Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
African American Scientist Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett leads the way on COVID-19 vaccine trials. By Janell Ross / NBC News
Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 16) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Stop Blaming Black People for Dying of the Coronavirus. By Ibram X. Kendi / The Atlantic
SCOTUS Just Set the Stage for Republicans to Steal the Election. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
How the Coronavirus Pandemic Intensifies the Fight Over Voting Rights. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Covid-19 is ravaging black communities. A Milwaukee neighborhood is figuring out how to fight back. By Robert Samuels / Wash Post
Black America must wake up to this viral threat. By Van Jones / CNN
Social Distancing Is a Privilege. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Deaths of Inequality: AOC on Black and Latinx Communities at Epicenter of Epicenter of the Pandemic. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
The Coronavirus Pandemic Shows America’s Prison System Is ‘Inhumane.’ By Rebekah Sager / HuffPost
The CDC must end its silence on the racial impact of covid-19. By Spencer Overton / Wash Post
Mississippi governor takes break from pandemic to declare “Confederate Heritage Month.” By Igor Derysh / Salon
Asian Americans use social media to drown out bigotry. By Associated Press / NBC News
White Supremacy’s Gateway to the American Mind. By Ava Kaufman, Moira Weigel and Francis Tseng / The Atlantic
Earl G. Graves Sr., founder of Black Enterprise, dies. By Leah Asmelash / CNN
LeBron’s New Documentary Tells The Story Of His I Promise School In Akron. By Jessie Washington / The Undefeated
Relive the night Buster Douglas shocked the world by knocking out Mike Tyson. By USA Today
Three Important Interviews on Pandemic Racism. By Jeremy Scahill / The Intercept Podcast
Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 13) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – African American Scientist Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett leads the way on COVID-19 vaccine trials. By Janell Ross / NBC News
Detroit, still clawing back from financial crisis, reels as coronavirus claims lives. By Erin Einhorn / NBC News
The Myth Of Black Immunity: Racialized Disease During The COVID-19 Pandemic. By Chelsey Carter And Ezelle Sanford III / AAIHS
The Economic Crash Is Going To Be Particularly Awful For Women And People Of Color. By Kara Voght / Mother Jones
The Real Epidemic is Poverty. By Rev. Dr. William Barber II / The Progressive
Our Right to Vote in November is in Real Danger – But it Can Still be Saved. By Doug Gordon / Newsweek
Investigative reporter Robert Evans: “We’re on the edge of an authoritarian nightmare.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Black Bourgeois: A New Book About The Dilemma Of Black Middle-Class Embodiment In The Post-Civil Rights Era. By AAIHS Editors
Andrew Yang was wrong. Showing our ‘Americanness’ is not how Asian-Americans stop racism. By Canwen Xu / Wash Post
