Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Two Hatreds Empower Anti-Semitism on the Right. By David French / The Atlantic
Where $30 Billion to Fix Systemic Racism Actually Goes. By Emily Flitter / NYT
Whites now more likely to die from covid than Blacks: Why the pandemic shifted. By Akilah Johnson and Dan Keating / Wash Post
America has a Black sperm donor shortage. Black women are paying the price. By Amber Ferguson / NYT
A push in Congress to help Black WW II vets who didn’t benefit from the GI Bill. By Guil Lawrence / NPR
HBCU bomb threats drive frustration. No FBI word on arrests. Tiffany Cusaac-Smith and Francesca Chambers / USA Today
The Political Gospel of Raphael Warnock. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells / The New Yorker
America’s religious divide isn’t really about religion. By E.J. Dionne Jr. / Wash Post
Theological pandemic: Why evangelicals embraced Jan. 6 and the Big Lie. By Nathaniel Manderson / Salon
A slaveholding senator, an 1879 wedding and a Black family’s mystery. By Julie Zauzmer Weil / Wash Post
What can reparations for slavery look like in the U.S.? One man has ideas. By Sacha Pfeiffer and Michael Levitt / NPR
Kansas City still suffers the failures of school desegregation experiments. By David Von Drehle / Wash Post
How Toni Morrison Wrote Her Most Challenging Novel. By Morgan Parker / NYT
A pioneering Black composer gets her due, 110 years after her debut. By Michael Andor Brodeur / Wash Post
A Brooklyn school’s students fought to add AP African American Studies to their curriculum. By Janelle Griffith / NBC News
A brief history of Black American folk music. By Estelle Caswell and Halley Brown / Vox
‘Black Adam’ Review. By Sonny Bunch / The Bulwark
After winning silver at the Montreal Olympics, two Black women were treated as heroes in their Southern hometowns. By Andrew Maraniss / Andscape
Rest in peace, Tony Brown. By Jerry Bembry / Andscape
Author Jeff Pearlman on how Herschel Walker’s football career shaped his political one. By Ben Jacobs / Vox
Beer and baseball: Yurok Tribe tells its story through landmark sports deal. By Halllie Golden / The Guardian
How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good. By Steve Phillips / The Guardian
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 31) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The College-Admissions Merit Myth. By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
As midterms near, immigrants and voters of color being targeted with rampant misinformation. By Areeba Shah / Salon
Abrams and Warnock pursue very different strategies in key Georgia races. By Sahil Kapur / NBC News
Florida Senate debate: Takeaways from Marco Rubio and Val Demings. By Zac Anderson / Tallahassee Democrat
