Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Does Anyone Have a Clue About How to Fight Back Against Trump’s Racism? By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 2) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – How William Barber II Uses His Faith to Fight for Justice. By Mary C. Curtis / Time
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder of the Civil Rights Era – By Jerry Mitchell
A black lawmaker’s anti-lynching bill failed 120 years ago. Now, the House may finally act. By Meagan Flynn / Wash Post
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre will soon be a part of the curriculum for Oklahoma schools. By Christina Maxouris / CNN
If Progressives Want to Win, They’ll Have to Talk About White Supremacy. By Steve Phillips / The Nation
What It Means to Be Black in America. Six short films for Black History Month. By Maris Curan / NYT
Groveland Four, the black men pardoned after 1949 rape accusation, honored with memorial. By Erij Ortiz / NBC News
Malcolm X’s Daughter Ilyasah Shabazz on Her Father’s Legacy & the New Series “Who Killed Malcolm X?” By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Police, Prosecutors, and Republicans Are Looking to Undo a Criminal Justice Reform in New York. By Nick Pinto / The Intercept
How Young Latinos Delivered Nevada to Bernie. By Aida Chavez / The Intercept
Bloomberg and Obama: A more ‘complicated’ relationship than the ads suggest. By Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News
Florida’s Voting-Rights Fight Could Tip the 2020 Election. By The Editorial Board / NYT
Stacey Abrams Spearheads ‘Fair Fight,’ A Campaign Against Voter Suppression. By Debbie Elliott / NPR
McDonald’s in the Post–Civil Rights Era, with Marcia Chatelain. By Christian Hosam / Dissent
What Happens When White Women Become The Face Of Diversity. By Maryann Reid / Forbes
Detroit Residents Sue City After Tax Rates On Houses In Black Neighborhoods Lead To Depression-Era Rates Of Foreclosure. By Ashleigh Atwell / Atlanta Black Star
A Lil Tribute to Biggie: The Larger-than Life Rap Icon Who Brought Hip-Hop to the Masses. By Christine Contrada / Newsweek
Where Might Trumpism Take Us? By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Feb 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Does Anyone Have a Clue About How to Fight Back Against Trump’s Racism? By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Seeing Black History in Context. By Erin Aury Kaplan / NYT
Bookerism and the Black Elite. By Adolph Reed Jr. / New Republic
The Equality That Wasn’t Enough. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
The Audacity of Hate. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Ta-Nehisi Coates on why political power isn’t enough for the right. By Ezra Klein / Vox Podcast
America has been measuring segregation all wrong. But it’s not too late to get it right. By Trevon D. Logan / NBC News
