Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Race Inquiry Digest (Jan 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Joe Biden’s Looming War on White Supremacy. By Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic
Dr. John Gartner on Trump and terrorism: “If he can’t be president, he will make his force felt.” By Chauncey Devega / Salon
This is the America that Black people know. By Cori Bush / Wash Post
America in 2021: Racial Progress in the South, a White Mob in the Capitol. By Astead W. Herndon / NYT
The Inaction of Capitol Police Was by Design. By Kelllie Carter Jackson / The Atlantic
Unredacted FBI Document Sheds New Light on White Supremiacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement. By Alice Speri / The Intercept
A Black senator from Georgia. By Clyde McGrady / Wash Post
Don’t celebrate blue Georgia yet. The ‘old’ Georgia stubbornly endures. By Tammy Joyner / Wash Post
We Need a Second Great Migration. Georgia illuminates the path to Black power. It lies in the South. Follow me there. By Charles Blow / NYT
Mortality rate for Black babies is cut dramatically when they’re delivered by Black doctors, researchers say. By Tonya Russell / Wash Post
Charles Blow on the greatest threat to our democracy: White supremacy. By Robbyn Mc Fadden / CBS News Video
I Desegregated the University of Georgia. History Is Still in the Making. By Charlayne Hunter-Gault / NYT
Preserving New York’s Ties to the Underground Railroad. By John Freeman Gill / NYT
I Spent 35 Years Trying To Convince The World (And Myself) That I’m White. By Leah Olson / HuffPost
Crisis Behind the All-White Best Children’s Album Category. By Samantha Hissong / Rolling Stone
WNBA players helped oust Kelly Loeffler from the Senate. Will she last in the league? By Candace Buckner / Wash Post
Mike Tomlin Reaches Another N.F.L. Postseason With Fewer Black Peers. By Jonathan Abrams / NYT
It’s time for golf to make a break with Trump. By Barry Svrluga / Wash Post
The American Abyss. A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next. By Timothy Snyder / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Jan 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Thoroughly Respectable Capitol Rioters. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Democrat Jon Ossoff Has Defeated Republican David Perdue, Giving Democrats A Stunning Sweep Across Georgia’s Senate Races. By Ryan Brooks / BuzzFeed News
The other Georgia slugfest: A Brian Kemp-Stacey Abrams rematch. By Andrew Desiderio / Politico
A leading historian of U.S. democracy issues an urgent warning. By Greg Sargent / Wash Post
DOJ asks White House if it can undo some civil rights protections. By Paul LeBlanc / CNN
The reality of being Black in America isn’t changing fast enough. By Etan Thomas / The Undefeated
The year of reckoning: How 2020 revealed the fault lines in American policing, and what we can expect next. By Majlie de Puy Kamp / CNN
