Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured GOP state attorneys general shift affirmative action battle lines to the workplace. By Wyatte Grantham-Phillips and Geoff Mulvhill / PBS
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 13) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Supreme Court didn’t end affirmative action for white people. By Fabiola Cineas / Vox
The Supreme Court Made It Even Harder to Close the Racial Wealth Gap. By Hannah Levintova / Mother Jones
Supreme Court backtracked on Black death row inmates’ racial bias claims, liberal justices say. By Lawrence Hurley / NBC News
Medical schools will be even less diverse after affirmative action ruling, experts say. By Char Adams / NBC News
Asian American low-income, community college students feel unheard in affirmative action debate. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
HBCUs With More Black Students Than All 8 Ivy League Schools Combined. By Shaun Harper / Forbes
The evidence mounts: Hispanic voters are drifting toward the GOP. By Ruy Teixeira / Wash Post
‘Unabashed’: Justice Jackson marks her first year on the Supreme Court unafraid to stake her own position. By Lawrence Hurley / NBC News
Federal Judge Blocks Florida GOP Attack On Voter Registration Groups. By Liza Hearon / HuffPost
His friends believed he could have been the next MLK. A bullet took his life. By Suzette Hackney / USA Today
Judge awards Black church $1 million after BLM banner burned by Proud Boys during protest. By AP and RNS
UCC elects first woman — and first woman of African descent — to lead denomination. By Emily McFarlan Miller / RNS
How my Catholic faith and Mohawk heritage teach me to embrace sustainable living. By Shauna’h Fuegen / NCR
As a Rabbi, I’ve Had a Privileged View of the Human Condition. By David Wolpe / NYT
Frederick Douglass Knew What False Patriotism Was. By Esau McCaulley / NYT
The Paragraph On Slavery That Never Made It Into The Declaration Of Independence. By Ben Railton / TPM
How an enslaved genius saved the Capitol dome’s ‘Freedom’ statue. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
Florida Black History and the Horrors of Slavery Not Taught in Schools. By Jess Nelson / Miami New Times
Black-owned banks, born out of post-slavery economic barriers, seek to address racial wealth gap. By Osej Serratos, Morgan Norwood, and Allie Weintraub / ABC News
On the Anniversary of ‘The Fire Next Time.’ By David Shih / The Progressive
Remembering Louis Armstrong. By CBS News
Hockey Diversity Alliance’s Akim Aliu: NHL ‘late’ on inclusion. By AP and ESPN
Venus Williams won the fight for equal prize money – that is her greatest Wimbledon legacy. By Charlie Eccleshare / The Athletic
Commanders President Jason Wright expected to be retained after sale. By Nicki Jhabvala and Mark Maske / Wash Post
Harvard legacy admissions lawsuit follows affirmative action Supreme Court ruling. By Collin Bindley / AP and Fortune.
