Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
A Piece of Shit: Former Top Obama Deputy Blasts Lindsey Graham in Wake of ‘Lynching’ Comments. By Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone
How Florida Republicans Are Talking About Impeachment. By Darlena Cunha / NYT
The Terror Gap: U.S. Laws Let White Supremacists Operate Like ISIS. By Rita Katz/ Daily Beast
A mob lynching of 4 black sharecroppers in 1946 is focus of court battle over grand jury secrecy. By The Associated Press
Cities with more black residents rely more on traffic tickets and fines for revenue. By Akheil Singla / The Conversation
The NBA’s Highest-Paid Players 2019-2020: Lebron James Scores $92 Million. By Kurt Bademhaueen / Forbes
When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr. By Thomas Meaney / NYT
The Fight to Desegregate New York Schools. By Sweta Vohra / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – I traveled the American South looking for a way to solve racial divisions. By Mitch Landrieu / CNN
Challengers To Florida ‘Poll Tax’ Law Targeting Ex-Felons Get Preliminary Win. By Tierney Sneed / Talingpointsmemo
Inside the “Most Incarcerated” Zip Code in the Country. By Caleb Gayle / The New Republic
What it means to raise a Black girl in white America. By D. Watkins / Salon
Can Warren win the nomination without majority black support? By Laura Barron-Lopez and Alex Thompson / Politico
A radical way to mobilize black voters in 2020: Work on issues, not voting. By Janell Ross / NBC News
Some minority workers are up to 20% more likely than white workers to report canceled shifts at work. By Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN
Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses his powerful debut novel, The Water Dancer, with Ibram X. Kendi.
When Latinx People Use the N-Word. By Gary Suarez / NYT
Washington doesn’t have a Latino history museum. These people are hoping to change that. By Leah Asmelash / CNN
Get ready to love ‘Watchmen,’ the smartest show on television. By Soraya Nadia McDonald / The Undefeated
“Tina: The Tina Turner Musical” Comes to Broadway. The New Yorker
Comedians have to walk a tightrope on issues of race. That will make the art form better. By Margaret Cho / NBC News
The X-Rated Godfather of Rap Gets His Due. By Bill Morris / Daily Beast
What Elijah Cummings Meant to Baltimore. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 24) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Fight to Desegregate New York Schools. By Sweta Vohra / NYT
Fort Worth Officer Charged With Murder for Shooting Woman in Her Home. By Marina Trahan Martinez, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Sarah Mervosh/ NYT
Trumpism’s Infinite Vulgarities. By Charles M. Blow
Here are the indigenous people Christopher Columbus and his men could not annihilate. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
An Early Case For Reparations. Two new books tell the stories of people kidnapped and sold into slavery. By Eric Herschthal / The New Republic
Ibram X. Kendi on “How to Be an Antiracist”: Racism and capitalism “will ultimately die together.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Racists Are Recruiting. Watch Your White Sons. By Joanna Schroeder / NYT
