Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Floridians should scrap these retrograde, racist voting laws – Editorial Board / Wash Post
Warriors Derangement Syndrome. The NBA is on the verge of a collective nervous breakdown – Jack Hamilton / Slate
What Color Should My Child Be? A black woman asks about the ethics and the optics of choosing a white sperm donor – Carvel Wallace / Slate
Of Course the Christian Right Supports Trump – Michelle Goldberg / NYT
2020 Census To Keep Racial, Ethnic Categories Used In 2010 – Hansi Lo Wang / NPR
NAACP Sues Trump Administration Over Ending Protected Status For Haitians – James Doubek / NPR
Concerning Monuments – The Shaw Memorial : A Salute to the Soldiers of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment
Race Inquiry Digest (January 25) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Racism Represents an American Tradition. The nation’s first naturalization law, from 1790, closed off United States citizenship to all but “free…
Trump’s Racism Toward Haiti Is not an Aberration – Nia Imara / The Progressive
Are NFL owners making a mockery of the Rooney Rule? Les Carpenter / The Guardian
Nearly All District Attorneys Are White—And That’s a Huge Obstacle to Fighting Mass Incarceration – Liz Posner / AlterNet
Florida Will Vote on Restoring Voting Rights to 1.5 Million Ex-Felons – Ari Berman / Mother Jones
Black unemployment is at a record low. But there’s a lot more to the story – Lydia DePillis
Academic freedom in the age of Trump: Don’t joke about “white genocide” – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Watch : Systemic Racism And Air Pollution Create A Dangerous Reality For Black People / HuffPost
Medicaid is an effective, efficient program, highly valued by its beneficiaries. And yet, Republicans are relentlessly trying to cut it – Jared Bernstein and Hannah Katch / Wash Post
Yes, the census should be tracking race and ethnicity – Timothy P. Johnson and Roger Tourangeau / Wash Post
Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Racism Represents an American Tradition – Paul A. Kramer / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (January 22) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Shutdown: A familiar partisan ritual takes on new meaning in the Trump era. That conflict now pits the nativist impulses unleashed by Trump’s…
‘So You Want to Talk About Race,’ White People? Start Here – Erin Keane / Salon
The Fight for the Suburbs – Rachel M. Cohen / The Nation
Watch: It’s Time to End Mass Incarceration by Brave New Films / The Nation
How an Artist Learned About Freedom From ‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’ – Meredith Mendelsohn / NYT
“Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart”: An absorbing portrait of an activist’s soul – Melanie McFarland / Salon
How Puerto Ricans fit into an increasingly anti-immigrant U.S. – Yarimar Bonilla / Wash Post
White supremacists responsible for most extremist killings in 2017, ADL says – Sara Sidner / CNN
Why Do Republicans Hate America? Carol Anderson / HuffPost
‘Make it right’: Descendants of slaves demand restitution from Georgetown – Susan Svriuga / Wash Post
Shutdown: A familiar partisan ritual takes on new meaning in the Trump era – Karen Tumulty and Michael Scherer / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (January 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Yes, your ancestors probably did come here legally – because ‘illegal’ immigration is less than a century old. For the first century of…
