Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Glynn Turman on ‘Fargo,’ ‘Ma Rainey,’ and His 60-Year Career. By Alan Sepinwall / Rolling Stone
Patti LaBelle, the Doyenne of Philadelphia Soul. By Mark Anthony Neal / NYT
Book Review: ‘Black Futures,’ A Peek at the Variety, Wonder and Trauma of Black Life, Then and Now. By Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham. NYT
A push to recognize the statistics of Black players from baseball’s era of apartheid. By Kevin Baxter / LA Times
NFL agent David Mulugheta hopes his work can serve as an inspiration to other Black sports agents. By Emmanuel Morgan / LA Times
Minority Rule Cannot Last in America. It Never Has. By Kenneth Owen / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest (Dec 7) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Ijeoma Oluo’s ” Mediocre: The Dangerous legacy of White Male America.”
What exit polls say about state of Georgia’s Senate runoffs. By Elena Cox and Lacrai Mitchell / CBS News
How Trump revealed the right’s “psychic longing for an American strongman.” By Alex Henderson / Alternet and Salon
Biden Creates Diverse Covid-19 Advisory Board To Contrast With Trump. By Andrew Solendar / Forbes
From Covid-19 to racial justice, how 2020’s biggest issues influenced the Black vote. By Donna Owens / NBC News
Biden is under pressure to forgive student debt. Here’s why it’s a racial issue. By Randi Richardson / NBC News
Parler is bringing together mainstream conservatives, anti-Semites and white supremacists as the social media platform attracts millions of Trump supporters. By Alex Newhouse / The Conversation
In Trump v. Biden, Native American voters played a crucial role. It’s time to recognize that. By Julian Brave NoiseCat / NBC News
Obama’s take on evangelical Hispanics could reinforce Democrats’ challenges. By Eugene Scott / Wash Post
Beyond Breonna: Louisville Police Make the Case for Abolition. By Natasha Lennard / The Intercept
Newly Elected Progressive DAs Promise To End Policies Deemed Unfair. By Cheryl Corley / NPR
Wilton Gregory becomes first Black American cardinal — after three coronavirus tests and a quarantine. By Chico Harlan / Wash Post
Black Americans are forced to operate our entire lives in battle mode. It’s utterly exhausting. By Nathan McCall / Wash Post
Tokenized’: Inside Black Workers’ Struggles at the King of Crypto Start-Ups. By Nathaniel Popper / NYT
‘And THAT’S That!’: Correcting The Historical Record With Nikole Hannah-Jones. By Ja’han Jones / HuffPost Podcast
George Washington’s 1795 Thanksgiving celebrated liberty. But the chef behind the feast had none. By Ramin Ganeshram / Wash Post
Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War. By Jennifer Szalai / NYT
For Black tour guides in Savannah, the historical is personal. By Ariel Felton / Wash Post
John Coltrane’s favorite composition was the love song he wrote for his first wife, Naima. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
David Dinkins Kept Loving Tennis, No Matter Who Mocked Him. By Victor Mather / NYT
