Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Cities with more black residents rely more on traffic tickets and fines for revenue. By Akheil Singla / The Conversation
The NBA’s Highest-Paid Players 2019-2020: Lebron James Scores $92 Million. By Kurt Bademhaueen / Forbes
When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr. By Thomas Meaney / NYT
The Fight to Desegregate New York Schools. By Sweta Vohra / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – I traveled the American South looking for a way to solve racial divisions. By Mitch Landrieu / CNN
Challengers To Florida ‘Poll Tax’ Law Targeting Ex-Felons Get Preliminary Win. By Tierney Sneed / Talingpointsmemo
Inside the “Most Incarcerated” Zip Code in the Country. By Caleb Gayle / The New Republic
What it means to raise a Black girl in white America. By D. Watkins / Salon
Can Warren win the nomination without majority black support? By Laura Barron-Lopez and Alex Thompson / Politico
A radical way to mobilize black voters in 2020: Work on issues, not voting. By Janell Ross / NBC News
Some minority workers are up to 20% more likely than white workers to report canceled shifts at work. By Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN
Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses his powerful debut novel, The Water Dancer, with Ibram X. Kendi.
When Latinx People Use the N-Word. By Gary Suarez / NYT
Washington doesn’t have a Latino history museum. These people are hoping to change that. By Leah Asmelash / CNN
Get ready to love ‘Watchmen,’ the smartest show on television. By Soraya Nadia McDonald / The Undefeated
“Tina: The Tina Turner Musical” Comes to Broadway. The New Yorker
Comedians have to walk a tightrope on issues of race. That will make the art form better. By Margaret Cho / NBC News
The X-Rated Godfather of Rap Gets His Due. By Bill Morris / Daily Beast
What Elijah Cummings Meant to Baltimore. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 24) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Fight to Desegregate New York Schools. By Sweta Vohra / NYT
Fort Worth Officer Charged With Murder for Shooting Woman in Her Home. By Marina Trahan Martinez, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Sarah Mervosh/ NYT
Trumpism’s Infinite Vulgarities. By Charles M. Blow
Here are the indigenous people Christopher Columbus and his men could not annihilate. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
An Early Case For Reparations. Two new books tell the stories of people kidnapped and sold into slavery. By Eric Herschthal / The New Republic
Ibram X. Kendi on “How to Be an Antiracist”: Racism and capitalism “will ultimately die together.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Racists Are Recruiting. Watch Your White Sons. By Joanna Schroeder / NYT
