Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Mississippi Must Pay $500,000 To Man Wrongfully Imprisoned 23 Years. By Sara Boboltz / HuffPost
Smith College controversy highlights struggles colleges face in making racially equitable campuses. By Taylor Romine / CNN
Colleges confront their links to slavery and wrestle with how to atone for past sins. Calvin Schermerhorn / The Conversation
Johnson & Johnson vaccine deepens concerns over racial and geographic inequities. By Isaac Stanley-Becker / Wash Post
What ‘Defund the Police’ Really Means. By Simon Balto / AAIHS
Vernon Jordan, civil rights leader and presidential confidant, dies at 85. By Judy Woodruff / PBS
Sacred Apache land ‘on death row’ in standoff with foreign mining titans. By Christine Romo, Cynthia McFadden, Kit Ramgopal and Rich Schapiro / NBC News
Passed Over 3 Times by the Marines, a Black Colonel Is Being Promoted to General. By Helene Cooper / NYT
No wedge issue too stupid or racist for Republicans, as Dr. Seuss flap shows. By Laura Clawson / Daily Kos
Netflix’s ‘I Got a Story to Tell’ documents the story of Biggie Smalls’ most tragic friendship. By Justin Tinsley / The Undefeated
Reckonings, pain and joy: ABC’s ambitious “Soul of a Nation” explores all of it for all Americans. By Melanie McFarland / Salon
Chloe Zhao Makes History As First Asian Woman To Win Best Director Golden Globe. By Cole Delbyck / HuffPost
Nice assist – NBA All-Star events to help HBCUs. By Eric Woodyard / ESPN
Bill Wright, Who Broke a Color Barrier in Golf, Dies at 84. By Richard Sandomir / NYT
Atlanta Dream Are Sold After Players’ Revolt Against Kelly Loeffler. By Sopan Deb and Kevin Draper /NYT
Democrats Need H.R. 1 and the New VRA to Protect Voting Rights. By Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 8) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin brings experience dealing with racism, extremism to Pentagon. By Lisa Martinez / ABC News
The Republican Party Is Now in Its End Stages. By Tom Nichols / The Atlantic
“Renegades” Podcast Review: Obama and Springsteen Are Here to Lull America. By Lauren Michele Jackson / The New Yorker
Kamala Harris Can Save the $15 Minimum Wage. By Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone
Meet The Voting Rights Heavy-Hitters That Biden Has Picked To Lead DOJ. By Tierney Sneed / TPM
New US envoy to UN gets red carpet welcome from Russia. By Edith M. Lederer. By AP and ABC News
Criminal Justice Is a State Issue. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Not One Republican Asked Deb Haaland About Her Vision For Indian Country. By Chris D’Angelo / HuffPost
TIAA is the first company in Fortune 500 history to have two Black CEOs in a row. By Jena McGregor / Wash Post
Black women feel outsize burden from the Covid-19 economy, survey finds. By Michelle Fox and Sharon Epperson / NBC News
