Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Black Art and Poetry Elevate a Tribute to Civil Rights Leaders. By Maya Phillips / NYT
Whitney Houston Becomes First Black Artist To Sell Three Diamond-Certified Albums. By Carlie Porterfield / Forbes
Protecting Your Birth: A Guide For Black Mothers. By Erica Chidi and Erica P. Cahill / NYT
LeBron James to produce documentary on 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. By Zoe Christen Jones / CBS News
Jackie Robinson challenged baseball and others to acknowledge, value Black life. By Doug Glanville / The Undefeated
If the Supreme Court tosses Obamacare, football players will feel the loss. By Kevin B. Blackstone / Wash Post
Trump’s Army of Angry White Men. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Nov 2) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Morgan Freeman Spells Out Exactly What’s At Stake This Election. By Lee Moran / HuffPost
How Donald Trump Talks About Black People. By Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
End Minority Rule. Either we become a truly multiracial democracy or we cease to be a democracy at all. By Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt / NYT
When We Talk About Fox News, We Need to Talk About the Murdoch Family Too. By Peter Mass / The Intercept
Voter Suppression Efforts Could Be Backfiring on Republicans. By Ari Berman / Mother Jones
Senate: Mike Espy gains new attention in race against Cindy Hyde-Smith. Phillip M. Bailey and Luke Ramseth / USA Today
The Woman Who Led Kamala Harris to This Moment. By Rika Sharma Rani / The Atlantic
Alabama Voters To Decide On Scrubbing Racist Language From State Constitution. By Jay Reeves / AP / HuffPost
Being Black lowers the value of my home: The legacy of redlining. By Michelle Singletary / Wash Post
In Mississippi, more White people now have gotten Covid-19 than African Americans. Attitudes about masks might help explain why, official says. By Jason Hanna / CNN
Racism’s hidden toll. In Minneapolis, the physical and mental strain of a lifetime confronting racism surfaced in George Floyd’s final years. By Robert Samuels / Wash Post
Alicia Garza Was Potential Target of Armed White Supremacist. By Ishena Robinson / The Root
‘Protect Breonna, protect myself’: Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend recounts night she was killed. By Emily Shapiro / ABC News
Gap widens between unemployment aid for Blacks, whites. By Jessica Menton / USA Today
Jay- Z launches Monogram, his own cannabis line. By Chevaz Clarke / CBS
He fought for Black voting rights after the Civil War. He was almost killed for it. By Jess McHugh / Wash Post
How Saidiya Hartman Retells the History of Black Life. By Alexia Okeowo / The New Yorker
New film spotlights shifting politics of Asian American voters, the fastest growing voter bloc. By Claire Wang / NBC News
Recording Academy announces Black Music Collective leadership. By Jennifer McClellan / USA Today
