Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
I’m Darker Than My Daughter. Here’s Why It Matters. By Norma Newton / NYT
The Whitest thing I’ve ever seen. By Damon Young / Wash Post
Recovering the History of Black Showgirls in Las Vegas. Su Kim Chung / AAIHS
Erich Barnes, Star Defensive Back for the 1960s Giants, Dies at 86. By Richard Goldstein / NYT
‘We’re not done yet’: How Cynthia Marshall has helped transform the Mavericks. By Marc J. Spears / Andscape
HBCU lacrosse team accuses police of racial profiling in search of bus. By Timothy Bella / Wash Post
We must fight powerful bullies, whether they are Putin, Trump, or tech billionaires. By Robert Reich / The Guardian
Race Inquiry Digest (May 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Expert panel on the Buffalo shooter and what he stands for: “He was not a lone gunman.” By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Karine Jean-Pierre Is Named White House Press Secretary. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Michael D. Shear / NYT
Black and Latino Americans hopeful about student debt forgiveness. By Christina Corujo / CBS News
Behind the mask: How racism shaped attitudes on the pandemic. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Chris Smalls Of Amazon Labor Union Schools Senators On Union-Busting. By Dave Jamieson / HuffPost
How the U.S. Rental Market Is Failing People of Color. By Robert Davis / The Progressive
Man says culture of racism at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center led to wife’s death. By AP and NPR
Black Students in Illinois Are Far More Likely to Be Ticketed by Police for School Behavior Than White Students. By Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen / Propublica
Missing, murder: Why Native American women are victims at higher rates. By Nora Mabie and Derek Catron / USA Today
Nothing Beautiful Survives the Culture War. By Elizabeth Bruenig / The Atlantic
White evangelicals oppose abortion; all other religious groups support it. By Yonat Shimron / Religion News
How are Catholic hospitals addressing Black maternal health inequities? By Katie Collins Scott
The 1619 Project: Making space for long-ignored truths. By Tom Roberts / National Catholic Reporter
The Racist Song That Has Dug Deep Roots in American Culture. By Rick Bragg / NYT
How the Government Helped White Americans Steal Black Farmland. By Dania Francis, Darrick Hamilton, Thomas Mitchell, Nathan Rosenberg, Bryce Wilson Stucki / The New Republic
When the Nevada Supreme Court Tackled Racial Bias. By Randolph M. Fiedler & Jocelyn S. Murphy /AAIHS
Alabama church of ‘Bloody Sunday’ on endangered places list. By AP and NBC News
Racial justice coalition demands that Biden order study of reparations. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
How ‘Winning Time’ wrestles with Blackness will determine whether the HBO show has its own legacy. By Justin Tinsley / Andscape
