Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
My Family’s Life Inside and Outside America’s Racial Categories. By Thomas Chatterton Williams / NYT
Reminder: ‘Hispanics,’ ‘Latinos,’ and ‘Latinx’ are not a race. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
DHS Warns Against Growing Threat Of White Supremacist Extremism Online. By Amy Russo / HuffPost
The Argument Against D.C. Statehood Is Rooted in Racism. By Nick Martin / The New Republic
‘SNL’ firing Shane Gillis isn’t enough. Asian stereotypes still support the white status quo. By Marie Myung-Ok Lee/ NBC News
Felicity Huffman: White is the color of remorse. By Michael Orsini and Linda Mussell / Salon
Trevor Noah Proposes ‘Buyback’ Scheme To Get Blackface Off The Streets. By Josie Harvey / HuffPost
Can a Trumpet Silence a Gun? Terence Blanchard Wants to Try. By Larry Blumenfeld / The Daily Beast
Ex-NBA superstar Kobe Bryant scores points as an investor by preaching patience. By Edward C. Baig / USA Today
More states are trying to protect black employees who want to wear natural hairstyles at work. By Jena McGregor / Wash Post
Exclusive: Martin Luther King Jr. Talks Reparations, White Economic Anxiety and Guaranteed income in a Previously Unheard Speech. By Michael Hariot / The Root
Race Inquiry Digest (Sept 26) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Keeanaga-Yamahtta Taylor Says There Is No Housing Crisis: ” It’s Just Housing Under Capitalism. By Nawal Arjini / The Nation
He was a Yale graduate, Wall Street banker and entrepreneur. Today he’s homeless in Los Angeles. By Dan Simon / CNN
Revisiting the Poor People’s Campaign and Its Legacy. By Bobby Cervantes / AAIHS
Reparations are essential to eliminating the substantial wealth gap between black and white Americans. By Christian Weller / The Conversation
Donald Trump, king of chaos: New research on right-wing psychology points toward big trouble ahead. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Republicans Don’t Believe in Democracy. By Paul Krugman / NYT
The Most Important Question Facing Americans Today. Who Counts? By Dahlia Lithwick / Slate
A central 2020 question for Democrats: How critical are working-class white voters? By Phillip Bump / Wash Post
Can Democrats attract enough Latinos to change politics as we know it? By Eugene Daniels / Politico
Kamala Harris grew up in a mostly white world. Then she went to a black university in a black city. By Robin Givhan / Wash Post
The Untold Story: Joe Biden Pushed Ronald Reagan to Ramp Up Incarceration — Not the Other Way Around. By David Stein / The Intercept
The Joe Biden wokeness paradox: Can black voters support him and also hold him accountable? By D. Watkins / Salon
The parking garage beating lasted 10 seconds. DeAndre Harris still lives with the damage. By Ian Shapira / Wash Post
How Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Novel Reckons With the Past. By Eric Herschthal / The New Republic
William F. Buckley Jr. vs. James Baldwin: A racial showdown on the American dream. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
Exploring the intersection of sports and criminal justice reform. By Sean Hurd / The Undefeated
Hollow boom: why black Americans feel left out of US’s robust economy. By Lauren Aratani / The Guardian
Race Inquiry Digest (Sept 23) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Exclusive: Martin Luther King Jr. Talks Reparations, White Economic Anxiety and Guaranteed income in a Previously Unheard Speech. By Michael Hariot / The…
The Ticking Time Bomb in Biden’s ‘Record Player’ Answer. Jeff Greenfield / Politico
