Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
How racism became the essential tool for maintaining a capitalist order. By Richard D. Wolff / Salon
You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument. By Caroline Randall Williams / NYT
Yes, the Freedmen’s Memorial uses racist imagery. But don’t tear it down. By David W. Blight / Wash Post
Princeton To Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From Public Policy School. By Jason Slotkin / NPR
Georgia governor signs hate crime law following Ahmaud Arbery shooting. By Grace Hauck / USA Today
Why the lopsided House vote in favor of D.C. statehood was so historic. By Karen Tumulty / Wash Post
What PTSD tells us about the history of slavery. By Tyler D. Parry / Wash Post
NASA’s D.C. Headquarters Renamed For Mary W. Jackson, Depicted In ‘Hidden Figures.’ By Curtis M. Wong / HuffPost
The Theater Where Ella Fitzgerald Got Her Start. By Reggie Nadelson / NYT Magazine
Spike Lee’s ‘Rodney King’ to stream on Netflix. By Marianne Garvey / CNN
White identity in America is ideology, not biology. The history of ‘whiteness’ proves it. By Nell Irvin Painter / NBC News
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 2) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Trump has America staring down the barrel of a gun. By Leonard Pitts Jr. / Miami Herald
Trump Is Promising Four More Years of Strife. He can’t run on accomplishments. So he’s running on violence and fear. By William Saletan / Slate
Rayshard Brooks’ Funeral, MLK’s Daughter Gives Powerful Speech. By TMZ
Tamir Rice’s mother fights racism in America and police brutality. By Nicquel Terry Ellis / USA Today
Trump’s ‘Kung flu’ slur, pervasive scapegoating recall a brutal decades-old hate crime. By Claire Wang / NBC News
White Southerners, our souls are at stake. We must speak up now. By Joanna Adams / CNN
Young Asians and Latinos push their parents to acknowledge racism amid protests. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
Monuments, statues and a national reckoning on racial injustice. By Judy Woodruff / NPR
COVID-19 on the Rise in 29 States; Immigrant and Communities of Color Carry Brunt of Devastation. By Democracy Now
America’s segregated schools: We can’t live together until we learn together. By Stefan Lallinger / USA Today
Ben Crump has become the go-to attorney for racial justice: ‘I feel like I’m running out of time.’ By Karen Heller / Wash Post
How Recommendations Of An Obama Task Force Have, And Haven’t, Changed U.S. Policing. By Becky Sullivan / NPR
The State Department Was Designed to Keep African-Americans Out. By Christopher Richardson / NYT
The Black Female Battalion That Stood Up to a White Male Army. By Christina Brown Fisher / NYT
NASCAR’s Ray Ciccarelli or Bubba Wallace? Confederate flag ban shows the choice is clear. By David Smith / NBC News
