Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
This new play details historic Tampa lunch counter sit-ins. By Maggie Duffy / Tampa Bay Times
Why Historically Black Fisk University Needs An Art Museum Now. By Marybeth Gasman / Forbes
Meet the Black musician behind Elvis’ biggest songs, who had to give up his writing credits and never met The King in person. By Brianna Holt / Insider
Black Music Sunday: These Black divas sang a classical storm of opera. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Lance Reddick, star of ‘The Wire’ and ‘John Wick,’ dead at 60. By Carson Blackwelder, and Stephen Iervolino / GMA
Jaylen Brown on Basketball, Activism and Being Black in Boston. By Sopan Deb / NYT
Michael Jordan in talks to sell majority stake in Hornets, sources say. By Adrian Wojnarowski / ESPN
Being a Black women’s basketball player in the Ivy League. By Sean Hurd / Andscape
Ibram X. Kendi says a backlash has ‘crushed’ the nation’s racial reckoning. But there’s one reason he remains hopeful. By John Blake / CNN
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 30) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured How Can We Be a Country That Does This to Our Children? By Esau McCaulley / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Florida NAACP, Gov. Ron DeSantis clash over proposed travel advisory. Governor call it a “joke.” By Zac Anderson / USA Today
The Boys Who Cried ‘Woke!’ By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
There is no secret plan: First they came for trans people. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
The MAGA-fication of North Idaho College. By Charles Homans / NYT
Black Voters in Chicago Look for a Candidate and a Path Forward on Fighting Crime. By Julie Bosman / NYT
St. Petersburg’s structural racism study authors are eager to see action. By Colleen Wright / Tampa Bay Times
Sewage Crisis in Alabama’s Black Belt Spawns Complaint. By Adam Mahoney / Capital B
Guidelines Warn Against Racial Categories in Genetic Research. By Carl Zimmer / NYT
San Francisco to consider Black reparations plan, including $5 million per person. By CBS News
Man serving 400-year prison sentence exonerated after new probe finds wrongful conviction. By Kiara Alfonseca / ABC News
Sudden unexpected infant deaths surged among Black babies in 2020. By Deidre McPhillips / CNN
Mormons know how the Church sanctioned racial exclusion. That policy has a paper trail. By Jana Riess / RNS
Young people flourish where faith leaders see color. By Nabil Tueme / RNS
Five charts that explain the desperate turn to MAGA among conservative white Christians. By Robert P. Jones / RNS
For FBI Legend J. Edgar Hoover, Christian Nationalism Was The Gospel Truth, Argues New Book. By Bob Smietana / RNS
Museums and Universities Pledge to Return Native American Remains. By Logan Jaffe, Mary Hudetz and Ash Ngu / ProPublica
Native American powwow returns to U-Md. to showcase culture, history. By Dana Hedgpeth / Wash Post
The Mississippi Delta is pushing civil rights tourism to help protect its past. By Debbie Elliott and Kirk Siegler / NPR
Awards shows, like the Oscars, know they lack diversity. So why are they so slow to change? By Leah Asmelash / CNN
NFL Owners Are Making an Example of Lamar Jackson. By Jemele Hill / The Atlantic
