Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Black Americans Are Not Surprised. By Christina Greer / NYT (Image by NPR)
Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured America, This Is an Old and Brutal Tyranny. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Trump Just Bet the Farm. By Thomas L. Freidman / NYT
Black veterans sound the alarm over military DEI purge. By Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill
Thousands protested Trump nationwide in towns big and small. By Sarah D. Wire / USA Today
Obama calls on citizens, colleges and law firms to resist Trump agenda. By Frances Vinall and Justine McDaniel / Wash Post
Why This Unending Purge of Media Leaders of Color Hurts Us All. By Keli Goff / The Daily Beast
Civil rights groups sue Trump over executive order requiring citizenship proof in registering to vote. By Deena Zaru / ABC News
The Top Goal of Project 2025 Is Still to Come. By David A. Graham / The Atlantic
This Is Not the Right Way to Curb Migration. By Rebecca Hanson, David Smilde and Verónica Zubillaga / NYT
What to Know About Trump’s Tariffs and the Global Trade War. By Ana Swanson, Danielle Kaye ,Lazaro Gamio, Jeanna Smialek and Martin Fackler / NYT
Haiti taking more steps against gangs after thousands of protesters demand security. By AP and NBC News
No wigs please – the new rules shaking up beauty pageants (Africa and the Caribbean) By Anita Nkonge / BBC
The Christian right has set the US on the road to Gilead. Without a fight, other nations may follow. By Deborah Frances-White / The Guardian
American hell. In the last year of his life, Martin Luther King Jr.’s confidence in the politics of progressivism dimmed. Judgment became his refrain. By Isaac S. Villegas / Christian Century
Tax Breaks, Tithes, and Turnoffs-Is the Black Church Chasing Profits Over People? By Jasmine Browley / BET
Honoring Dr. King’s Legacy In A Time Of Continued Resistance. By tiffany Hamilton / Newsone
From the Confederacy to the Gilded Age: Manisha Sinha on the “sorry history” that inspires MAGA. By Charles R. Davis / Salon
Why the Court Hit the Brakes on School Desegregation. By Louis Menand / The New Yorker
How Newspapers Struggled to Cover Segregation in the North. By Jeanne Theoharis / Time
Maryland Reparations Bill Head To Gov. Wes Moore For Approval. By Kandiss Edwards / Black Enterprise
Tracy Chapman Wants to Speak for Herself. By Lindsay Zoladz / NYT
The Dodgers Are Planning to Visit the White House. It’s a Disgrace. By Dave Zirin / The Nation
Carmelo Anthony, Dwight Howard, Sue Bird, Maya Moore headline 2025 Hall of Fame class. By Rob Peterson, Jenna West and Rebecca Tauber / The Athletic
BAL to honor Dikembe Mutombo throughout 2025 season. By Marc J. Spears / Andscape
Duke faces fallout of epic meltdown in ‘heartbreaking’ Final Four loss to Houston. By Paul Myerberg / USA Today
