Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
These families of missing Black people are frustrated with the lack of response to their cases. By Nicquel Terry Ellis / CNN
Blackness and Latinidad are not mutually exclusive. Here’s what it means to be Afro-Latino in America. By Amir Vera and Alexander Pineda / CNN
What slavery reparations from the federal government could look like. By P. R. Lockhart / NBC News
Louisiana state trooper charged in pummeling of Black man. By Jake Bleiberg and Jim Mustian / AP and Wash Post
In 1865, thousands of Black South Carolinians signed a 54-foot-long freedom petition. By Michael E. Ruane / Wash Post
Civil rights lessons from 1961 influence 2021. The fight is not over. By Nicole Carroll / USA Today
The Betrayal of Historically Black Colleges. By Katherine Mangan / The Chronicle of Higher Education
Monument honoring abolition of slavery unveiled in Virginia. By Christopher Brito / CBS News
Remembering Virginia’s ‘Forgotten 14.’ By A. Donald McEachin / Wash Post
National Cathedral replacing Confederate glass with racial justice imagery. By LI Cohen / CBS News
Historic Black cemetery buried below parking lot at center of legal dispute. By Erik Ortiz / NBC News
Bringing Black History to Life in the Great Outdoors. By James Edward Mills / NYT
The Latino family of Sylvia Mendez were pivotal in the desegregation fight. By Raul A. Reyes / NBC News
Woodie King Jr. finally gets a Tony Award for bringing color to the stage. By Jeremy Gerard / The Undefeated
Melvin Van Peebles wrote the do-it-yourself playbook for Black filmmakers. By Will Haygood / Wash Post
Metropolitan Opera season to open with first opera by Black composer. By AP and NBC News
Michael K. Williams died of accidental overdose, medical examiner says. By Sophie Reardon and Victoria Albert / CBS News
Afro-Latinas sing to the santos, the ancestors, and the culture. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
University suspends sorority over slide show critiquing Black football players’ features: ‘We abhor racism.’ By Jaclyn Peiser / Wash Post
A predominantly Black football team protested in a White Kentucky community. It worked out fine. By Steven Godfrey / Wash Post
D.C.-area attorney Tamika Tremaglio to replace Michele Roberts as National Basketball Players Association leader. By Ben Golliver / Wash Post
Deshaun Watson’s status remains muddled, and the NFL seems content to wait it out. By Candace Buckner / Wash Post
NBA Anti-Vaxxers Are Pushing Around the League–It’s Working. By Matt Sullivan / RollingStone
The ugly history behind those border agents chasing Haitian migrants on horseback. By Julia Craven / Slate
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 4) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Equity Report | Our America. ABC News
Manchin’s “Strategic Pause” Could Sink Biden’s Agenda. By Alex Shepard / TNR
