Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Louisville, Ky., agrees to ‘substantial’ settlement in Breonna Taylor shooting. By Andrew Wolfson, Darcy Costello and Tessa Duvall / USA Today
Andrew Gillum’s complicated, reluctant coming out story. By Christina Cauterucci / Slate
Janelle Monáe’s Film ‘Antebellum’ Shows the Horrors of Systemic Racism and White Supremacy. By H. Alan Scott / Newsweek
The Patti LaBelle vs. Gladys Knight ‘Verzuz’ was made special by the music and our memories. By Mikki Kendall / NBC News
U.S. Open women’s final features Naomi Osaka’s masks, Black hair and a bold cultural statement. By Robyn Autry / NBC News
Colin Kaepernick Calls Out Hypocrisy In NFL’s Racial Justice ‘Propaganda.’ By Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost
Racism Is Not a Historical Footnote. By Bill Russell / The Players Tribune
Race Inquiry Digest (Sept 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – How Jewish history and the Holocaust fueled Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s quest for justice. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
Trump’s White House says critical race theory is anti-American. Here’s the truth. By Laura Gomez / NBC News
Donald Trump relishes his role as a divider as he vows to be “vicious.” By Maeve Reston / CNN
Trump’s Fear of Black Competence. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
NPR Poll Finds Pandemic Financially Imperils Nearly Half of American Households. By Yuki Noguchi / NPR
Faces of Power: 80% Are White, Even as U.S. Becomes More Diverse. By Denise Lu, Jon Huang, Ashwin Seshagiri, Haeyoun Park and Troy Griggs / NYT
How Kamala Harris’s Immigrant Parents Found a Home, and Each Other, in a Black Study Group. By Ellen Barry / NYT
“What Kind of Society Are We Building?”: Durham DA Satana Deberry on Prosecuting Like a Progressive. By Jamilah King / Mother Jones
We Need to Recruit More Black Americans in Vaccine Trials. By Wayne A. I. Frederick, Valerie Montgomery Rice, David M. Carlisle and James E. K. Hildreth / NYT
A Pattern of Resistance: The Tuskegee Airmen on Trial, Part 1. By Michael Hankins / Smithsonian
Revisiting Lerone Bennett Jr.’s ‘Forced Into Glory.’ By E. James West / AAIHS
I Look White To Many. I’m Black. This Is What White People Say To Me. By Cheryl Green Rosario / HuffPost
The Oscars just made its most visible move toward diversity yet. By Sonia Rao / Wash Post
Naomi Osaka made sure Black lives mattered at the US Open. By Soraya Nadia McDonald / The Undefeated
Kansas City Chiefs fans booed players during a moment of unity against racism. By Allen Kim / CNN
‘This Is Not the Time for Tiptoeing.’ How British Vogue‘s Edward Enninful Is Shaking Up the Fashion World. By Diana Evans / Time
The history of Black voter suppression — and the fight for the right to vote. By LaTosha Brown / NBC News Video
Race Inquiry Digest (Sept 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Racism Is Not a Historical Footnote. By Bill Russell / The Players Tribune
Black women are dying in childbirth. Race plays into maternal health care. By Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy / Rockland/ Westchester News
