Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
53 Years After Miles Davis’s Album, a Fresh Spin as ‘London Brew.’ By Marcus J. Moore / NYT
For Black Athletes, March Madness Has Much Higher Stakes. By Derrick Z. Jackson / The Root
Lamar Jackson’s Sin: Not Playing Their Game. By Dave Zirin / The Nation
LeBron James opened a Starbucks, but it’s providing much more than coffee. By Joe Vardon / The Athletic
What Trump’s Legal Woes Mean to Black Americans. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
Race Inquiry Digest (Apr 6) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured How the 1876 presidential election enabled Jim Crow. By Tom Hanks and Jeffery Robinson / Wash Post
A Dream and a Lie: Ron DeSantis’s Twisted Race Pedagogy. By Anthony Conwright / The Nation
Despite the GOP backlash, ‘wokeness’ is winning. By Eugene Robinson / Wash Post
How Big Law and Black Brooklyn Fueled Hakeem Jeffries’s Rise. By Nicholas Fandos / NYT
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Wants To Become The First Black Woman Mayor Of Houston. By Taylor S. Mitchell / HuffPost
U.S. colleges face loss of racial diversity if race-conscious admissions banned, study shows. By Gabriella Borter / Reuters
Autism now more common in Black, Latino children than white in the U.S. By AP and NBC News
TransAfrica Founder Randall Robinson Dies at 81; Opposed South African Apartheid & U.S. Coups in Haiti. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
How Christian Is Christian Nationalism? By Kelefa Sanneh / The New Yorker
Morehouse College Is Giving a Peace Prize to the Prophet. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints / News Release
Public theologian Yolanda Pierce named next dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Grappling With the Overthrow of Reconstruction. By Eric Herschthal / TNR
Slavery and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey. By Rann Miller / AAIHS
Why most Americans oppose reparations for slavery. By Jennifer Ludden / NPR
‘Weathering’ makes the case that the stress of poverty and racism damage health. By Dave Davies / NPR
Black Homeownership Before World War II. By Menika Dirkson / AAIHS
The Black Artists Claiming More Space Than Ever Before. By Emily Lordi / NYT
LeBron James’ promise to Akron gets more ambitious. By Justin Tinsley / Andscape
MLB The Show breaks barrier with Negro League players. By AP and NBC News
A Black man in the women’s Final Four, Kenny Brooks knows exactly who he is. By Jerry Brewer / Wash Post
NFL Network’s treatment of Jim Trotter shows NFL fails on race issues. By Mike Freeman / USA Today
