Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 2) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Trump has America staring down the barrel of a gun. By Leonard Pitts Jr. / Miami Herald
Trump Is Promising Four More Years of Strife. He can’t run on accomplishments. So he’s running on violence and fear. By William Saletan / Slate
Rayshard Brooks’ Funeral, MLK’s Daughter Gives Powerful Speech. By TMZ
Tamir Rice’s mother fights racism in America and police brutality. By Nicquel Terry Ellis / USA Today
Trump’s ‘Kung flu’ slur, pervasive scapegoating recall a brutal decades-old hate crime. By Claire Wang / NBC News
White Southerners, our souls are at stake. We must speak up now. By Joanna Adams / CNN
Young Asians and Latinos push their parents to acknowledge racism amid protests. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
Monuments, statues and a national reckoning on racial injustice. By Judy Woodruff / NPR
COVID-19 on the Rise in 29 States; Immigrant and Communities of Color Carry Brunt of Devastation. By Democracy Now
America’s segregated schools: We can’t live together until we learn together. By Stefan Lallinger / USA Today
Ben Crump has become the go-to attorney for racial justice: ‘I feel like I’m running out of time.’ By Karen Heller / Wash Post
How Recommendations Of An Obama Task Force Have, And Haven’t, Changed U.S. Policing. By Becky Sullivan / NPR
The State Department Was Designed to Keep African-Americans Out. By Christopher Richardson / NYT
The Black Female Battalion That Stood Up to a White Male Army. By Christina Brown Fisher / NYT
NASCAR’s Ray Ciccarelli or Bubba Wallace? Confederate flag ban shows the choice is clear. By David Smith / NBC News
LeBron James’s Business Partner Now Wants to Get Out the Vote. By David Gelles / NYT
2 Lawyers Of Color Face 45-Year Sentences — For Vandalism. By Samantha Storey / HuffPost
He’s 100, a renowned jazz musician and a survivor of Tulsa’s 1921 race massacre. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
People! Don’t be misled, bamboozled, hoodwinked, or led astray. Wear a mask!
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 29) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – White identity in America is ideology, not biology. The history of ‘whiteness’ proves it. By Nell Irvin Painter / NBC News
The Difference Between First-Degree Racism and Third-Degree Racism. By John Rice / The Atlantic
The US Needs to Be Treated Like the Racist Pariah State It Is. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
Why Is the G.O.P. Fighting to Preserve Monuments to Traitors in the Capitol? By The Editorial Board / NYT
Juneteenth and the Meaning of Freedom. Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
The Hidden History Of Juneteenth. By Gregory P. Downs / TPM
Donald Trump’s Empty Campaign Rally in Tulsa. By Eric Loch / The New Yorker
