Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
If the Kids Had Been White, Would Any of This Have Happened? By Karim Doumar / ProPublica
Shades of Black: Ethnic Diversity in Black American Religious Life. By Kijan Bloomfield / AAIHS
How Biden’s faith-based office has advanced his vow to heal the soul of the nation. By Chris Coons / RNS
Black gay priest in NYC challenges Catholicism from within. By AP and NBC News
Latino vote not monolithic, though Catholic Latinos lean Democratic, say panelists. By Melissa Cedillo / NCR
First Black Congressman honored at U.S. Capitol. By Jaz Garner / CBS News
The Gilded Age’ Explores a Rarely Seen Chapter of Black History. By Dave Itzkoff / NYT
Inside effort to restore resort town that was once paradise for Black Americans. NBC News
Beaten by the Klan in 1963, a Black man just spoke to the White pastor who helped rescue him. By Martin Dobrow / Wash Post
The Philadelphia Inquirer set out to become an ‘anti-racist’ newspaper. That meant taking a tough look at its history. By Margaret Sullivan / Wash Post
The Zora Neale Hurston We Don’t Talk About By Lauren Michele Jackson / The New Yorker
When Eartha Kitt Disrupted the Ladies Who Lunch. Film by Scott Calonico, Text by Lauren Elyse Garcia / The New Yorker
50 Years After Recording “No Knock,” Gil Scott-Heron’s Protest Song Contains a Prescription. By Daniel King / Mother Jones
Review: In ‘Black No More,’ Race Is Skin Deep, but Racism Isn’t. By Jesse Green / NYT
Snoop Dogg is converting Death Row Records into the first NFT music label. By Chris Morris / Fortune
How The Natural Hair Movement Has Failed Black Women. By Esther Akutekha / HuffPost
Blaxploitation classics like ‘Shaft’ radiate Black Power 50 years on. By Marco della Cava and Rasha Ali / USA Today
NFL owners need a jolt to make fairer decisions in hiring Black coaches and executives. By William C Rhoden / The Undefeated
Aaron Donald, the Super Bowl’s true MVP, finally gets his ring. By Sally Jenkins / Wash Post
Was the Super Bowl Halftime Show a “Missed Opportunity”? By Dave Zirin / The Nation
Snowboarding was his passion. Making the sport more inclusive became his mission. By Dustin Jones / NPR
Utah Jazz Scholarship program makes every win a little more significant. By Marc J. Spears / The Undefeated
Travis Hunter commits to JSU: Are more Black athletes choosing HBCUs? By Cydney Henderson / USA Today
How Black families, torn apart during slavery, worked to find one another again. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
No, America is not on the verge of another civil war. But that doesn’t mean it can’t learn from its last one. By Henry Olsen / Wash Post
The US supreme court is letting racist discrimination run wild in the election system. By Carol Anderson / The Guardian
In a flawed system, a Black prosecutor wonders if she’s pursuing justice or being complicit. By Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. / Wash Post
Teaching Black history is not an attack on White Americans. By William J. Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove / CNN
Affirmative Action and America’s ‘Cosmetically Diverse’ College Campuses. By The Arguement / NYT Podcast
Amid nationwide enrollment drops, some HBCUs are growing. So are threats. By Lauren Lumpkin, Nick Anderson and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel / Wash Post
