Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis – Linda Villarosa / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (April 12) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Walter Mondale: The Civil Rights Law We Ignored. Fifty years ago on April 11, Congress enacted the Fair Housing Act, the last of…
HUD Long Neglected These Residents. Now As They Move Out, Some Feel HUD Let Them Down Again – Molly Parker / ProPublica
Kept Out : For people of color, banks are shutting the door to homeownership – Aaron Glantz and Emmanuel Martinez / RevealNews
Joan Baez Reveals ‘Surprise Dimension’ of New ‘Civil War’ Video – Jon Bilstein / Rolling Stone
The Radicalization of American Football – Louisa Thomas / The Atlantic
Freedom for Every Citizen: The missed opportunity of the Kerner Report – William P. Jones / The Nation
California’s Higher Ed Diversity Problem – Claudio Sanchez / NPR
The preacher who used Christianity to revive the Ku Klux Klan – DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
Democrats Shouldn’t Give in to White Racism – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
After MLK’s Death, Coretta Scott King Went To Memphis To Finish His Work – Debbie Elliott / NPR
Black And Latino Children Are Often Overlooked When It Comes To Autism – Casey Rentz / NPR
Walter Mondale: The Civil Rights Law We Ignored / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (April 9) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – King’s Death Gave Birth to Hip-Hop. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. led directly to hip-hop, an era of black American culture,…
Can it Happen Here? Review: Urgent studies in rise of authoritarian America – Charles Kaiser / The Guardian
Zora Neale Hurston: Black Feminist Icon and Thought Criminal – Gil Troy / The Daily Beast
Elgin Baylor holds back tears during statue ceremony – Jason Reid / The Undefeated
If taxes aren’t working, will desperate Republicans keep turning to race-based attacks? Tara Golshan / Vox
‘Implicit Bias’ Is Very Real and It Infects Every One of Us – Sally Kohn / Mother Jones
America’s Federally Financed Ghettos – The Editorial Board / NYT
Betsy DeVos shouldn’t roll back guidance on racial discipline disparities – Editorial Board / Wash Post
The Untapped Potential of the Asian Voter – Saahil Desai / Wash Monthly
A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law by Sherrilyn Ifill, Lorretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson and Anthony C. Thompson
A no-holds-barred, red-hot discussion of race in America today from some of the leading names in the field, including the bestselling author of Just Mercy,…
King’s Death Gave Birth to Hip-Hop – Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest (April 5) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – ‘The Blood of Lynching Victims Is in This Soil.’ By preserving soil from sites where blacks died from lynchings, a museum aims to help…
Barack Obama Sits Down With John Lewis to Discuss MLK’s Legacy and the Power of Activism – Inae Oh / Mother Jones
Winnie Mandela was always influential, often controversial, but vital to freedom’s cause – Sam Fulwood III / ThinkProgress
‘Martin Luther King Jr.’s Unfinished Work on Earth Must Truly Be Our Own’ – Benjamin E. Mays / The Atlantic
Secret use of census info helped send Japanese Americans to internment camps in WWII – Lori Aratani / Wash Post
Stephon Clark: Rhythms of Tragedy – Charles M. Blow / NYT
