Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Black-White Divide Grows Starker As More Coronavirus Data Emerges. By Kat Stafford, Meghan Hoyer and Aaron Morrison / HuffPost
Who will Trump sacrifice to “reopen America”? That means black bodies. By Sophia Tesfaye / Salon
As more black Americans die from coronavirus, community leaders are taking action. By Janell Ross / NBC News
Black scientists hope to begin testing antiviral drug for coronavirus in two weeks. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Breaking the Grip of White Grievance. By John A. Farrell / The New Republic
Trump and His Allies Are Worried About More Than November. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
The Coronavirus Is Changing How Americans View One Another. By Alexander W. Cappelen, Ranveig Falch, Erik O. Sorensen, Bertil Tungodden and Gus Wezerek / NYT
COVID-19 Protesters Just Like Rosa Parks, Says White House Adviser Stephen Moore. By Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost
Tucker Carlson: “Radical expansion” of voting by mail championed by Obama would “destroy” democracy. By Matthew Rozsa / Salon
Covid-19 took Flint’s first black superintendent, whose work empowered minority students. By Michael Brice-Saddler / Wash Post
Bubba Wallace, NASCAR’s only African American driver, talks to Kyle Larson about racial slur. By Michael Errigo / Wash Post
Michael Jordan’s furious desire to conquer all still burns decades later. By Aaron Timms / The Guardian
Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: A New Book on Popular Black History in Postwar America. By E. James West
Straggling in a Good Economy, and Now Struggling in a Crisis. By Patricia Cohen / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 23) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – ‘Open the Economy’ Protesters Only Care About White Lives. By Michael Harriot / The Root
The Brother Killer. Many factors make blacks, especially black men, particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
American capitalism is failing Trump’s base as white working-class ‘deaths of despair’ rise. By Anne Case and Angus Deaton / NBC News
Trump’s darkness: White supremacy, Christian nationalism and the coronavirus. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Native Americans were already decimated by a virus. They’re scared it could happen again. By John Blake / CNN
Biden criticizes Trump in statement against anti-Asian coronavirus racism. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
President Barack Obama endorses Joe Biden For President / You Tube
‘We Were Always Men.’ One hundred and fifty years ago, Frederick Douglass understood the link between voting rights and manhood for African-Americans. By Henry Louis Gates Jr. / NYT
Did the KKK or a Pedophile Ring Murder Dozens of Black Children in Atlanta? By Cassie Da Costa / The Daily Beast
Study Shows Black Male NCAA Basketball Players More Likely to Graduate When They Have a Black Head Coach. By Daryl Nelson / Atlanta Black Star
After Jackie: Players Who Followed Robinson To MLB Also Faced Ongoing Racism. By Andrew B. Distler / The Undefeated
ESPN’s MJ Documentary Shows the Power of 30 for 30 — Even Though It Isn’t One. By Will Leitch / New York Magazine
Watch the Trailer for Damien Chazelle’s New Jazz Drama ‘The Eddy.’ By Claire Shaffer / Rolling Stone
The Veterans : The journey of black actresses in Hollywood. By Brian Keith Jackson / NYT
Erased from utopia: the hidden history of LA’s black and brown resistance. By Mike Davis and Jon Wiener / The Guardian
‘Remarkable’ woman discovered as last known survivor of transatlantic slave trade. By Jack Guy / CNN
