Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Why a shootout between Black Panthers and law enforcement 50 years ago matters today. By Paul Ringel / The Conversation
Fighting school segregation didn’t take place just in the South. By Ashley Farmer / The Conversation
The bright light shining on America’s best Black artists has a fascinating backstory. By By Sebastian Smee / Wash Post
Mary Wilson, a founding member of ‘The Supremes,’ has died. By Joe Sutton and Hollie Silverman / CNN
Curt Flood’s Fight Was About More Than Baseball. By Jemele Hill / The Atlantic
Kevin Garnett Isn’t Sure His Generation Could Play in Today’s N.B.A. By David Marchese / NYT
Only Venus Williams gets to decide when she leaves. By AP and USA Today
Why Super Bowl LV should be the Kansas City Chiefs’ last with that name — and might well be. By Simon Moya-Smith / NBC News
Our democracy faced a near-death experience. Here’s how to revive it. By Stacey Abrams / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (Feb 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Way Out of America’s Zero-Sum Thinking on Race and Wealth. By Heather C. McGee / NYT
Trump Trial Also A Referendum On Authoritarianism In America. By S.V. Date / HuffPost
Republicans advance more than 100 bills that would restrict voting in wake of Trump’s defeat. By Jane O. Timm / NBC News
How Democrats Found Thousands Of New Voters And Flipped Georgia’s Senate Seats. By Emma Hurt / NPR
How Biden could help narrow the racial wealth gap with just one appointment. By Helaine Olen / Wash Post
It will take more than the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act to fix our broken system. By John Rappaport and Ben Grunwald / Wash Post
In Biden administration reversal, Justice Dept. drops discrimination suit against Yale. By Pete Williams / NBC News
Latino-owned businesses are seeing record growth. Big banks are still not funding them. By Brandon Gomez / NBC News
The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Billionaire Arthur Hayes. By Adam Ciralsky / Vanity Fair
Black Doctors’ COVID Burden: Patients’ Social Ills and Workplace Bigotry | Healthiest Communities Health News. By Joseph P. Williams / U.S. News
Atlanta Falcons owner donating $17M to civil rights museum. By Associate Press and ABC News
How racial diversity can help the FBI solve its “privilege naiveté” problem. By Iveta Cherneva / Salon
How ‘Uncle Tom’ still impacts racial politics. By Cheryl Thompson / The Conversation
The Plan to Build a Capital for Black Capitalism. By Kelefa Sanneh / New Yorker
How a Three-Word Phrase Sabotaged Black Voting Rights, and How They Can Be Reconstructed. By Pema levy / Mother Jones
When Gandhi Introduced America’s Civil Rights Leaders to Nonviolence. By Peter Eisenstadt / The Daily Beast
2 Confederate statues were removed in Georgia within 3 days. By Hollie Silverman and Melissa Alonso / CNN
