Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
He Played With Charlie Parker. For $15 He’ll Play With You. By Sheila Mclear / NYT
The State Of Diversity And Inclusion In NBA Front Offices. By Marc J. Spears / The Undefeated
The First African American Woman To Obtain A Graduate Degree In Physics Was Involved In A Top Secret US Mission. By Anna Powers / Forbes
Russia Trying to Stoke U.S. Racial Tensions Before Election, Officials Say. By Julian E. Barnes and Adam Goldman / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 16) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Prayer Will Not Stop the Coronavirus. By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove / The Nation
With Coronavirus, ‘Health Care for Some’ Is a Recipe for Disaster. By The Editorial Board / NYT
Black voters know what they want. On Tuesday, it was Joe Biden. Here’s why. By Janell Ross and Dartunorro Clark / NBC News
America’s black billionaires have no place in a Bernie Sanders world. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post
How Working-Class Life Is Killing Americans, in Charts. By David leonhardt and Stuart A. Thompson / NYT
The Candidate Fighting To Save Coal Country From Mitch McConnell. By Travis Waldron / HuffPost
The new Census algorithm is wiping out cities’ populations and miscounting minorities, experts warn. By Igor Derysh / Salon
Trump’s DOJ Has Not Filed A Single New Voting Rights Act Case. By Tierney Sneed / Talkinpointsmemo
Slavery: new digital tools show how important slave trade was to Liverpool’s development. By Nicholas Radburn and David Eltis / The Conversation
Virginia Confederate monuments: ‘We’re going to hold hands on this journey as brothers and sisters.’ By Laura Vozzella / Wash Post
Declaring lynching a crime is empty symbolism. By Stacey Patton / Wash Post
Birmingham’s ‘Fifth Girl.’ By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
McCoy Tyner, Groundbreaking Pianist Of 20th Century Jazz, Dies At 81. By Nate Chinen / NPR
Black students say they are being penalized for their hair, and experts say every student is worse off because of it. By Leah Asmelash / CNN
Editor: RID veers into absurdity. Got a medical question? Ask Dr. Trump! By Dana Milbank / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 12) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Russia Trying to Stoke U.S. Racial Tensions Before Election, Officials Say. By Julian E. Barnes and Adam Goldman / NYT
Latinos boosted Sanders on Super Tuesday. A lesson for the Biden campaign? By Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News
“Voter suppression, plain and simple”: Texas closed hundreds of polling sites in black, Latino areas. By Igor Derysh / Salon
A new report shows freedom is declining in established democracies — including ours. By Max Boot / Wash Post
Miranda’s rebellion: The reckonings of one of the South’s white suburban women, whose loyalty is key to whether Trump is reelected. By Stephanie McCrummen / Wash Post
Trump Has His Sights Set on Black Voters. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Charlottesville will celebrate the end of slavery as an official holiday instead of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday. By Alaa Elassar / CNN
