Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Vanderbilt Student Senate Approves Bill to Rename Calhoun Hall, Two More Buildings Due to Slave-Owning Past. By Jenni Fink / Newsweek
Has Germany Forgotten the Lessons of the Nazis? By Paul Hockenos / NYT
Robert Reich on America’s inequality crisis: Trump’s “greedy enablers” will “reap the whirlwind.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
When Medical Schools Become Less Diverse. By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
Facing Segregated Schools, Parents Took Integration Into Their Own Hands. It’s Working. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
Aretha Franklin wins posthumous 2019 Pulitzer Prize. By Associated Press
Trump and Pence tweeted about Notre Dame fire but said nothing when 3 black churches burned. By Eugene Scott / Wash Post
Can a Prosecutor Ever Truly Be Progressive? Ferguson May Be the Ultimate Test Case. By Jacob Rosenberg / Mother Jones
Jackie Robinson was asked to denounce Paul Robeson. Instead, he went after Jim Crow. By Johnny Smith / The Undefeated
Tiger Woods in plain sight. By William C. Rhoden / The Undefeated Video
White Coaches Pick the Wrong Side When They Talk Down to Their Black Athletes. By Andre Perry / The Root
Demonizing Minority Women. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (April 22) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Inciting Hatred Is Trump’s 2020 Game Plan. By John Nichols / The Nation
Georgetown students vote to raise tuition by $27 per semester to pay slavery reparations. By Abigail Hess / CNBC
How the 2020 Democrats Responded to Trump’s Attacks on Ilhan Omar. By Astead W. Herndon / NYT
‘Not a racist bone in his body’: The origins of the default defense against racism. By Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer / Wash Post
Trump’s Other Base. By Charles Blow / NYT
A Few More Black Students Are Offered Spots at Stuyvesant, Fanning Fresh Uproar. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
Former ‘Ebony’ Publisher Declares Bankruptcy, And An Era Ends. By Karen Grigsby Rates / NPR
Letters from Joe Biden reveal how he sought support of segregationists in fight against busing. By Jeff Zeleny / CNN
The Utter Inadequacy of America’s Efforts to Desegregate Schools. By Alana Semuels / The Atlantic
Trump blocks U.S. from nominating anyone to U.N. racism committee. By Casey Michel / ThinkProgress
It’s time for blacks to forgive Tiger Woods. By Michael A. Fletcher / The Undefeated
Scholar Jonathan Metzl: White supremacy is literally killing white people. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
People are again talking about slavery reparations. But it’s a complex and thorny issue. By Doug Criss / CNN
Race Inquiry Digest (April 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Demonizing Minority Women. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Why Kyle Korver’s words on white privilege and racism matter. By Marc J. Spears / The Undefeated
What does ‘white fragility’ mean? Facebook discussions about race add new words to dictionaries. By Jessica Guynn / USA Today
Pew Survey: 67 Percent of Whites Have Never Experienced Racial Discrimination, While 76 Percent of Blacks Have. By David Love / Atl Black Star
The fight against white supremacy could learn something from America’s first war on terror. By Charles Lane / Wash Post
