staring down the barrel of a gun. By Leonard Pitts Jr. / Miami Herald
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 6) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – America is facing a reckoning over race, but we’ve seen this before. By Michael A. Fletcher / The Undefeated
‘It Is Time for Reparations.’ By Nikole Hanna-Jones / NYT Magazine
Donald Trump or America? By Leonard Pitts / The Miami Herald
Black Lives Matter Wants to End Police Brutality. History Suggests It Will Go Much Further. By Jon Schwarz / The Intercept
Repair & Revive: Rev. William Barber on Fighting Racism. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
South Carolina congressman Jim Clyburn: ‘If Biden doesn’t win, US democracy will crumble.’ By Daniel Strauss / The Guardian
Census shows white decline, nonwhite majority among youngest Americans. By The Associated Press / NBC News
What Charles Booker’s run tells us about the 2020 election. By Howard Fineman / Wash Post
For Biden VP, Black Democrats are torn between Harris and Warren. By Sahil Kapur / NBC News
How Congress Can Save Black Lives. By Cory Booker and Kamala Harris / Rolling Stone
How racism became the essential tool for maintaining a capitalist order. By Richard D. Wolff / Salon
You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument. By Caroline Randall Williams / NYT
Yes, the Freedmen’s Memorial uses racist imagery. But don’t tear it down. By David W. Blight / Wash Post
Princeton To Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From Public Policy School. By Jason Slotkin / NPR
Georgia governor signs hate crime law following Ahmaud Arbery shooting. By Grace Hauck / USA Today
Why the lopsided House vote in favor of D.C. statehood was so historic. By Karen Tumulty / Wash Post
What PTSD tells us about the history of slavery. By Tyler D. Parry / Wash Post
NASA’s D.C. Headquarters Renamed For Mary W. Jackson, Depicted In ‘Hidden Figures.’ By Curtis M. Wong / HuffPost
The Theater Where Ella Fitzgerald Got Her Start. By Reggie Nadelson / NYT Magazine
Spike Lee’s ‘Rodney King’ to stream on Netflix. By Marianne Garvey / CNN
White identity in America is ideology, not biology. The history of ‘whiteness’ proves it. By Nell Irvin Painter / NBC News
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 2) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Trump has America staring down the barrel of a gun. By Leonard Pitts Jr. / Miami Herald
Trump Is Promising Four More Years of Strife. He can’t run on accomplishments. So he’s running on violence and fear. By William Saletan / Slate
Rayshard Brooks’ Funeral, MLK’s Daughter Gives Powerful Speech. By TMZ
