Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Ladee Hubbard’s ‘The Rib King’ is a fascinating look at ambition, race and revenge. By Naomi Jackson / Wash Post
The White Tiger on Netflix review: The anti-Slumdog Millionaire. By Alissa Wilkinson / Vox
Junior Mance, jazz pianist whose chords were built on the blues, dies at 92. By Matt Schudel / Wash Post
For the Culture magazine celebrates Black women in food. Finally. By Aaron Hutcherson / Wash Post
Hank Aaron, Baseball’s Legendary Slugger, Dies At 86. By Bill Chappell / NPR
Washington’s Jennifer King to become NFL’s first Black woman named full-time assistant coach. By Nicki Jhabvala / Wash Post
Washington Football Team names Martin Mayhew as GM, will hire Marty Hurney as high-level executive. By Nicki Jhabvala / Wash Post
What is Reconstruction? The era offers lessons on white nationalism, Trump, and the Capitol riot. By Fabiola Cineas / Vox
Race Inquiry Digest (Jan 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured We need more ‘trauma-free Blackness.’ Here’s a start. By John Blake / CNN
Ken Burns Says U.S. Has 3 Viruses: COVID-19, White Supremacy And Misinformation. By Rachel Martin / NPR
Obituary for a Failed Presidency. By Susan B. Glasser / The New Yorker
Would MLK have wanted “healing” after this outrage? Not without justice. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
What Jon Ossoff means for the South and its buried Jewish past. By Steve Oney / Wash Post
New data shows both a hopeful and worrying portrait of race in America. By Henry Olsen / Wash Post
The Jamaican connection. By Robert Samuels / Wash Post
New Program Aims To Bring More Civil Rights Lawyers To The South. By Carrie Johnson / NPR
The Prophecies of George Floyd. By Michael Eric Dyson / The New Yorker
A Black Lives Matter Founder on Building Modern Movements. By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor / The New Yorker
A Disproportionate Share of COVID-19 Vaccines Are Going to White People. By Madison Pauly / Mother Jones
Raphael Warnock and the Solitude of the Black Senator. By Theodore R. Johnson / NYT
Lincoln Knew in 1838 What 2021 Would Bring. By Bret Stephens / NYT
Enslaved Black craftsmen helped build the U.S. Capitol that a mob fueled by racist rhetoric stormed. By Felicia A. Bell / Wash Post
Trump Administration’s ‘1776 Report’ Justifies Slavery, Three-Fifths Compromise. By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost
When Medicare Helped Kill Jim Crow. By Mike Konczal / The Nation
Before ‘I Have a Dream,’ Martin Luther King Almost Died. This Man Saved Him. By Michael Wilson / NYT
Black Music Has a New Home in Nashville. By Margaret Renkl / NYT
