Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
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
Suicide Attempts Among Black Teens Are Increasing. By Catherine Pearson / HuffPost
Lifers: Stories of non-violent incarceration in federal prison. By USA Today
Cory Booker Asked About Struggles With Black Voters: ‘Let My Work Speak For Me.’ By Brakkton Booker / NPR
Actor Charged Racism Over Statue. N.Y. Politics Took It From There. By Jeffery C. Mays / NYT
What Back-to-School News Stories Hide About Charter Schools. By Peter Greene / The Progressive
The School Secession Movement Is Growing. That’s Bad News for Integration. By Sophie Kasakove / The New Republic
How Moving to France and Having Children Led a Black American to Rethink Race. By Andrew Solomon / NYT
Black Instagram influencers call out ‘blackfishing’ white women for racial appropriation. By Quinn Gawronski / NBC News
Kanye West and the Cult of Personality. By Shamira Ibrahim / NYT
The Inept, Old, Half-Interested Quarterbacks Who Got Deals Instead of Colin Kaepernick This Year. By Nick Greene / Slate
The conservative backlash against LeBron James has nothing to do with human rights. By Etan Thomas / The Guardian
What can a black person do to keep from getting killed by police in this country? By Eugene Robinson / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – What Elijah Cummings Meant to Baltimore. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Steven Spielberg Battles White Supremacy in the Age of Trump. By Nick Schager / The Daily Beast
How ‘White Guilt’ in the Age of Trump Shapes the Democratic Primary. By Astead W. Herndon / NYT
There were once 3 capitals of the Confederacy. All three cities now have black mayors. By Leah Asmelash / CNN
The Supreme Court May Soon Deal a Final, Fatal Blow to the Voting Rights Act. By Mark Joseph Stern / Slate
Biden is creating a generational divide among black voters. By David Love / CNN
This Top Gifted and Talented School Is Integrated. Is It the Future? By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
