Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Why empathy is the key to dismantling white racism. By Susan Lanzoni / Wash Post
U.S. Hate Groups Rose 30 Percent In Recent Years, Watchdog Group Reports. By Leila Fadel / NPR
Arrested Coast Guard Officer Allegedly Planned Attack ‘On A Scale Rarely Seen.’ By Greg Myre / NPR
2020 Democrats Embrace Race-Conscious Policies, Including Reparations. By Astead W. Herndon / NYT
Defying US Borders, Native Americans Are Asserting Their Territorial Rights. By Michelle Chen / The Nation
Opioids claiming more African-American lives as overdoses spread from Rust Belt to East Coast. By Corky Siemaszko / NBC News
Why Does Obama Scold Black Boys? By Derecka Purnell / NYT
Ole Miss Basketball Players Kneel During National Anthem as Pro-Confederacy Groups Hold Rally On Campus. By Nick Greene / Slate
When hair breaks rules: Some black children are getting in trouble for natural hairstyles. By Janelle Griffith / NPR
Jeremy Lin: ‘There’s definitely some bittersweetness to my career.’ By Cary Chow / The Undefeated
Overlooked No More: Dorothy Bolden, Who Started a Movement for Domestic Workers. NYT Obituraries
Democrats welcome an increasingly diverse America; Republicans aren’t so sure. By Matthew Yglesias / Vox
Race Inquiry Digest (February 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Deepening ‘Racialization’ of American Politics. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Rediscovering the lives of the enslaved people who freed themselves. By Mary Niall Mitchell ,Joshua D. Rothman, Edward E. Baptist, Vanessa Holden and Hasan Kwame Jeffries / Wash Post
What we get wrong about the roots of slavery in America. By Eric Herschthal / Wash Post
Frederick Douglass’s Original New York Times Obituary From 1895
Trump keeps warning of a coup. But the only one in American history was a bloody, racist uprising. By Isaac Stanley-Becker / Wash Post
Why Are We Still Segregating Black History in February? By Christina Proenza-Coles / The Daily Beast
The Missing Black Millennial. By Reniqua Allen / The New Republic
New York City to Ban Discrimination Based on Hair. By Stacey Stowe / NYT
Black candidates know they have to be careful in talking about race. Here’s what the research suggests. By Christopher T. Stout / Wash Post
When Does Kicking Black People Off Juries Cross a Constitutional Line? By Adam Liptak / NYT
When black students are beaten in school — and black educators are to blame. By Stacey Patton / Wash Post
For a Black Mathematician, What It’s Like to Be the ‘Only One.’ By Amy Harmon / NYT
What it Really Means to Be Indian. By Mark Anthony Rolo / The Progressive
Race Inquiry Digest (February 25) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Democrats welcome an increasingly diverse America; Republicans aren’t so sure. By Matthew Yglesias / Vox
