Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Teen Walks At Graduation After Completing Doctoral Degree At 17. By Shafiq Najib / ABC News
Emmitt Smith ripped Florida for eliminating all DEI roles. Here’s why the NFL legend spoke out. By Jarrett Bell / USA Today
CJ McCollum Wins NBA J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award. By Marc J. Spears / Andscape
Georgia QB Sues Florida Coach Billy Napier Over Failed NIL Deal. By Gus Garcia-Roberts And Albert Samaha / Wash Post
Caitlin Clark’s ‘Problematic’ Fame Is About ‘Race And Sexuality.’ :Jemele Hill / NY Post
The World’s 10 Highest-Paid Athletes 2024. By Justin Birnbaum / Forbes
What American Fascism Would Look Like. It can happen here. And if it does, here is what might become of the country. The New Republic
Race Inquiry Digest (May 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Navigating James Baldwin s legacy: A review of The Gospel According to James Baldwin. By Jon Mathieu / The Christian Century
Revisiting Brown v. Board of Education’s Legacy in a New Era of Massive Resistance. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
How Black teachers lost when civil rights won in Brown v. Board. Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz et al. / The Conversation
Biden announces grants to further desegregate schools on Brown vs. Board anniversary. By Fritz Farrow / ABC News
The White House: FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Record Over $16 Billion in Support for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
Supreme Court restores Louisiana voting map with majority-Black district. By Patrick Marley ,Justin Jouvenal , and Ann E. Marimow / Wash Post
“‘Modern-Day Form Of Slavery’: Lawsuit Alleges Alabama Denies Parole To Use Prisoners For Forced Labor.” by Sharelle Burt / Black Enterprise
Racism simmered in a Texas school district. Culture war made it boil. By Rachelle Hampton / Wash Post
Byron Donalds Is Considering A Run For Florida Governor And Has The Support Of Donald Trump. By Sharelle Burt / Black Enterprise
57% of Black women ages 15-49 live with little to no abortion access. By Char Adams / NBC News
R. Derek Black’s new book: A convert from white nationalism has a warning for the left about antisemitism. By Molly Olmstead / Slate
Texas Governor Pardons Ex-Army Sergeant Convicted Of Killing Black Lives Matter Protester In 2020. By AP and HuffPost
Forget Biden’s “pause”: Israel is destroying Gaza with a vast arsenal of U.S. weapons. By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies / Salon
Chris Hani, National Liberation, and Apartheid’s Murderous Legacies. By Navid Farnia / AAIHS
With Haiti cut off from the world, supplies are dwindling and its crisis is getting worse. By Giles Clarke / CNN
Brown v. Board: The Momentous School Desegregation Decision. By Earl Warren / The Atlantic April 1977 Issue
Preying on white fears worked for Georgia’s Lester Maddox in the ’60s − and is working there for Donald Trump today. By David Cason / The Conversation
Beyoncé Just Covered the Beatles in the Most Authentic Way: By Honoring Black History. By Garrison Hayes / Mother Jones
Watch “Black Women’s Embrace of Natural Hair Is About More than Style. The New Yorker / You Tube
Rick Brunson, Jalen Brunson and the line between father and son. By William C. Rhoden / Andscape
Community rallies to replace a Jackie Robinson statue after it was stolen from a Kansas little league park. By Greg Rosenstein and Morgan Chesky / NBC News
Simone Biles launches Olympic year with dominant win at U.S. Classic. Wash Post
Invoking Struggle and Faith, Biden Reaches Out at Morehouse. By Katie Rogers and Maya King / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (May 23) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured What American Fascism Would Look Like. It can happen here. And if it does, here is what might become of the country. The New…