Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 24) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Trump’s Power Feeds on White Demographic Fears. By James Risen / The Intercept
Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal. By David Brooks / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 19) – The Week’s Top Stories
The Weekend Edition of Race Inquiry Digest features the top stories from the two previous Digests published during the week. Click here for earlier Digests.
Trump’s Lust for Power Cannot Be Satiated. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Trump Is Selling Jews a Dangerous Lie. By Michael S. Roth / NYT
American corporations didn’t want to diversify, anyway. By Adam Harris / The Guardian
White House Confirms Trump Is Exploring Ways To ‘Deport’ U.S. Citizens. By Sara Buboltz / HuffPost
Another Group the Democrats Should Stop Taking for Granted. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
When Trump Is Done, What Will Remain of Public Education? By Adam Harris / NYT
Fed work helped build Black wealth in this suburb. Now families worry. By Michael Brice-Saddler and Lateshia Beachum / Wash Post
Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said she will enter the 2026 governor’s race. By Makayla Richards / 11 Alive
More Black babies are dying than white infants. Scientists are blaming healthcare inequality. By Julia Musto / Independent
Trump and Netanyahu Steer Toward an Ugly World, Together. By Thomas L. Freidman / NYT
“Terrifying”: Poorest Countries & Global Working Class Face Worst Impacts of Trump’s Tariffs. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
How South Korea’s Democracy Prevailed Over a Reckless Leader. By Choe Sang-Hun / NYT
“The Most Important Spiritual Discovery Of All Time.” By Tom Rapsas / Patheos
Wrapped In the Flag, Waving the Cross. By Isabel Rodriguez / The Progressive
Religion or Ethnicity 3 – Untangling Critical Race Theory. By Paul Thompson / Patheos
As an African American Latter-day Saint, here’s my advice to rooting out racism. By Mauli Junior Bonner / The Salt Lake Tribune
Donald Trump’s War on History. By David Corn / Mother Jones
Former FIU Professor Teaches Black History Under A Tree. By Zack Linly / Newsone
The Kids Who Got Bused—And Became Democrats. By Jerusalem Demsas / The Atlantic
American liberators of Nazi camps got ‘a lifelong vaccine against extremism’ − their wartime experiences are a warning for today. By Sara J. Brenneis / The Conversation
America Has Gotten Coretta Scott King Wrong. By Jeanne Theoharis / The Atlantic
At James Earl Jones Memorial, Friends Share Laughs, Tears and Moving Stories. By Derrick Bryson Taylor / NYT
What came after the Florida Gators’ national title win is what has people talking. By Sam Brock / NBC News
Why the ‘Tiger Woods Effect’ failed to reshape the PGA Tour. By Michael Lee / Wash Post
Fifty years later, Frank Robinson’s managerial debut still matters to those who were there. By Justice B. Hill / Andscape
Pirates apologize for replacing Roberto Clemente signage with alcohol ad. By Des Bieler / Wash Post
Black Americans Are Not Surprised. By Christina Greer / NYT (Image by NPR)
Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured America, This Is an Old and Brutal Tyranny. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT