Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Once Upon A Time, Enslaved Africans Were An Insurance Commodity. By Stacey Patton / Black Enterprise
How the GI Bill widened the Black-white wealth gap. By Ebony Reed / Los Angeles Times
These Researchers Study the Legacy of the Segregation Academies They Grew Up Around. By Jennifer Berry Hawes / ProPublica
Documentary ‘The Debutantes’ shines a light on cotillions as a celebration of Black Girlhood. By Isabel Yip / NBC News
How Trump Went from Hip Hop’s Favorite Wealth Icon to the Culture’s Supervillain. By Cali Green / The Root
The Father-Son Drama of LeBron and Bronny James. By Louisa Thomas / The New Yorker
How Willie Mays Handled Being a Black Superstar in a Racist Era. By Aram Goudsouzian / Time
A UFC takeover: Donald Trump’s dreams of a migrant fighting league are no joke. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
An influx of money will change the WNBA. Players and teams are prepared. By Kareem Copeland / Wash Post
The MAGA GOP’s “New Model” for America is the Old South. By Thom Hartmann / The Hartmann Report
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 4) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured ‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’: The History of Frederick Douglass’ Searing Independence Day Oration. By Olivia B. Waxman / Time
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 1) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Reckoning of Joe Biden. By David Remnick / The New Yorker
Biden takes lead over Trump in Fox News poll for the first time since October 2023. By Nicholas Liu / Salon
The Apprentice Is the Skeleton Key to Understanding Trump. By Will Leitch / New York Intelligencer
Bragg Has Been Deluged With Threats Since Trump’s Conviction. By Nia Prater / New York Intelligencer
Is This the End of the Clarence Thomas Court? By Matt Ford / The New Republic
The Israel Trip That Made Jamaal Bowman — And Could Cost Him His Reelection. By Calder McHugh / Politico
Liberalism Under Siege. Win McCormack / The New Republic
Backlash against DEI spreads to more states. By Erika Bolstad / Daily Kos
Is It Possible to Desegregate the Nation’s Biggest School System? By Troy Closson / NYT
NC A&T’s Chancellor-Elect Vows To Exceed Expectations. By Ashlei Stevens/ Black Enterprise
President Joe Biden: ‘All the bad guys’ globally are rooting for Donald Trump. By Brett Samuels / The Hill
“The Night Won’t End”: New Film Investigates Civilian Killings in Gaza and U.S. Backing of Israeli Assault. Democracy Now
As President Takes Oath, 4 Challenges for South Africa’s New Government. By John Eligon / NYT
Louisiana’s Ten Commandments Law Signals a Broader Christian Agenda. By Rick Rojas, David W. Chen and Elizabeth Dias / NYT
How Christian nationalism is going under the radar in this election. By Paul A. Djupe / RNS
Greg Abbott’s School Voucher Crusade Is Three Decades in the Making. by Jeremy Schwartz / ProPublica
These Badges Shed New Light on the Enslaved Workers Who Built Charleston. By Sarah Kuta / Smithsonian Magazine
The site of the first free Black town in the U.S. is being rebuilt near St. Augustine. By C. Isaiah Smalls II / Miami Herald
Three Evangelical ‘Founding Fathers’ and Their Complicated Relationships to Slavery. By Robert Caldwell III / CT
