Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Race Inquiry Digest (Jan 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Thoroughly Respectable Capitol Rioters. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Democrat Jon Ossoff Has Defeated Republican David Perdue, Giving Democrats A Stunning Sweep Across Georgia’s Senate Races. By Ryan Brooks / BuzzFeed News
The other Georgia slugfest: A Brian Kemp-Stacey Abrams rematch. By Andrew Desiderio / Politico
A leading historian of U.S. democracy issues an urgent warning. By Greg Sargent / Wash Post
DOJ asks White House if it can undo some civil rights protections. By Paul LeBlanc / CNN
The reality of being Black in America isn’t changing fast enough. By Etan Thomas / The Undefeated
The year of reckoning: How 2020 revealed the fault lines in American policing, and what we can expect next. By Majlie de Puy Kamp / CNN
How Biden Can Support Black America. By Barbara Ransby / The Nation
White American Wealth Hits Record High on Pandemic Stocks Surge. By Alexandre Tanzi / Bloomberg Wealth
It’s Time for America to Reinvest in Public Housing. By Ross Barkan / NYT
We Are the ‘Exonerated 5.’ What Happened to Us Isn’t Past, It’s Present. By Yusef Salaam, Kevin Richardson and Raymond Santana / NYT
2021’s call to Reconstruction. By E. J. Dionne Jr. / Wash Post
Vernon Jordan: Make It Plain. By PBS
Rooting out racism in children’s books. Lindsey Perez Huber / The Conversation
Take Beautiful Pictures of Our People.’ By Siddhartha Mitter / NYT
Bruce Maxwell: Baseball star took a knee and then his life unraveled in Trump’s America. By Don Riddell / CNN
NFL head coach: Will teams do more than talk about hiring minorities? By Nancy Armour / USA Today
Alabama Wide Receiver DeVonta Smith Wins the Heisman Trophy. By Alan Blinder / NYT
The Negro Leagues Museum, after a year of loss, counts its ‘merger’ with MLB as a win. By Michael Lee / Wash Post
In Georgia, Pro Teams Dive Into Senate Races With Different Playbooks. By Ken Belson / NYT
Raphael Warnock’s Win Is One for the History Books. By Astead W. Herndon / NYT
Georgia enters final days of pivotal Senate races. By Judy Woodruff / PBS Podcast
The Southern state where Black voters are gaining in numbers, but not power. By Renuka Rayasam / Politico
2020: The Year Black Voters Said, ‘Hold Up.’ By Teresa Wiltz / Politico
Are we allowed to whisper about the transition to President Harris? By Douglas MacKinnon / The Hill
After Five Centuries, a Native American With Real Power. By Timothy Egan / NYT
