Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
D.C. United’s new head of business operations will be first Black president of an MLS team. By Steven Goff / Wash Post
The LeBron James era is winding down. This time, the NBA has a strong transition game. By Jerry Brewer / Wash Post
Tiger Woods Saw ‘Incredible Golf Shots’: His Son’s. By Karen Crouse / NYT
Deion Sanders and Jackson State have HBCUs’ best football recruiting class. By Ashton Edmunds and Marissa Stubbs / The Undefeated
Five Kwanzaa Celebrations Around the Country. By Nicole Taylor / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Dec 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Black workers face two of the most lethal preexisting conditions for coronavirus—racism and economic inequality. By Elise Gould and Valerie Wilson / Economic Policy…
Georgia Pastors See Attack on Black Church in Campaign Against Warnock. By Rick Rojas / NYT
Ossoff makes closing pitch to rural Black voters. By Maya King / Politico
Black candidates can win in swing districts. By Jacob Smith / The Conversation
Kamala Harris prepares for her historic vice presidency by studying Joe Biden’s legacy. By Dan Merica and Jasmine Wright / CNN
Deb Haaland: Biden’s Pick To Be 1st Native American Cabinet Secretary. By Nathan Rott / NPR
2020: The year America confronted racism. By Nicole Chavez / CNN
Vaccinating Black Americans Is Essential. Key States Aren’t Doing the Work to Combat Hesitancy. By Caroline Chen, et al. / Propublica
Newly released video shows police didn’t immediately help Ahmaud Arbery as he lay dying. By Bert Roughton and Hannah Knowles / Wash Post
Chicago police must account for their degrading treatment of Anjanette Young. The Editorial Board / Wash Post
Schools, caught by pandemic and confronting systemic racism, jettison testing for admissions. By Laura Meckler and Hannah Natanson / Wash Post
Researcher Timnit Gebru Says Google Wanted ‘My Presence, But Not Me Exactly.’ By Bobby Allyn / NPR
For the Last 4 Years “Tribes Have Been Pushed Aside by This Administration.” By Anna V. Smith / Mother Jones
MacKenzie Scott’s gifts to HBCUs, other colleges surpass $800 million. By Nick Anderson and Lauren Lumpkin / Wash Post
Why wealthy women of color are more confident investors than their white female peers. By Emma Hinchliffe / Fortune
Lewis and Clark’s Long, Dark Winter. And Ours. By Timothy Egan / NYT
Here’s what might replace America’s disappearing Confederate monuments. By Phillip Morris / National Geographic
Drumming down the walls of racism: Remembering Max Roach. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom on Netflix: Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman are stunning. By Alissa Wilkinson / Vox
“Education” culminates Amazon’s “Small Axe” film series, finding beauty in the necessary struggle. By Melanie McFarland / Salon
His Storied Life: James Wiley, Tuskegee Airman and American War Hero. By Charleen Smith-Riedel / Smithsonian Folklife
