Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Fighting Rent-to-Own Racism This Christmas. By Aaron Ross Coleman / NYT
White Identity Politics Aren’t Going Anywhere. By Thomas B Edsall / NYT
The Enduring Russian Propaganda Interests in Targeting African-Americans. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Race Inquiry Digest (December 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – We Are All Riders on the Same Planet. Seen from space 50 years ago, Earth appeared as a gift to preserve and cherish. What…
It’s time to face the facts: Racism is a national security issue. By Gwen Ifill / Wash Post
Russia and Republicans attempt to suppress black vote, but Russians are slicker. By Joe Davidson / Wash Post
Senate Passes Bipartisan Criminal Justice Bill. By Nicholas Fandos / NYT
Meet New York’s Letitia James: Why Donald Trump’s worst legal nightmare is not Robert Mueller. By Alex Henderson / AlterNet
The Quiet Crisis Killing Black Women. By Mellissa Jeltsen / HuffPost
The State Where Black Women Are Twice as Likely to Die of Cervical Cancer as White Women. By Michelle Chen / HuffPost
What was Michelle Obama thinking after Trump’s inauguration? ‘Bye, Felicia.’ By Allyson Chiu / Wash
Steven Spielberg on Storytelling’s Power to Fight Hate. By Adam Popescu / NYT
Roma Is Only the Latest Movie From a Latin American Director About His Family’s Domestic Worker. By Inkoo Kang / Slate
58 Jazz Giants in One Immortal Image. By John Leland / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (December 24) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Enduring Russian Propaganda Interests in Targeting African-Americans. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Overlooked No More: Elizabeth Keckly, Dressmaker and Confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln. By Nancy Wartik / NYT
What Makes Jeremy O. Harris’ ‘Slave Play’ Such a Powerful Play About Racism. By Tim Teeman / The Daily Beast
The Politics of Memory in Barry Jenkins’s “If Beale Street Could Talk.” By Richard Brody / The New Yorker
Remembering Rosanell Eaton, An Outspoken Advocate for Voting Rights. By Leslie Ovalle / NPR
Writing ‘BlacKkKlansman’ was an exploration of ‘twoness.’ By Kevin Willmott / LA Times
The Rise of Right-Wing Extremism and How U.S. Law Enforcement Ignored it. By Michael Barbaro, Ike Sriskandarajah, and Larissa Anderson / NYT
Oldest Institution of Southern Baptist Convention Reveals Past Ties to Slavery. By Adeel Hassan / NYT
After the DNA debacle, Elizabeth Warren’s outreach to minority communities makes a pivot. By Eugene Scott / Wash Post
Congress will have more Latino members than ever before. By Luis Alonso Lugo / Associated Press
HBCU Bennett College Could Close If It Can’t Raise $5 Million By February. By Ashleigh Atwell / Blavity
The Best Black History Books of 2018 by AAAIHS Editors
Race Inquiry Digest (December 20) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – 58 Jazz Giants in One Immortal Image. By John Leland / NYT
How activists are fighting racial disparities in school discipline. Mark R. Warren / The Conversation
I’m for Affirmative Action. Can You Change My Mind? Gary Gutting / NYT
The overlooked heroes of the civil rights movement. Remembering Howard Thurman and other forgotten activists. David B. Gowler / Wash Post
