Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Roma Is Only the Latest Movie From a Latin American Director About His Family’s Domestic Worker. By Inkoo Kang / Slate
58 Jazz Giants in One Immortal Image. By John Leland / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (December 24) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Enduring Russian Propaganda Interests in Targeting African-Americans. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Overlooked No More: Elizabeth Keckly, Dressmaker and Confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln. By Nancy Wartik / NYT
What Makes Jeremy O. Harris’ ‘Slave Play’ Such a Powerful Play About Racism. By Tim Teeman / The Daily Beast
The Politics of Memory in Barry Jenkins’s “If Beale Street Could Talk.” By Richard Brody / The New Yorker
Remembering Rosanell Eaton, An Outspoken Advocate for Voting Rights. By Leslie Ovalle / NPR
Writing ‘BlacKkKlansman’ was an exploration of ‘twoness.’ By Kevin Willmott / LA Times
The Rise of Right-Wing Extremism and How U.S. Law Enforcement Ignored it. By Michael Barbaro, Ike Sriskandarajah, and Larissa Anderson / NYT
Oldest Institution of Southern Baptist Convention Reveals Past Ties to Slavery. By Adeel Hassan / NYT
After the DNA debacle, Elizabeth Warren’s outreach to minority communities makes a pivot. By Eugene Scott / Wash Post
Congress will have more Latino members than ever before. By Luis Alonso Lugo / Associated Press
HBCU Bennett College Could Close If It Can’t Raise $5 Million By February. By Ashleigh Atwell / Blavity
The Best Black History Books of 2018 by AAAIHS Editors
Race Inquiry Digest (December 20) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – 58 Jazz Giants in One Immortal Image. By John Leland / NYT
How activists are fighting racial disparities in school discipline. Mark R. Warren / The Conversation
I’m for Affirmative Action. Can You Change My Mind? Gary Gutting / NYT
The overlooked heroes of the civil rights movement. Remembering Howard Thurman and other forgotten activists. David B. Gowler / Wash Post
Lorraine Hansberry, American radical: She pushed RFK to make “a moral commitment” on civil rights. Imani Perry / Salon
Confederate plaque removed from W. Virginia county courthouse following vote. Joe Heim / Wash Post
Absentee-ballot fraud scandal speaks to wider issue of racism in North Carolina. Khushbu Shah / The Guardian
Minneapolis Confronts Its History of Housing Segregation. Henry Grabar / Slate
Beto O’Rourke sounding out prominent black Democrats as he ponders presidential bid. Garrett Haake and Mike Memoli / NBC News
Another Democrat gets a 2020 look: Andrew Gillum. Marc Caputo and Alex Thompson / Politico
Ryan Speedo Green: From juvenile delinquency to opera stardom. By Scott Pelley / 60 Minutes
Race Inquiry Digest (December 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Best Black History Books of 2018 by AAAIHS Editors.
