Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
How the Death Penalty Discriminates. By Robert Davis / The Progressive
Interracial marriages now more common, but not without challenges. By CBS News
Dr. Dre helping bring new school to Southern California. CBS News
The last known slave ship and the community founded by its survivors. By Anderson Cooper / CBS News
Watch a Never-Before-Aired James Baldwin Interview From 1979. By Adrienne Westenfeld / Esquire
Lin-Manuel Miranda apologizes for lack of Afro-Latino representation in ‘In the Heights.’ By Doha Madani / NBC News
Oprah’s latest Book Club pick, ‘The Sweetness of Water,’ is a miraculous debut. By Ron Charles / Wash Post
Hollywood’s treatment of Latinos is an open wound. Healing it requires a reckoning. By Daniel Hernandez / LA Times and Yahoo Sports
In Her New Memoir, Ursula M. Burns Recounts Blazing a Trail to the Top of Xerox. By Dwight Garner / NYT
Bobby Rush Lived the Blues. Six Decades On, He’s Still Playing Them. By Brett Anderson / NYT
Kevin Durant puts in historic performance as Brooklyn Nets beat Milwaukee Bucks. Ben Morse / CNN
Baseball Reference Adds Negro Leagues Statistics, Rewriting Its Record Book. By James Wagner / NYT
The Demand of Freedom. The United States’ first civil rights movement. By Kellie Carter Jackson / The Nation
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Why Juneteenth Matters. It was black Americans who delivered on Lincoln’s promise of “a new birth of freedom.” By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
The Myth of a Majority-Minority America. By Richard Alba, Morris Levy, and Dowell Myers / The Atlantic
The White Right to Bear Arms. A review of “The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America.” By Emilo Leanza / The Progressive
Attorney general announces actions to protect voting rights. By Clare Hymes and Grace Segers / CBS News
Family of Alton Sterling reaches $4.5 million settlement with Baton Rouge, years after police shooting. By Derek Hawkins / Wash Post
Pulitzer Board Recognizes Darnella Frazier For Recording George Floyd’s Murder. By Joe Hernandez / NPR
The USDA has discriminated against Black farmers for years. Can this legislation bring about change? By Ashlie D. Stevens / Salon
How Black pastors under 40 are trying to get their peers back into the pews. By Randi Richardson / NBC News
There’s a cure for the root cause of anti-Semitic attacks. By Michael Igel / CNN
Morgan Freeman, professor donate $1 million to police reform center. By AP and USA Today
Meet the astronauts of color before NASA’s Artemis team. By Kristen Rogers / CNN
My grandparents were stolen from their families as children. We must learn about this history. By Deb Haaland / Wash Post
Descendants of Robert E. Lee and enslaved people unite for change. By CBS News
