Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
House Votes to Remove Confederate Statues From U.S. Capitol. By Catie Edmondson / NYT
Civil rights leaders plan August demonstration on steps of Lincoln Memorial. By Marissa J. Lang / Wash Post
250 Asian American and Pacific Islander elected officials, leaders announce Biden endorsement. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
Pentagon’s No. 2 Officer Says Military Must Do Better On Diversity. By Tom Bowman / NPR
‘Do you belong here?’: Lawsuits allege Hilton, other hotels discriminated against Black guests. By Chris Woodyard and David Oliver / USA Today
Mineola, Texas, removes a fence separating historically segregated cemeteries. By Alisha Ebrahimji / CNN
Where Lynching Terrorized Black Americans, Corporal Punishment In Schools Lives On. By Rebecca Klein / HuffPost
Viola Davis: “My Entire Life Has Been a Protest.” By Sonia Saraiya / Vanity Fair
Tracy McGrady and Jermaine O’Neal Have Been Talking. They’re Starting a Sports Agency. By Marc Stein / NYT
Chance the Rapper’s Art and Activism, and the Perils of Prison Reform. By David Remnick / The New Yorker Radio Hour
Will the MLB Confront Its Racist History? By Peter Dreier / Dissent
Black Lives Matter Protests Spawn Push for Athletes to Attend Historically Black Colleges. By Annika Hammerschlag / NYT
Bryan Stevenson on how America can heal. By Ezra Klein / Vox
Race Inquiry Digest (July 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Trump and the bitter American truth: “We do not have a real democracy.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
C.T. Vivian, Civil Rights Leader And Champion Of Nonviolent Action, Dies At 95. By Colin Dwyer / NPR
Who Were the Freedom Riders? By Derrick Bryson Taylor / NYT
We Need to Begin Again. In the midst of a moral reckoning, America needs a third founding. By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. / The Atlantic
What ruined Donald Trump? By Leonard Pitts / Salt Lake Tribune
Donald Trump has unified America – against him. By Robert Reich / The Guardian
Trump Financial Regulator Quietly Shelved Discrimination Probes Into Bank of America and Other Lenders. By Patrick Rucker / ProPublica
Pentagon Sidesteps Trump to Ban the Confederate Flag. By Helene Cooper / NYT
Joe Biden’s VP Could Be the Most Powerful Ever. By Christian Paz / The Atlantic
Jamaal Bowman Defeats 16-Term Rep. Engel In NY House Primary. By Ass. Press / TPM
Protests Continue Daily in Louisville. Here’s a Look at 45 Days of Marches. By K. K. Rebecca Lai / NYT
A black man accused of rape, a white officer in the Klan, and a 1936 lynching that went unpunished. By Michael S. Rosenwald / Wash Post
What is ‘Strike for Black Lives’ and when is it? By Jonathan Vanian / Fortune
