Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
It’s hard to believe, but things are getting better. They will continue to if we keep up the fight. By Robert Reich / The Guardian
Race Inquiry Digest (Jan 9) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Historic House speaker election highlighted matters of race and representation. By Juma Sei / NPR
How a Perfectly Normal New York Suburb Elected a Con Man. By Steve Israel / The Atlantic
Democrats, Feeling New Strength, Plan to Go on Offense on Voting Rights. By Reid J. Epstein / NYT
Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney are the Jan. 6 committee’s unusual dynamic duo. By Eugene Robinson / Wash Post
Kamala Harris, a Very Turbulent Year in America, and the Challenge of Being First. By Molly Jong-Fast / Vanity Fair
Georgia shows the growing power of Asian American voters. By Li Zhou / Vox
Why Are So Many Black Men Shot in New Haven? By Nicholas Dawidoff / The Atlantic
COVID death data hides true toll on Black, Hispanic, Indigenous people. By Betsy Ladyzhets, Shaena Montanari, and Rachel Monahan / USA Today
‘The weight of being a Black student feels so heavy right now.’ By Emily Davies / Wash Post
How Black activists in Northern Virginia transformed the way children learn to read. By Sarah Carr / Wash Post
Race, Religion, and The History Behind ‘Heathen.’ By Hayley Madi / AAIHS
White House Wishes Black Families A Happy Kwanzaa On Holiday’s First Day. By Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost
Republicans will “get crushed”: Evangelicals sour on “elementary schoolchild” Trump’s 2024 bid. By Maya Boddie / Alternet
Was the Civil War Inevitable? By David W. Blight / NYT
Yale Creates Scholarship for HBCUs As Slavery Reparations. By Nicole Duncan-Smith / Atlanta Black Star
Whoopi Goldberg again claims Holocaust wasn’t originally about race. By Ll Cohen / CBS News
This is the year we were done with Kanye West – but what does that really mean? By Melanie McFarland / Salon
Kendrick Lamar’s New Chapter: Raw, Intimate and Unconstrained. By Mitchell S. Jackson / NYT
A Jazz Album Made to Last. By Nathan Heller / The New Yorker
How Megan Thee Stallion’s court battle highlights misogyny targeting Black women. By Lauren Barron-Lopez / PBS
‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ fact check: Whitney Houston’s true story. By Melissa Ruggleri / USA Today
A pioneering Black author’s novel takes us to a Wakanda-like civilization. By Michael Dirda / Wash Post
The luxury tax assessed on Black women. By Channing Hargrove / Andscape
Roberto Clemente remains Latino legend 50 years after death. By Associated Press
How David Fizdale went from the NBA sidelines to the Utah Jazz’s front office. By Marc J. Spears / Andscape
