Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
For the first time, the NFL will have a Black female game official. By Matt Bonesteel / Wash Post
Venus and Serena Williams Owe Their $305 Million Tennis Careers To a Man Who Knew Nothing About the Sport. By William Ricks / Sportscasting
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin brings experience dealing with racism, extremism to Pentagon. By Lisa Martinez / ABC News
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Joe Biden just launched the second war on poverty. By Dylan Matthews / Vox
The Senate filibuster has a racist past and present. End it so America can move forward. By Rashad Robinson / USA Today
Mike Pence’s Blueprint for Permanent Authoritarian Rule. New York Magazine
Voter Suppression Is Grand Larceny. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Trump CPAC comeback speech showed a sad little man angry at the world. By David Mastio and Jill Lawrence / USA Today
White women and the racist right: Marjorie Taylor Greene is not an aberration. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
FBI Director Says Domestic Extremism ‘Metastasizing’ Around The Country. By Nick Visser / HuffPost
Stockton’s Basic Income Experiment Has Spectacular Outcome for Progressivism, Covid Relief Package. By Mrmuni 12 / Daily Kos
The White Fear That Drove the College Cheating Scandal. By Nicole Laporte / Time
Losing generation of activists who fought racism proves need for Asian American studies. By Claire Wang / NBC News
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
