Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
After 100 years, Mussolini’s fascist party is a reminder of the fragility of freedom. By Richard Gunderman / The Conversation
Race Inquiry Digest (March 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – It’s Time to Attack White Nationalism for the Terror Group It Is. By Christopher Dickey / The Daily Beast
(We digress) God Offers People of Alabama New Bibles to Replace Ones Trump Signed. By Andy Borowitz / The New Yorker
The Manafort Sentence Is a Lesson in White Privilege. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
A black lawmaker and mother refused to back down in opposing a ‘stand your ground’ bill. The measure was defeated. By Christina Maxouris and Michelle Krupa / CNN
The Case for Reparations. By David Brooks / NYT
Why Sacramento is still protesting Stephon Clark’s death, one year later. By Gabe Schneider / Vox
Ilhan Omar’s Victory for Political Sanity. By David Dayen / The New Republic
New York City will be home to three new monuments honoring black women. by Gwen Aviles / NBC News
Is ‘Latinx’ elitist? Some push back at the word’s growing use. By Stephen Nuno-Perez and Gwen Aviles / NBC News
Her ancestors were enslaved in the U.S. Now a Trump decision could lead to her deportation to Africa. By Orion Donovan-Smith / Wash Post
Why Birthrates Among Hispanic Americans Have Plummeted. By Sabrina Tavernise / NYT
House passes sweeping voting rights, electoral reform bill. By Addy Baird / ThinkProgress
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp Faces Investigation by House Panel. By Maggie Astor / NYT
75 Percent of Republicans Say White Americans Are Discriminated Against. By Peter Wade / Rolling Stone
The Aftertaste of Slavery Still Haunts American Cooking. By Tom Philpott / Mother Jones
Ole Miss students vote unanimously to remove Confederate statue from campus center. By Phil McCausland / NBC News
The racist online abuse of Meghan has put royal staff on high alert. By Max Foster / CNN
Curtis Mayfield’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell. By Jason Heller / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest (March 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – After 100 years, Mussolini’s fascist party is a reminder of the fragility of freedom. By Richard Gunderman / The Conversaation
At CPAC, Extremists On Stage And Off. By Christopher Mathias / HuffPost
White Supremacist Propaganda At ‘Record-Setting’ Levels, ADL Report Finds. By Matthew S. Schwartz / NPR
Trump’s support among Hispanics and Latinos is real. Don’t assume it will fade. By David Byler / Wash Post
Ensuring racial equality – from classrooms to workplaces – depends on federal regulations Trump could roll back. By Derek W. Black / The Conversation
The Schools That Tried—But Failed—to Make Native Americans Obsolete. By Alia Wong / The Atlantic
Reckoning With Violence. By Michelle Alexander / NYT
