Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 12) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured How the White Press Wrote Off Black America. By Brent Staples / NYT
Samuel Alito and His Fellow Conservative Supreme Court Justices Deal a Damaging Blow to Voting Rights. By Matt Ford / The New Republic
Schools Must Teach About Racism. By Glenn Sacks / The Progressive
Rally calls on defending voter rights and DC statehood. By Donna M. Owens / NBC News
The empire strikes back: Mainstream Dems try to crush the left in Buffalo and Cleveland. By Norman Solomon / Salon
Progressive Charles Booker Is Running For Senate Against Rand Paul In Kentucky. By Travis Waldron / HuffPost
Clerkships remain largely white. Can law students of color shake up the status quo? By Erik Ortiz / NBC News
Latinos who supported Trump were more likely to lack a college education. By Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News
Baltimore is ‘ahead of the game’ with police reform, but there’s still much work to be done. By Emma Tucker / CNN
NAACP says end to police violence overdue after Arkansas teen killed by deputy. By Mills Hayes / KATV
After Contentious Debate, UNC Grants Tenure To Nikole Hannah-Jones. By David Folkenflik / NPR
Native American women face an epidemic of violence. A legal loophole prevents prosecutions. By Graham Lee Brewer / NBC News
A federal ban on evictions is lifting this month. It’s a looming disaster for women of color. By Anne Branigin / The Lily
Bill Cosby’s crimes illuminate the fault lines between generations of Black women. By Lonnae O’Neal / The Undefeated
For me and the FAMU family, president Frederick Humphries was the epitome of excellence. By Ken Makin / The Undefeated
Inside the Bill Clinton–Vernon Jordan Bromance. By Gary Ginsberg / Vanity Fair
While Americans celebrated ‘Independence Day,’ Black musicians fled the U.S.—to find freedom abroad. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Little Walter’s Song That Changed Everything for the Blues. By Bobby Rush / The Daily Beast
The newest comic book superhero: An enslaved man turned immortal. By Theresa Vargas / Wash Post
How Indian Americans Came to Love the Spelling Bee. By Anna P. Kambhampaty / NYT
‘In The Heights’: Can one film bring joy — and spark a Latino conversation on race? By Nicole Acevedo / NBC News
Wimbledon’s last Black men’s finalist was in 1996. What will it take for another? By Liz Clarke / Wash Post
California Supreme Court’s 1st gay justice left the NFL to pursue a law career. By Julie Compton / NBC News
Why We Hold Olympic Athletes to Such Ridiculous and Cruel Standards. By Lindsay Crouse / NYT
Racism broke him, but Black cycling superstar Major Taylor is getting his moment. By Gregg Doyel / USA Today
What the NCAA Owes to the Athletes It Punished. By Jemele Hill / The Atlantic
