Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
The ‘Woke Mind Virus’ Is Eating Away at Republicans’ Brains. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
What I’ll Remember Most About Tucker Carlson? His Ability to Unleash the Haters. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
Culture wars intensify as legislators face censures, expulsions. By Kiara Alfonseca / ABC News
Black Va. lawmakers, NAACP demand ouster of Youngkin’s diversity chief. By Ian Shapira / Wash Post
Voting Rights Group Sues Florida For Registration Process That Sets Former Felons Up To Fail. By Kaila Philo / TPM
Newly Right-Wing N. Carolina Supreme Court Reverses Its 2022 Gerrymandering Decision. By Kate Riga / TPM
South Carolina Democratic Party elects first Black woman chair. By AP and NBC News
Howard University names scholar of the African diaspora as its new president. By Nick Anderson / Wash Post
From TikTok to ’90s rap, Jamaal Bowman is learning to raise his voice in Congress. By Scott Wong / NBC News
Roy Wood Jr’s Surprisingly Personal and Scathing White House Correspondents’ Dinner Roast. By Jennifer M. Wood / The Daily Beast
Bishop T.D. Jakes Announces $1 Billion Partnership With Wells Fargo To Create Mixes-Income Housing Developments. By Sharelle Burt / Black Enterprise
Caste discrimination laws remain fraught. Here’s why they shouldn’t be. By South Asia Scholar Activist Collective / RNS
‘Anti-Asian Racism’ names the sin of white supremacy in Catholic Church. By Clarissa V. Aljentera / NCR
From poverty to fame, Harry Belafonte never lost his moral compass. By Michele L. Norris / Wash Post
Confederate Tributes Are Losing Their Patron Saint. By Brent Staples / NYT
Black Resistance and Lynching Memory: An Interview with Mari N. Crabtree Part I. By Menika Dirkson / AAIHS
Emmett Till’s accuser, Carolyn Bryant Donham, has died – here’s how the 1955 murder case helped define civil rights history. By Davia W. Houck / The Conversation
AP course in African American Studies brings Black history to life for these Tulsa students. By Nicquel Terry Ellis / CNN
‘Dear Mama’ is Tupac and Afeni Shakur’s beautiful, tragic opus. By Justin Tinsley / Andscape
Cleopatra was not Black, Egypt tells Netflix ahead of new series. By Charlene Gubash and Patrick Smith / NBC News
What Little Richard Deserved. By Hanif Abdurraqib / The New Yorker
What John Blake discovered when he met the White mother he never knew. By John Blake / CNN
Phil Jackson’s insults about Black athletes are nothing new. By David Dennis Jr. / Andscape
In ‘Air,’ Michael Jordan’s silence speaks volumes about the marketing of Black athletes. By A. Joseph Dial / The Conversation
Black quarterbacks make NFL draft history, land in ‘ideal’ spots. By Jason Reid / Andscape
Larry ‘Gator’ Rivers, Longtime Globetrotter Legend, Dies At 73. By AP and HuffPost
Ralph Boston, Who Leaped 27 Feet and Landed in History, Dies at 83. By Glenn Rifkin / NYT
Black American female runners are blazing a new trail in the marathon. By Kelyn Soong / Wash Post
60 years on, King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ relevant as ever, say faith leaders. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Race Inquiry Digest (May 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Clarence Thomas, Harlan Crow And The Original Meaning Of Corruption. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
Race Inquiry Digest (May 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Whose Queen? Netflix and Egypt Spar Over an African Cleopatra. By Vivian Yee / NYT