Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
North Carolina Court Strikes Down Gerrymander, Citing Smoking Gun Evidence in the Hofeller Files. By Mark Joseph Stern / Slate
Freedom Without Citizenship, Reconciliation without Reparations. By Westenley Alcenat / AAIHS
The Former Slave Who Sued for Reparations, and Won. By W. Caleb McDaniel / NYT
Immigration in America Is Increasingly Asian, Female, and Middle-Class. Why Don’t We Talk About It? By Laura Thompson / Mother Jones
The graying of America’s prisons: ‘When is enough enough?’ By Eileen Rivers / USA
Cherokee Nation Names First Delegate To Congress. By Graham Lee Brewer / NPR
It’s About Time!’ Betye Saar’s Long Climb to the Summit. By Holland Cotter / NYT
The Voice That Shattered Glass. How Ella Fitzgerald’s cassette campaign fueled a late-career renaissance. By Michelle Mercer / NPR
The W.N.B.A. Is Putting On Some of the Best Pro Basketball in America. Why aren’t more fans showing up? By Kim Tingley / NYT
Welcome to the Year of the Black Quarterback. By Jason Reid / The Undefeated
Race Inquiry Digest (Sept 9) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – How to help the victims of Hurricane Dorian. By Nicole Spector / NBC News
Black kids in Missouri are being shot down in unspeakable numbers. By kay Wicker / ThinkProgress
Who is Clarence Thomas. By Michael O’Donnell / The Atlantic
Jim Crow Returns to the Supreme Court. By Matt Ford / The New Republic
Slavery and the Holocaust: How Americans and Germans Cope With Past Evils. By Susan Neiman / NYT
Congress must officially apologize for slavery before America can think about reparations. By Mark Medish and Daniel Lucich / NBC News
Dismantling the Myth of the “Black Confederate.” By Rebecca Onion / Slate.
Donald Trump: Full up to the eyeballs with hate. He won on that once, and hopes to do it again. By Lucian K. Truscott IV / Salon
Stacey Abrams’s fight for voting rights matters more than her political future. By P.R. Lockhart / Vox
Probe of missing Georgia votes finds “extreme” irregularities in black districts. By Andrew O’Hehir / Salon
He Spent Years Infiltrating White Supremacist Groups. Here’s What He Has to Say About What’s Going on Now. By Joe Sexton / Propublica
The Petrochemical Industry Is Killing Another Black Community in ‘Cancer Alley.’ By Mara Kardas-Nelson / The Nation
Mary Frances Whitfield Bears Witness. By Alexandra Marvar / The Nation
Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On Live’ Set for Reissue. By Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone
How Black Suffragettes Subverted the Domestic Sphere. By Hannah Giorgis / The Atlantic
A fight over gifted education in New York is escalating a national debate over segregated schools. By Erin Einhorn / NBC News
Race Inquiry Digest (Sept 5) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Welcome to the Year of the Black Quarterback. By Jason Reid / The Undefeated