Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Wilkerson’s Caste examines quests to maintain power. By Leonard Pitts Jr / Miami Herald
Cornel West: Is America ‘even capable of treating the masses of Black people with decency and dignity’? By KK Ottesen / Wash Post
What is implicit bias? The invisible racism that hurts Black women at the doctor’s office. By Vidya Rao / Today
Civil rights protest, political demonstrations and fireworks: D.C. to host thousands amid coronavirus pandemic. By Marissa J. Lang / Wash Post
To narrow racial and economic disparities, Atlanta Fed chief Raphael Bostic is rethinking what the Fed’s mandate means. By Rachel Siegel / Wash Post
The Conservative Misdirection of the Affirmative Action Debate. By J. C. Pan / New Republic
Protestors Could Lose Voting Rights Under New Tennessee Law. By Ishena Robinson / The Root
Amid Debates About Memorials, Advocates Push To Remember Atlanta’s Forced Laborers. By Molly Samuel / NPR
The new Air Force chief wasn’t sure how to address George Floyd’s killing. Then he talked to his son. By Dan Lamothe / Wash Post
The Burden of Tim Scott. By Ben Terris / Wash Post Mag
The Black Freedom Struggle of the North. By Josua Clark Davis / AAIHS
Louisiana Supreme Court upholds Black man’s life sentence for stealing hedge clippers. By Kay Jones and Leah Asmelash / CNN
Lakers’ LeBron James talks Malcolm X and Donald Trump-Goodyear feud. By Mark Medina / USA Today
Here’s What Critics Are Saying About Tenet. By Marissa Martinelli / Slate
“A Change Is Gonna Come” Has a Long History in Politics. By Dan Adler / Vanity Fair
Barack Obama Delivers a Jeremiad. By David W. Blight / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Isabel Wilkerson, the author of “Caste,” speaks. An interview by Ezra Klein / Vox
Why women’s suffrage matters for Black people. By Angela P. Dodson / The Undefeated
2020 Is the Struggle Between Racial Liberalism and Racial Conservatism. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Donald Trump didn’t invent vote suppression — he’s just taking it to the next level. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
The Contours of Atlanta’s Policing Debate. Why most of the city’s Black council members shot down a proposal to defund the police. By George Chidi / The Intercept
“Racism may target Black people, but it damns a democracy and it damns humanity.” By Sean Illing / Vox
Residential segregation plays a role in coronavirus disparities, study finds. By Venessa Williams / Wash Post
What MLK and Malcolm X would do today. By Sean Illing / Vox
Postal Service cuts imperil ladder to middle class for many Black Americans. By Eleanor Mueller and Kelllie Mejdrich / Politico
Black babies more likely to live when treated by Black doctors: Study finds. By N’dea Yancey-Bragg / USA Today
