Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Treasury Department Study: White People Get 90 Percent of the Benefits of Many Tax Breaks. By Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones
Biden admin releases first plan to support Asian American, Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian communities. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
Colorado police and paramedics plead not guilty in Elijah McClain death. By AP and NPR
Historically Black Catholic university announces new medical college to meet dire shortage. By Peter Finney Jr. / NCR
Foundation empties coffers to fund Black paper in Baltimore. By AP and NBC News
Pastor William Barber says Christian nationalism is ‘a form of heresy.’ By John Blake / CNN
Donald Trump is smothering the religious right. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Black Religious Fostering of American Civic Ideals. By R. Drew Smith / AAIHS
A great historian unlocks the key to antisemitism. By Paul Johnson / RNS
Slavery’s Indelible Stain on a White Abolitionist Legend. By Michael Jeffries / NYT
John Hope Franklin and WWII as a Crisis of Democracy. By Thomas Cryer / AAIHS
What A. Philip Randolph Knew About Jobs and Freedom. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
How to Divide the Working Class. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
The five Black governors who came before Maryland’s Wes Moore. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
The Controversy Over Boston’s ‘Embrace’ Memorial to MLK. By Diana Budds / New York Magazine.
Black Music Sunday: Celebrating Sam Cooke’s legacy on his birthday. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
How Earth, Wind and fire Became Symbols of Black Emancipation. By William Kennedy / Grunge
Arthur Duncan, Barrier-Breaking Tap Dancer, Is Dead at 97. By Richard Sandomir / NYT
Baseball’s first plan for Negro League stars: A separate Hall of Fame wing. By Frederic J. Frommer / Wash Post
Bomani Jones Calls an Audible. By Jason Zinoman / NYT
DeMeco Ryans may be the NFL’s next Black coach. Should he want to be? By Kent Babb / Wash Post
On MLK Day, Malcolm Brogdon has a personal civil rights leader to look up to. By Marc J. Spears / Andscape
Florida Gov. DeSantis leads the GOP’s national charge against public education that includes lessons on race and sexual orientation. By Jonathan Feingold / The Conversation
What America’s Thinking- How Black Voters Cast Their Ballots In the 2022 Midterms: Analysis. By Rafael Bernal and Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill
For Black voters, great expectations of America’s lone Black governor. By Ovetta Wiggins ,Erin Cox and Lateshia Beachum / Wash Post
What is Hillsdale College? Florida Gov. DeSantis wants to replicate it. By Nirvi Shah / USA Today
A Georgia Republican Brags That Voter Suppression Helped Them in 2022. By Joan Walsh / The Nation
Supreme Court justices are showing their willingness to boost conservative causes. By Joan Biskupic / CNN
Jackson, Mississippi’s water crisis persists as national attention and help fade away. By Char Adams / NBC News
San Francisco Reparations Committee Recommends One-Time $5M Payment to Longtime Black Residents, An Apology for ‘Decades of Harm.’ By Niko Mann / Atlanta Black Star
