Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
UCLA’s Martin Jarmond: Change Needs To Happen Quickly To Fix College Sports. By William C. Rhoden / The Undefeated
How Racism Prevented Lee Elder From Being Among Golf’s Big Three. By Farrell Evans / The Undefeated
Kelvin Sampson recalls racism he fought growing up in North Carolina. By William C. Rhoden / The Undefeated
If It’s Not Jim Crow, What Is It? Georgia’s new voting law has to be understood in its own peculiar historical context. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 12) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured “Exterminate All the Brutes,” Reviewed: A Vast, Agonizing History of White Supremacy. By Richard Brody / The New Yorker
Companies Condemn Georgia’s Restrictive Voting Law Amid Pressure Campaign From Advocates. By Sanya Mansoor / Yahoo News
What Georgia’s Voting Law Really Does. By Nick Corasaniti and Reid J. Epstein / NYT
Republican Lawmakers Introduce Hundreds Of Bills To Restrict Voting Rights Nationwide. By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman /HuffPost
MLB moves All-Star Game out of Atlanta following voting law controversy. By Mark Osborne and Quinn Scanlan / ABC News
Amid Awakening, Asian-Americans Are Still Taking Shape as a Political Force. By Sabrina Tavernise /NYT
Jim Clyburn ‘Insulted’ By Joe Manchin’s Position On Voting Rights Bill. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
Virginia, the Old Confederacy’s Heart, Becomes a Voting Rights Bastion. By Reid J. Epstein and Nick Corasaniti / NYT
Getting Vaccinated While Black. By Jimmie Briggs / Vanity Fair
A Black Army Rises to Fight the Racist Right. By Graeme Wood / The Atlantic
The Interior Department Is Finally Getting Serious About Missing, Murdered Native Americans. By Ryan Grenoble / HuffPost
How Black Mississippians found their power during Jackson’s water emergency. By Frances Madeson / Daily Kos
Minority Entrepreneurs Struggled to Get Small-Business Relief Loans. By Stacy Cowley / NYT
Why Brown University students say it’s time for the school to offer reparations. By Randi Richardson / NBC News
How Chicago’s affordable housing system perpetuates city’s long history of segregation. By Safia Samee Ali / NBC News
White mobs rioted in Washington in 1848 to defend slaveholders’ rights after 76 Black enslaved people staged an unsuccessful mass escape on a boat. By Michael David Cohen / The Conversation
Nathan Bedford Forrest Day Still Observed In TN After Leg Stands Up For Slave Trader Again. By Matt Shuham / TPM
Why Paul Robeson’s Voice Still Rings True Today. By Tayo Aluko / The Progressive
Elderly Black Panther Has Been in Prison for Five Decades. By Natasha Lennard / The Intercept
Virginia Supreme Court clears the way for Charlottesville to take down statue of Robert E. Lee. By Gregory S. Schneider / Wash Post
Watch “Cynthia Erivo gives stirring performance of ‘Stand Up’” on YouTube
Why Hollywood is finally trying to tell slain Black Panther Fred Hampton’s story. By P.R. Lockhart / NBC News
