Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Charlottesville city council votes to remove Confederate statues that were the focus of violent 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ rally. By Gregory S. Schneider / Wash Post
Mickey Guyton Takes On the Overwhelming Whiteness of Country Music. By Amanda Petrusich / The New Yorker
LeBron James to debut the Nike LeBron 19 in ‘Space Jam: A New Legacy.’ By Aaron Dodson / The Undefeated
Five things to know about James Madison’s star pitcher Odicci Alexander. By Jerry Bembry / The Undefeated
Simone Biles makes history with 7th US gymnastics title. By Aryana Azari / GMA
Why Allen Iverson And Vince Carter’s Epic Playoff Duel Held A Mirror To Society. By Justin Tinsley / The Undefeated
Analysis: Obama and Trump intensify their battle over democracy. By Stephen Collinson / CNN
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Critical race theory is a lens. Here are 11 ways looking through it might refine your view of history. By Eliott C. McLaughlin /…
A Year After America’s Racial Reckoning, Little Has Changed. By Janell Ross / Time
The hate crawling back out into the open. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Biden’s Tulsa speech offers a powerful rebuke to the GOP’s whitewash of history. By Max Boot / Wash Post
What if America’s future looks more like Florida than California? By James Hohmann / Wash Post
Black Lives Matter Has Grown More Powerful, and More Divided. By John Eligon / NYT
Pandemic misery index reveals far-reaching impact of COVID-19 on American lives, especially on Blacks and Latinos. By Kyla Thomas / The Conversation
Medical Journals Blind to Racism as Health Crisis, Critics Say. By Apoorva Mandavilli/NYT
In Texas, a struggle to memorialize a brutal lynching as resistance grows to teaching historical racism. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed African Americans. Dave Ross / History
Germany faced its horrible past. Can we do the same? By Michele L. Norris / Wash Post
How America Remembers— and Distorts — Its Slavery Past. By Julian Lucas / NYT
Greenwood Rising Links Tulsa’s Tragic History to Today’s Struggles. By Holland Cotter / NYT
Native American tribe in Maine buys back island taken 160 years ago. By Alice Hutton / The Guardian
The Black Hero Behind One of the Greatest Supreme Court Justices. By Peter S. Canellos / Politico
A Florida school board is renaming middle and high schools honoring Confederate leaders. By Alaa Elassar / CNN
Tom Hanks says movies and TV shows must ‘portray the burden of racism.’ By Rob Picheta / CNN
‘In the Heights’ is more than a movie to its cast. It’s a celebration of Latinas throughout history. By Candice Frederick / Wash Post
NFL to halt ‘race-norming,’ review Black claims in $1 billion concussion settlement. By AP and ESPN
