Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Rubio visits Rome aiming to repair White House ties with Pope Leo. By Anthony Faiola, Stefano Pitrelli and Adam Taylor / Wash Post
Religious historian debunks Trump Cabinet’s claim US ‘was founded as a Christian nation.’ By Alex Henderson / AlterNet
Rev. Stephen Green On Faith, Justice, And The Liberating Gospel Of Jesus. By Anoa Changa-Peck / Newsone
How the Slaveholding Founders Really Felt About Slavery. By Timothy Sandefuir / Reason
‘Disgrace’: Horror as red state’s new history course calls slavery a ‘necessary evil.’ By Bennitol L. Kelty / Raw Story
Md. Gov. Wes Moore unveils marker honoring Black boys buried at Maryland reform school. By Bolarinwa Oladeji / The Grio
Trump’s dog whistles and prosecutions echo Nixon’s racist strategy. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Motown’s Black women songwriters and producers were the invisible architects behind the pop music juggernaut. By Margena A. Christian / The Conversation
Why Wynton Marsalis thinks jazz is the perfect metaphor for democracy. By Jeffrey Brown / PBS
Black Celebs Who Slayed the 2026 Met Gala. By Capital B Staff
The Savannah Bananas Bring Back a Negro Leagues Team. By Josh Levin / The Atlantic
Historically Black colleges take the lead in driving the growth of women’s flag football. By Mia Berry / Andscape
Magic fire head coach Jamahl Mosley after 5 seasons. By Tim Bontemps / ESPN
What happened to Isiah Thomas? Hall of Famer reveals health diagnosis. By Ben Leibowitz / Akron Beacon Journal
The Unintended Consequences of Exclusion. By Ronald J. Sheehy, Editor / On Race in America
On Race in America (May 16) – Stories, Insight and Perspective
Featured When Pimping Became Mainstream: The Jeffrey Epstein Story and the Republican Manosphere. By Ronald J. Sheehy, Editor / On Race in America
‘Boxed in Trump’ has ‘nowhere to move’ as his presidency crumbles: top historian. By Nick Hilden / AlterNet
In Narrowing Voting Rights Act, Conservative Justices See Progress on Racism. By Adam Liptak / NYT
Black Businesses Could Lose Access To Federal Contracts Due To DEI Order, Report. By Nahlah Abdur-Rahman / Black Enterprise
Cole Tomas Allen is a Black Man Who Had Everything Going for Him—So Why? By Earl Ofari Hutchinson / Eurweb
US activists plan May Day economic blackout: ‘No school, no work, no shopping.’ By Michael Sainato / The Guardian
The GOP Has Almost Completely Run Out Of Black People. By Zack Linly / Newsone
Trump Sued For Racial Discrimination, Accused Of Firing 75% of Black Officials At Independent Federal Agencies. By Christopher Rhodes / Blavity
Employment Agency Pushes Discrimination Cases That Match Trump’s Agenda. By Rebecca Davis O’Brien / NYT
‘Come and make the ask’: Talarico faces a test with Black voters in Texas. By Samuel Benson and Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico
Multiracial Americans are surging. But data erases them. By Russell Contreras / Axios
