Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
You know about the Underground Railroad. But what about the Reverse Underground Railroad? By Richard Bell / Wash Post
The Enduring Battle to Diversify Historical Reenactment. By Nick Martin / The New Republic
Why Edward Norton Moved ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ To The New York Of Robert Moses. By Mary Louise Kelly
Kaiser Permanente CEO Bernard Tyson Has Died. The Lessons He Left Behind Are Worth Remembering. By Clifton Leaf / Fortune
The Complicated Significance Of Tyler Perry. By Taryn Finley / HuffPost
Frederick Douglass’s Vision for a Reborn America. By David W. Blight / The Atlantic
Brown is the New Black. In Trump’s America, African-Americans and Latinos have a new kind of solidarity. By Erin Aubry Kaplan / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Nov 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Stephen Miller’s Sinister Syllabus. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
‘Harriet’ breaks open what we know about slavery. By Lisa Woolfolk / CNN
The Legend of A-N-N-A: Revisiting and American Town Where Black People Weren’t Welcome After Dark. By Logan Jaffe / ProPublica
GI Bill opened doors to college for many vets, but politicians created a separate one for blacks. By Joseph Thompson / The Conversation
Hundreds March In Reenactment Of A Historic, But Long Forgotten Slave Rebellion. By Leila Fadel / NPR
They Are Racist; Some of Them Have Guns. Inside the White Supremacist Group Hiding in Plain Sight. By Carol Schaffer and Fritz Zimmermann / ProPublica
Don’t get suckered by the polls: Donald Trump will win again — unless we fight for democracy. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Black Lives MAGA: President launches Campaign Effort Called ‘Black Voices for Trump’ (of All Things) – In Atlanta (of All Places). By Karu F. Daniels / The Root
How Voters Turned Virginia From Deep Red to Solid Blue. By Sabrina Tavernise and Robert Gebeloff / NYT
Democratic wins come with a warning sign: Low African American voter turnout. By David Wasserman / NBC News
For black Americans moving to a new city, these are some of the worst places to settle. By Evan Comen / USA Today
How Latinos saved American cities. After whites fled and before the ‘creative class’ moved in, immigrants kept urban neighborhoods alive. By A.K. Sandoval-Strausz / Wash Post
Why the Bronx Burned. By Mrill Ingram / The Progressive
Kansas City voters choose to remove Martin Luther King Jr.’s name from a historic street. By David Williams / CNN
42 Texas Lawmakers Join Forces To Urge Governor to Halt Rodney Reed’s Execution. By Carla Herreria / HuffPost
Debt Is Holding Black Americans Hostage. By Edna Bonhomme / The Nation
Flint’s Children Suffer in Class After Years of Drinking the Lead-Poisoned Water. By Erica L. Green / NYT
Whitney Houston confidante Robyn Crawford confirms their queer relationship. By Trish Bendix / NBC News
Saeed Jones on “How We Fight For Our Lives” and writing with “skin in the game.” By D. Watkins / Salon
How Kim Kardashian West Came to Represent America. By Lauren Michele Jackson / Slate
Tiger Woods’ First Public Golf Course Is Awesome. By Larry Olmsted / Forbes
The ‘Lost Cause’ That Built Jim Crow. Southern “Redeemers” snuffed out the first black power movement. By Henry Louis Gates / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Nov 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Brown is the New Black. In Trump’s America, African-Americans and Latinos have a new kind of solidarity. By Erin Aubry Kaplan / NYT
