Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
The Christian Case Against Trump. By Eliza Griswold / NYT (Image Rolling Stone)
New book chronicles the formerly enslaved man crucial to creating Jack Daniel’s. By Geogg Bennett, Stephanie Kotuby and Alexa Gold / PBS
White woman who wrongfully accused ‘Groveland Four’ of rape in Jim Crow-era South dies at 92. By Devon M. Sayers, Sara Weisfeldt and Emma Tucker. / CNN
How a Supreme Court decision kept school segregation alive. By Michelle Adams / Wash Post
Reflections on James Baldwin 100 years after his birth. By Wallter Ray Watson / NPR
White House chef, first woman and person of color in role, retires after nearly 30 years. By AP and NBC News
St. Lucia gets its first gold medal, thanks to the world’s fastest woman. By Ben Shpigel Talya Minsberg Chang W. Lee Gabriela Bhaskar and Daniel Berehula / NYT
Black Women in Sports You Should Be Watching. By Noah A McGee / The Root
Dream Team dreaming: How great can this U.S. men’s basketball team still be? By Joe Vardon / The Athletic
What Trump’s Kamala Harris Smear Reveals. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 8) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Why Tim Walz Will Be a Potent Weapon for Kamala Harris. By Ross Barkan / NYT (Image ABC)
Kamala Harris is the worst nightmare of America’s far right. By Robert Reich / The Guardian (Image The Hill)
Who is Kamala Harris’ acclaimed academic father, Donald J. Harris? By Bethamy Gemmell / WGTC
Trump and Vance seem ready to offend as many women voters as possible. By Jennifer Ruben / Wash Post
Trump Questions Harris’s Racial Identity, Saying She Only ‘Became Black’ Recently. By Jonathan Weisman, Maya King and Zolan Kanno-Youngs / NYT
Biden Unveils Plan For Supreme Court Changes, Including Term Limits. By Aamer Madhani / HuffPost
Opponents of DEI want to stifle America’s progress. We can’t let that happen. By Stacey Abrams and Margaret Huang / USA Today
Income gap between Black and white US residents shrank between Gen Xers and millennials, study says. By AP and The Grio
Belle Wheelan to retire as head of Southern accreditor. By Doug Lederman / Inside Higher Ed.
Will Hezbollah and Israel Go to War? By Dexter Filkins / The New Yorker
Netanyahu Smeared the Pro-Palestine Protest Movement. Congress Clapped. By Jonah Valdez / The Intercept
Global Black Thought: An Interview with Keisha N. Blain & Robert Greene II. By Jocelyn Dawson / AAIHS
The Most Revealing Moment of a Trump Rally. By McKay Coppins / The Atlantic
Project 2025: A blueprint for the Christian nationalist vision for America. By Liz Theoharis and Shailly Gupta Barnes / Salon
How Christian Fundamentalism Was Born Again. By Michael Luo / The New Yorker
“The savior of Israel”: Antisemitism expert on what Trump’s “good Jew and bad Jew sorting” signals. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
How Martin Luther King Jr. foresaw Mississippi’s new Episcopal Black bishop. By Joe McDaniel / RNS
The Black Ballot: Unraveling The Legacy Of Civil Rights And Political Shifts In America. By Brianna Sharpe / Newsone
Robert L. Allen, Who Recounted a Naval Mutiny Trial, Dies at 82. By Richard Sandomir / NYT
More than 900 Native American children died at U.S. boarding schools. By Dana Hedgpeth and Sari Horwitz / Wash Post
