Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Lakers honor Kobe Bryant with statue outside Crypto.com Arena. By Jovan Buha / The Athletic
Black civil rights organizations are rallying to counter anti-DEI rhetoric. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Race Inquiry Digest (Feb 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured When Fani Willis took the stand, her fury was precise and laser-focused. By Robin Givhan / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (Feb 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured How Wall Street Funded Slavery. By David Montero / Time
We are now at the mercy of democracy doomers. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
In Las Vegas, Biden Promotes Promises Kept to Black and Hispanic Voters. By Nicholas Nehamas / NYT
An Airtight Ruling Against Trump. By George T. Conway III / The Atlantic
Haley Outvoted in Nevada Primary by ‘None of These Candidates,’ Without Trump on the Ballot. By Kellen Browning / NYT
How Black and Jewish communities are working together to combat hate. By Phaedra Trethan / USA Today
Virginia Legislature elects Don Scott as its first Black speaker of the house. By Jahd Khalil / NPR
Another Black Woman At Harvard Is Being Targeted In Wake Of DEI Attacks. By Rayna Reid Rayford / Essence
How the union fever in 2023 fared for women of color. By Juliana Kim / NPR
The Changing Roles Of Black Churches In America. By Ginny Baxter / Patheos
Watching “The Book of Clarence” shows we’ve been losing our organized religion. By D. Watkins / Salon
Kirk Franklin, Lecrae, Blind Boys of Alabama add new Grammy wins. By Aleja Hertzler-McCain / RNS
Nebraska is newest battleground in religious right’s crusade to infiltrate public education. By Charles Jay / Daily Kos
Slavery From the Inside — as Only a Slave Could Show It. By Carl Rollyson / The NY Sun
Home Front: Black Women Unionists in the Confederacy. By Matthew Wills / JSTOR
Decades after suspected arson, a historic Black church in Pennsylvania reopens as a Black history museum. By Kaitlyn Schwanemann / CNN
5 MLK speeches you should know besides ‘I Have a Dream.’ By Scott Neuman / NPR
Joy Reid’s ‘Medgar and Myrlie’ traces extraordinary lives and love of civil rights leaders. By Geoff Bennett and Karina Cuevas / PBS
Jay-Z’s Grammys speech and Beyonce’s snubs call out a deeper problem. By Li Zhou / Vox
From rebel to retail − inside Bob Marley’s posthumous musical and merchandising empire. By Mike Alleyne / The Conversation
Netflix’s Big New War Movie Is Doing Something The Genre Almost Always Overlooks. By Kate Bove / Screen Rant
George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and the fraught notion of America’s melting pot. By Ryan Raul Bañagale / The Conversation
How Usher’s Enduring Charm Led Him to 2024 Halftime Show. By Cady Lang / Time
Las Vegas Raiders president Sandra Douglass Morgan continues to pioneer at the Super Bowl. By Jason Reid / Andscape
Doc Rivers to coach in All-Star Game, a move he calls ‘ridiculously bad.’ By Cindy Boren / Wash Post
Morehouse Brings On Terance Mathis As Football Head Coach. By Cedric Thornton / Black Enterprise
A Forgotten Championship H.B.C.U. Team Comes Off the Sidelines. By Remy Tumin / NYT
