Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Amiri Baraka, Black Music, and Black Modernity. By Wilton Schereka / AAIHS
Reggaeton needed a racial reckoning. Afro-Latinos are leading it. By Bethonie Butler / Wash Post
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: Chadwick Boseman’s last movie shows he was just getting started. By Karen Han / Slate
“Between the World and Me” transforms a father’s letter to his son into a chorus for a people. By Melanie McFarland / Salon
Latinos, Long Dismissed in Hollywood, Push to Make Voices Heard. By Nicole Sperling / NYT
‘I Told You So!’: Lonzo and LaMelo Ball Have Made NBA Draft history, and Some Say It’s Time to Give Dad LaVar His Due Credit. By Isheka N. Harrison / Atlanta Black Star
Pope Francis hosts NBA players after season defined by social justice activism. By Chico Harlan / Wash Post
A Quarterback With N.F.L. Potential Pledges to an H.B.C.U., Joining a Trend. By David Waldstein / NYT
“Trump is Gone.” By The Comedy Quartet / YouTube
Race Inquiry Digest (Nov 30) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Is American Healing Even Possible? By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
Why Black Men and Women Vote So Differently. By Leah Wright Rigueur / The Atlantic
Trump is trying to disenfranchise Black voters. The GOP isn’t stopping him. By Eugene Robinson / Wash Post
Make fun of the “Million MAGA March” all you want — white supremacy has not been defeated. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
COVID-19: As pandemic worsens, political partisanship deepens. By Alia E. Dastagir / USA Today
Culture wars fuel Trump’s blue-collar Latino gains. By Marc Caputo / Politico
Stacey Abrams On Flipping Georgia Blue in the 2020 Election. By Rebecca Traister / New York Mag
Black Lives Matter activists strike back at Dems slamming ‘defund the police.’ By Laura Barron-Lopez and Holly Gtterbein / Politico
Black businesses are fighting for their lives. We can’t afford to lose them. By Michelle Singletary / Wash Post
Black Farmers Have Been Robbed of Land. A New Bill Would Give Them a “Quantum Leap” Toward Justice. By Tom Philpot / Mother Jones
Supervision, once intended to help offenders, ups mass incarceration. By Miriam Aroni Krinsky and Vincent Schiraldi / USA Today
The Black Native American descendants fighting for the right to belong. By Claire Tighe / NBC News
UC Berkeley removed the names of ‘racist’ figures from two of its buildings. By Christina Zdanowicz / CNN
Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America. By Kerri Greenidge / NYT
St. Mary’s College of Maryland unveils memorial to enslaved people on its campus. By Joe Heim / Wash Post
20/20 Breonna Taylor story: 5 things to watch from ABC/Courier Journal. By Tessa Duvall / Courier Journal
Poet Nikki Giovanni shares her wisdom about Biden, cowardly racism, and why love is a pineapple. By D. Watkins / Salon
