Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Homeland Security shuttered a domestic terror intelligence unit despite rising threats. By Luke Barnes / ThinkProgress
Facebook Says White Nationalist Video Doesn’t Break New Policy Against White Nationalism. By Andy Campbell / HuffPost
High school students of color are protesting racism and inequality. By P.R. Lockhart / Vox
American Meritocracy Is a Myth. By Rajan Menon / The Nation
Senate Bill Pushes The Feds To Focus On Violence Against Native Women. By Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost
Poor, mostly black Tennessee county has highest rate of IRS audits, while wealthy skate. By Igor Derysh / Salon
Lori Lightfoot Wins Chicago Mayor Race, Will Be First Black Woman In Role. By Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost
‘Why Aren’t Democrats Winning the Hispanic Vote 80-20 or 90-10?’ By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
On Equal Pay Day, A Reminder That The Gap Is Far Greater For Women Of Color. By Ryan Grenoble / HuffPost
Michelle Obama’s Trump bump: Is nostalgia key to the historic sales of ‘Becoming’? By Jessica M. Goldstein / ThinkProgress
Scholar Kathleen Belew on New Zealand, Donald Trump and the rise of “white power.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (April 8) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – White supremacy must be undone — institution by institution. By Michael Gerson / Wash Post
Donald Trump and racist violence: Research points to a clear connection. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
How the Southern Poverty Law Center got Rich Fighting the Klan. By Editorial Staff / The Progressive
Fighting Racial Bias in an Age of Mass Murder: Prejudice from the Coffee Shop to Charlottesville. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
50 Years of Affirmative Action: What Went Right, and What It Got Wrong. By Anemona Hartocollis / NYT
An Invisible Crisis: Native American Tribes Ravaged by Opioids Take On Purdue Pharma & the Sacklers. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Trump and Fox News’ Strategic Obsession With Jussie Smollett. By Adam Howard / The Daily Beast
NFL’s minority head coaches weigh in on state of diversity in their ranks. By Jason Reid / The Undefeated
Marvin Gaye’s Lost Album Finds Him at the Peak of His Creativity. By Jack Hamilton / Slate
A very deep kind of patriotism’: Memorial to honor Native American veterans is coming to the Mall. By Dana Hedgpeth / Wash Post
Facebook Bans White Nationalism And Separatism Content From Its Platforms. By Sasha Ingber / NPR
As a Black Mother, My Parenting Is Always Political. By Dani McClain / The Nation
Race Inquiry Digest (April 4) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Scholar Kathleen Belew on New Zealand, Donald Trump and the rise of “white power.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
(We digress) William Barr Reads “Moby-Dick,” Finds No Evidence of Whales. By Andy Borowitz / The New Yorker
It’s Bigger Than Mueller and Trump. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
What Should Stacey Abrams Do? By Bob Moser / The New Republic
Segregation Has Been the Story of New York City’s Schools for 50 Years. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
We need more teachers of color, so why do we use tests that keep them out of the classroom? By Emery Petchauer / The Conversation
America’s legacy of racial terror and Charles W. Chesnutt’s “The Marrow of Tradition.” By Wiley Cash / Salon
