Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
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
“Racism in America Is Endemic”: Democratic Candidates Vow to Confront White Supremacy & Legacy of Slavery. By Juan Gonzalez / Democracy Now
The Democratic Candidates Did Nothing to Appeal to Hispanic Voters. By Jorge G. Castaneda / NYT
O’Rourke Promises To ‘Take Your AR-15,’ But Americans Are Split On Buybacks. By Brandon Carter / NPR
Civil Rights Groups Challenge Trump’s “Racially Discriminatory Scheme” to Skew Redistricting. Ari Berman / Mother Jones
How Black Americans Were Robbed of Their Land. Video by The Atlantic
Couples in Virginia will no longer have to disclose race to obtain a marriage license. By Minyvonne Burke / NBC News
Crystal Mason Reacts To Felicity Huffman’s 14-Day Prison Sentence. By Sam levine / HuffPost
The Ongoing Struggle of the Black Ivy League. By Alaina Morgan / AAIHS
Lupita Nyong’o Talks Us, Black Panther, Her Oscar and Americana. By Kimberly Drew / Vanity Fair
Restoring Black Cowboys to the Range. By Sarah Maslin Nir / NYT
Country Music Is More Diverse Than You Think. By Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan / NYT
