Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
In a year of Black Death, the movies showed us Black Life. By Ann Hornaday / Wash Post
Why Is Publishing So White? By Richard Jean So / NYT
Charley Pride, Trailblazing Country Music Star, Dies At 86. By Mark Kennedy / HuffPost
Deion Sanders is inspiring hope at Jackson State. But what happened at Prime Prep? By Candace Buckner / Wash Post
How will fans feel years after dropping the Redskins nickname? Miami (Ohio) provides a clue. By Chuck Culpepper / Wash Post
Rams players donate $750,000 to 25 nonprofits focused on social justice. By Gary Klein / LA Times
The Spiritual Tradition of Black Folk Finds Expression in the Candidacy of Raphael Warnock. By Otis Moss III / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (Dec 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured My church will replace our Black Lives Matter sign. Will America replace its racist myth? By William H. Lamar IV / Wash Post
Republicans want to steal this election for Trump — they just don’t know how. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Can Biden Break the Back of the White Supremacist Movement? By Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast
Biden Plans to Tap Lloyd Austin, Former Iraq Commander, as Defense Secretary. By Helene Cooper, Jonathan Martin and Eric Schmitt / NYT
Biden Plans To Tap Rep. Marcia Fudge As Housing Secretary, Tom Vilsack For USDA. By Franco Ordonez / NPR
Civil rights groups lay out priorities for Biden’s Justice Department. By Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico
Georgia’s Senate Race Is About White Identity Politics. By Michael Harriot / The Root
Harrison seen as front-runner to take over DNC at crucial moment. By Jonathan Easley / The Hill
Rashida Jones named next president of MSNBC. By Ahiza Garcia-Hodge / NBC News
President of Morehouse School of Medicine has life-and-death message for Black people about the coronavirus vaccine. By Lonnae O’Neal / The Undefeated
How remote learning is making educational inequities worse. By Hernan Galperin and Stephen Aguilar / The Conversation
Latinos get small slice of funding pie for minority colleges and universities. By Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News
Federal Investigators Join Probe Into Casey Goodson Shooting Death. By Brakkton Booker / NPR
The History of Seneca Falls You Didn’t Learn in School. By Olivia B. Waxman and video by Arpita Aneja / Time
New stamps honor Japanese American vets, Chinese American physicist. By Saloni Gajjar / NBC News
Southern history textbooks: A long history of deception. By Brian Lynn / Montgomery Advertiser
VMI removes statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson after long resistance. By Ian Shapiro / Wash Post
Review | Black America, White violence and generations of unhealed wounds. By Michael A. Fletcher / Wash Post
Reviving a Crop and an African-American Culture, Stalk by Stalk. By Kim Severson and Photographs by Rinne Allen / NYT
