Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
How Reconstruction Created American Public Education. By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
Should Frederick Douglass be posed in a rap squat? Descendants say no. By Petuyla Dvorak / Wash Post
The urgent need for a truth and healing commission on Indian boarding schools. By Bridget Moix / RNS
The Supreme Court blew a chance to fix its second-worst decision ever. By George F. Will / Wash Post
‘Rustin’ shines a long overdue spotlight on the architect of the March on Washington. By Max Gao / NBC News
Why We Have to Reckon With the Real Malcolm X. By Peniel E. Joseph / NYT
Black Music Sunday: Prep your holiday meal with a side of ‘that sweet soul music.’ By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Michael Oher’s Foster Brothers Claim Iconic ‘Blind Side’ Scene ‘Didn’t Occur.’ By Curtis M. Wong / HuffPost
Bronny James Tumbles, But $93K Loss Pushes Shedeur Sanders Much Deeper in the NIL Race. By Dhruv Shastry / Essentially Sports
Warriors, Timberwolves fight involves 3 ejections, Draymond Green chokehold on Rudy Gobert. By Jon Krawczynski, Anthony Slater and Marcus Thompson II / The Athletic
The Sermons I Needed to Hear Right Now. The Ezra Klein Show / NYT Podcast (Image ABC News)
Black Hockey Player In Fatal Freak Accident Has Become A Target For Racist Tweets. By Candace McDuffie / The Root
Deion Sanders and the Past and Future of College Football. By Zack Helfand / The New Yorker
Meet People magazine’s sexiest Black male athletes. By Haniyah Philogene / The Grio
Tupac Shakur could win his first Grammy almost 30 years after his death. By Lisa Respers France / CNN
The enduring allure of Jay-Z’s ‘The Black Album.’ By Justin Tinsley / Andscape
HBCU Grad Makes History as First Black President Of The Academy of Physicians in Clinical Research. By Black News
Dozens of Black soldiers were sentenced to life or hanged after the 1917 ‘Houston Riot.’ The Army has now overturned their convictions. By The Grio Staff
New museum honors untold stories of enslaved Africans through genealogy. By Anne Azzi Davenport and Geoff Bennett / PBS
Maria W. Stewart and a Womanist Theological Tradition. By Amber M. Neal-Stanley / AAIHS
The Social Gospel movement is changing our politics and reshaping our perspectives. It has nothing to do with whiteness or nationalism. By John Blake
Mike Johnson’s “biblical” economics: Using Christian nationalism to “enhance plutocratic wealth.” By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Bibi Netanyahu’s Bible lessons: How he pushes Gaza war to Jewish and Christian far right. By Ariel Gold / Salon
A Black Woman’s Rise in Architecture Shows How Far Is Left to Go. By Jane Margolies / NYT
What It Means to Be a Texan Is Changing in Surprising Ways. By J. David Goodman, Edgar Sandoval and Robert Gebeloff / NYT
Inside Tribal Leaders’ Call To Action To Address The Fentanyl Crisis. By Ian Kumamoto / HuffPost
This school tried to keep kids safe. Then graduation ended in gunfire. By Sabby Robinson , Hannah Natanson and Moriah Balingit / Wash Post
How inheritance data secretly explains U.S. inequality. By Andrew Van Dam / Wash Post
Poor men south of Richmond? Why much of the rural South is in economic crisis. By Peter A. Cocianis and Louis M. Kyriakoudes / The Conversation
SCOTUS Rejects Appeal For Man Who Spent Years In Solitary Confinement Without Exercise. By Taiyler S. Mitchell / HuffPost
