Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Muhammad Ali to be Posthumously Inducted Into the WWE Hall of Fame — A Look Back at the Boxing Champ’s Lesser-Known History In Wrestling. By Grace Jidoun / Atlanta Black Star
How the Black female head of a top D.C. school was ‘punished for leading.’ By Shirley Moody-Turner / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 25) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Elon Musk Is Preoccupied With Something He Doesn’t Understand. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Don’t Think of It as a Contest Between Biden and Trump. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
On Campaign Trail In Ohio, Trump Warns Of ‘Bloodbath’ If He Loses In November. By Meg Kinnard and Jill Colvin / HuffPost
Unproven claims and ‘unprofessional’ witnesses: How judge arrived at DA Fani Willis ruling. By Josh Meyer / USA Today
Five Takeaways From Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Essay on the ‘Colorblindness’ Trap. By Nikole Hannah-Jones / NYT
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ war on ‘woke’ may be waning in Florida. By Greg Allen / NPR
Elon Musk Keeps Spreading a Very Specific Kind of Racism. By Arianna Coghill and Garrison Hayes / Mother Jones
$1 billion donation for free medical school may increase racial diversity – and save lives. By Jessica Faiz and Utibe R. Essien / USA Today
America Owes a Historical Debt to Haiti. By Lydia Polgreen / NYT
Why Young Voters Aren’t With Biden on Israel. By Stephen Zunes / The Progressive
At National Prayer Breakfast, Biden speaks of praying, working for peace. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
‘Interspiritual’ former pastor talks faith beyond church in new book. By Kathryn Post / RNS
The Terrifying Christian Nationalist Crusade to Conquer America. By Chris Lehman / The Nation
My calling as a Christian minister: Stand up against evangelical hypocrisy. By Nathaniel Manderson / Salon
6 Side-By-Side Portraits Of Black Civil War Heroes And Their Direct Descendants. By Rokas Laurinavičius and Indrė Lukošiūtė / Boredpanda
Why a Native American Nation Is Challenging the U.S. Over a 1794 Treaty. By Grace Ashford / NYT
The Black Box of Race. By Henry Louis Gates Jr. / The Atlantic
The Harlem Renaissance wasn’t just nightclubs. It was about ideas. By Phillip Kennicott / Wash Post
Dorie Ladner, Unheralded Civil Rights Heroine, Dies at 81. By Sam Roberts / NYT
Retired FAMU prof barred from conference hotel during segregation. Now, he’s being honored. By Alaijah Brown / Tallahassee Democrat
“I tried on the American dream”: CNN analyst Natasha Alford on finding success without assimilating. By D. Watkins / Salon
NAACP Image Awards 2024: Here Are All The Winners. By Kimberley Richards / HuffPost
‘American Society of Magical Negroes’ cast and director say not to judge the film by its trailer. By Ronda Racha Penrice / NBC News
Caribbean musician Sherwin Gardner’s viral hit song surpasses 1 billion TikTok views. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
