Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
The Myth Of Black Immunity: Racialized Disease During The COVID-19 Pandemic. By Chelsey Carter And Ezelle Sanford III / AAIHS
The Economic Crash Is Going To Be Particularly Awful For Women And People Of Color. By Kara Voght / Mother Jones
The Real Epidemic is Poverty. By Rev. Dr. William Barber II / The Progressive
Our Right to Vote in November is in Real Danger – But it Can Still be Saved. By Doug Gordon / Newsweek
Investigative reporter Robert Evans: “We’re on the edge of an authoritarian nightmare.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Black Bourgeois: A New Book About The Dilemma Of Black Middle-Class Embodiment In The Post-Civil Rights Era. By AAIHS Editors
Andrew Yang was wrong. Showing our ‘Americanness’ is not how Asian-Americans stop racism. By Canwen Xu / Wash Post
Bill Withers Was the Definition of Timeless. By Bill Wyman / Vulture
Ellis Marsalis, Jazz Pianist and Music Family Patriarch, Dies at 85. By Giovanni Russonello and Michael Levenson / NYT
Meghan Markle’s Elephant Voiceover Has Been in the Works Since 2017. By Erin Vanderhoof / Vanity Fair
How Serena And Venus Helped Two Unknown Brothers Reach Tennis’ Elite. By Sports Chew
Kobe Bryant Elected To Hall Of Fame In Posthumous ‘Peak Of His Career.’ By Colin Dwyer / NPR
Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate. By Akilah Johnson and Tahia Buford / Propublica
Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 9) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Three Important Interviews on Pandemic Racism. By Jeremy Scahill / The Intercept Podcast
Health issues for blacks, Latinos and Native Americans may cause coronavirus to ravage communities. By Deborah Barfield Berry / USA Today
Democratic Lawmakers Call for Racial Data in Virus Testing. By Aaron Morrison / US News
Asian American athletes speak out against coronavirus racism. By Martenzie Johnson / The Undefeated
Thousands of people push back as Trump continues his blatant disrespect of black women journalists. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
The coronavirus crisis will determine whether Trump is a one-term president, but it may reshape the social order far more. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Republicans are still playing games with D.C. at the height of a deadly pandemic. By Editorial Board / Wash Post
A Preventable Cancer Is on the Rise in Alabama. By Eyal Press / The Nation
Missouri man planned to bomb hospital during pandemic to get attention for white supremacist views. By Pete Williams / NBC News
Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On”: A listening guide. By Kenneth Womack / Salon
A’Lelia Bundles Is On A Mission To Tell The Truth About Madam C.J. Walker. By Philip Lewis / HuffPost
Plots against America? Jim Crow was homegrown fascism. By History News Network / AlterNet
Netflix’s “Uncorked” spills the real truth about rejection and privilege in pursuit of passion. By D. Watkins / Salon
In 1918 and 2020, race colors America’s response to epidemics. By Soraya Nadia McDonald / The Undefeated
Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 6) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate. By Akilah Johnson and Tahia Buford / Propublica
E Pluribus Unum. Shared Sacrifice Will Be Needed To Beat Coronovirus Says Documentarian Ken Burns. By Steven Bertoni / Forbes
D.J.T. Is No F.D.R. Roosevelt’s first inaugural cleared the way for action, pointing the country toward a singular goal. Where is that spirit now? By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
