Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Eric DeValkenaere: Former Kansas City police officer sentenced to 6 years for killing a Black man during a 2019 traffic incident. By Andy Rose and Aya Elamroussi / CNN
Affirmative Action Is Under Attack. By Jacqueline Lazu / The Progressive
Byron Allen Says White Corporate America Has a ‘Trade Deficit’ with Black America That Must be Fixed. By Finurah Contributor / Atlanta Black Star
How the Catholic Church can better serve the Black community this Lent. By Tevin Williams / NCR
Andrew Young, at 90, views his civic, political roles ‘as a pastorate.’ By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
First Black Univ. of Alabama student dies days after building named for her. By AP and NPR
Mary McLeod Bethune, civil rights pioneer, advised presidents on ‘the problems of my people.’ By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
Let’s kick off Women’s History Month with early Black queens of stage and screen. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Black Hair and the Revolution at Soul Scissors. By Michaela angela Davis / The Atlantic
NFL hires in the Rooney Rule era. By Andscape formerly The Undefeated
Judge approves changes to NFL concussion settlement that ends use of race norms. By Steve Almasy / CNN
Deion Sanders says journalist calling him “Deion” was “disrespectful. By Andrew Bucholtz / NCAA
We Need a New Language for Talking About Race. By Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 10) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Fighting back against CRT panic: Educators organize around the threat to academic freedom. By Kathryn Joyce / Salon
Can Letitia James Beat the Two Meanest Men in Politics? By Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine
How Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nick Fuentes Are Easing White Power into the GOP Mainstream. By Ali Breland / Mother Jones
What Ketanji Brown Jackson’s guidance counselor missed. By Michele L. Norris / Wash Post
Will Asian Americans Bolt From the Democratic Party? By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
How the Mainstream Movement Against Gender-Based Violence Fails Black Workers and Survivors. By Madison Pauly / Mother Jones
‘So Much Hatred’: Jury Foreman Shaken by Evidence in Arbery Trial. By Richard Fausset and Tariro Mzezewa / NYT
For Black Americans, living longer impacts health and wealth. By Kristopher J. Brooks / CBS News
House passes bill making lynching a federal hate crime. By Cristina Marcos / The Hill
Meet entrepreneurs of color building Tulsa’s former Black Wall Street into hot, new tech hub. By Catherine Thorbecke and Samara Lynn / ABC News
How to be an Ignatian anti-racist this Lent. By Matt Kappadakunnel / NCR
This is our Jewish superhero. By Jeffrey Saikin / Religion News
King Center class on how MLK’s nonviolence philosophy remains viable today. By Elliott C MClaughlin / CNN
Black History Month Is Over. What About the Black Future? By Janell Ross / Time
A year after the centennial of the Tulsa Massacre, reparations are a distant hope. By Jesse Washington / Andscape
My Family Lost Our Farm During Japanese Incarceration. I Went Searching for What Remains. By Ruth Chizuko Murai / Mother Jones
Civil rights leaders of 1961 about resisting injustice today. By Mike Thompson / USA Today
