Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
‘Descendant’ and ‘The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks’ review: Two documentaries provide new windows into chapters in Black history. By Brian Lowry / CNN
The Legal Mind of Constance Baker Motley. By Tomiko Brown-Nagin / AAIHS
Americans living in Ghana explain why they made the move to Africa. By Pam Rentz / Andscape
A Pioneering Black Ballerina’s Life Story Comes to the Stage. By Kayla Stewart / NYT
How Deion Sanders is changing the future of college football at Jackson State. By Jon Wertheim
Simone Biles: How the Olympic gold medalist’s life led to mentorship. By Simone Biles / USA Today
Charles Barkley signs ‘life-altering deal’ to stay with TNT’s NBA show. By Des Bieler / Wash Post
The U.S. Thinks ‘It Can’t Happen Here.’ It Already Has. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated. By Michael H. Keller and David D. Kirkpatrick / NYT
Five takeaways from the Georgia Senate debate. By Dan Merica and Gregory Kreig / CNN
A Revealing Racist Rant in L.A. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
How DeSantis Remade Florida’s Congressional Districts. By Joshua Kaplan / Propublica
Georgia midterms: Black men could be the key to Stacey Abrams’ win. By Mabinty Quarshie and Phillip M. Bailey / USA Today
Civil Rights Lawyers: Future of Affirmative Action is in Question. By Liann Herder / Diverse Issues in Higher Ed.
It’s taking more time to cast a ballot in US elections – and even longer for Black and Hispanic voters. By Jonathan Coopersmith / The Conversation
Workplace Anti-Bias Trainings Aren’t Enough. By Insiya Hussain / The Progressive
These are the faces of the rising number of Black gun owners in the U.S. By Christian K. Lee and Ciera Crawford / NPR
Farmers who faced discrimination are eligible for $2.2 billion from the USDA. By Ximena Bustillo / NPR
He Marched At The Nazi Rally In Charlottesville. Then He Went Back To Being A Cop. By Christopher Mathias / HuffPost
The dangerous paradox of the religious polarization of American politics. By Bill Schneider / The Hill
Scholar and preacher Jonathan Lee Walton named next president of Princeton Seminary. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Supreme deceit: How Sam Alito snuck medieval state Christianity into the Dobbs opinion. By David Boyle / Salon
Herschel Walker and the Platform of Cheap Grace. By Bonnie Kristan / Christianity Today
How World War II Looked to African Americans. By Jennifer Szalai / NYT
Nearly ‘Erased by History’: African Americans Search for Lost Graves. By Audra D. S. Burch / NYT
What My Students Don’t Know About Their Own History. By Arlene Davila / NYT
