Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Justice Clarence Thomas has found his moment. By Joan Biskupic / CNN
Little Richard dead at 87: The rock and roll king who scared — and changed — America.By Jeff Slate / NBC News
LeVar Burton Reads. The Best Short Fiction, Hanpicked by the Best Voice In Podcasting
True Crime In Indian Country: “Yellow Bird” Belongs On Your Quarantine Reading List. By Becca Andrews / Mother Jones
‘The Eddy’: How Damien Chazelle and André Holland captured the bustling Paris jazz scene. By Sonio Rao / Wash Post
Laura Harrier on Rewriting Hollywood in Netflix’s ‘Hollywood.’ By Candice Frederick / NYT
What Was Saved. Sarah Broom’s New Orleans saga. By Lovia Gyarkye / The Nation
The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest (May 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – We must confront the inconsistent laws that allow black lives to be taken with impunity. By Sherrilyn Ifill / Wash Post
Will Americans Lose Their Right to Vote in the Pandemic? By Emily Bazelon / NYT Mag
Black communities account for disproportionate number of Covid-19 deaths in the US, study finds. By Shelby Lin Erdman / CNN
People of color, women shoulder front-line work during pandemic. By Associated Press / NBC News
Covid-19’s Race and Class Warfare. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
We Asked 30,000 Black Americans What They Need to Survive. Here’s What They Said. By Alicia Garza / Time
When Maternity Wards in Black Neighborhoods Disappear. By Kelly Glass / NYT
Navajo Nation Suffers Third-Highest COVID-19 Infection Rate in U.S. with Limited Healthcare & Water. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Hate crimes and history: Asian American leaders discuss racism during the pandemic. By Julian Shen-Berro / NBC News
‘Dying of whiteness’ during the coronavirus pandemic. By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post Podcast
Larry Wilmore: Trump ‘Was a Lock’ Before the Coronavirus. By Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast Podcast
Ida B. Wells Awarded Posthumous Pulitzer Prize For Lynching Investigations. By Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost
Nikole Hannah-Jones Wins Pulitzer Prize for 1619 Project. By Jeff Barrus / Pulitzer Center
Colson Whitehead wins the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Nickel Boys. By Constance Grady / Vox
Here’s what happened to the $2 million Michael Jordan donated in 2016. By Martenzie Johnson / The Undefeated
Why Biden’s Choice of Running Mate Has Momentous Implications. By Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (May 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
America Needs Economic Rights. Now Is the Time to Push for Them. By Andrea Flynn and Susan R. Holmberg / The Nation
