Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Abbott signs into law CROWN Act banning race-based hair discrimination. By Alejandro Serrano / The Texas Tribune
2023 NBA Finals In Miami Amid NAACP Travel Advisory In Florida. By Bruce C.T. Wright / NewsOne
Ex-NFL player Colin Allred hopes football past helps topple Ted Cruz. By Mike Freeman / USA Today
Scottie Pippen: Michael Jordan was ‘horrible player’ and ‘horrible to play with,’ says former Chicago Bulls teammate. By Ben Morse / CNN
The outsized world of James Wood. By Jesse Dougherty / Wash Post
Most Americans say colleges should be able to use affirmative action in admissions, but race should play a small role, new poll shows. By Collin Binkley, Emily Swanson and The AP / Fortune
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 12) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Racism Pervades College Sports. It’s Taking An Alarming Toll On Athletes. By Margo Snipe / Capital B
The ambitious Republican plot to take it all down. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Ron DeSantis is learning that not every state wants to be Florida. By Henry J. Gomez / NBC News
FRONTLINE Presents “Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court.” By PBS.
Tim Scott, the GOP, and Black Voters. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
Is America Two Nations? By Mike Podhorzer and Felicia Wong / The New Republic Podcast
Harris becomes first woman to deliver commencement address at West Point. By Jasmine Wright / CNN
Three years after Floyd’s death, a reckoning for Biden’s agenda on race. By Toluse Olorunnipa, Scott Clement and Emily Guskin / Wash Post
Why philanthropic funding strongly favors white colleges over HBCUs. By Marc Ramirez / USA Today
WH Plan To Combat Antisemitism Takes On Centuries Of Hatred, Discrimination And Lynching In America. By Pamela S. Nadell / TPM
How AI could be misused to persecute religious minorities worldwide. By David Curry / RNS
‘War by Other Means’ highlights 4 pacifists who resisted World War II. By Allyson Winter-Polman / NCR
O for a Thousand Tongues of Fire. By Hannah King / Christianity Today
Social Welfare and the Politics of Race in the Post-Civil War South. By Ryan W. Keating / AAIHS
Ultra Violence. By Nelson Lichtenstein / Dissent
“Education Leads to Liberation”: Nikole Hannah-Jones on The 1619 Project & Teaching Black History. Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
America’s strength is learning through history — not rewriting it. By Ken Chenault and Ken Frazier / Wash Post
Black Military Movies You Should Watch This Memorial Day. By Noah A. McGee / The Root
Tina Turner, Magnetic Singer of Explosive Power, Is Dead at 83. By William Grimes / NYT
Why We Can Imagine Singing Fish, But Not Black Mermaids. By Arianna Coghill and Sam Van Pykeren / Mother Jones
Spike Lee on “Malcolm X” & How Hollywood Almost Prevented Landmark Film from Being Made. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Jim Brown Should Be Seen Fully, Flaws and All. By Kurt Streeter / NYT
NFL world reacts to Colin Kaepernick announcement. By Kevin Harrish / MSN
College athletes mobilized after George Floyd. Three years later, those groups have evolved. By Glynn A. Hill / Wash Post
