Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Hector Lopez, Who Broke a Baseball Color Barrier, Dies at 93. By Bruce Weber / NYT
‘There Are Two Americas Now: One With a B.A. and One Without.’ By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 13) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured It’s one of the most radical and prophetic speeches in American history. And nobody knows about it. By John Blake / CNN
Supreme Court holds investiture ceremony for Ketanji Brown Jackson. By Lawrence Hurley / NBC News
Ron DeSantis’s Race Problem. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
The Racial Divide Herschel Walker Couldn’t Outrun. By John Branch / NYT
The top issues Latino voters are worried about in the 2022 midterms. By Christian Paz / Vox
Alabama’s high-stakes Supreme Court fight over racial gerrymandering in Merrill v. Milligan. By Ian Millhiser / Vox
Majority of Asian Americans in Texas want to vote, but don’t feel like they’ve been heard. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
Hurricane Ian: Fort Myers Black residents suffering amid devastation. By Nada Hassanein / USA Today
Why aren’t flagship universities enrolling more Black students from their state? By Meredith Kolodner / NBC News
Michael Flynn, Trump and America’s Christian nationalism threat. By Bradley Onishi / NBC News
How “religious freedom” became a right-wing assault on equality and the rule of law. By Paul Rosenberg / Salon
Survey: Confederate memorials still divide Americans and religion is a big predictor. By Yonat Shimron / RNS
‘Sisters in the Wilderness’ after 30 years: Resiliency and survival as the legacy of womanist theology. By LaRyssa D. Herrington / NCR
Can Liberal Evanston, Illinois, Atone for Its Racist Past? By Kari Lydersen / The New Republic
Native Americans’ decades long struggle for control over sacred lands is making progress. By Rosalyn R. Lapier / The Conversation
The CIA honors Underground Railroad hero Harriet Tubman as model spy with new statue. By Dan De Luce / NBC News
My great-grandparents died in the Holocaust and were almost forgotten. By Zoe Zolbrod / Salon
The Lexicon Origins of People of Color. By Warren Milteer Jr. / AAIHS
The Case for Leaving America to Escape Racism. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
‘Till’ Review – Emmett Till Biopic Does the Best It Can With Tough Material. By Kyndall Cunningham / The Daily Beast
Whoopi Goldberg Will Not Shut Up, Thank You Very Much. By Jazmine Hughes / NYT Magazine
Where are the Black musicians in the country’s largest orchestras? By Jeff Lunden / NPR
A New Academy Exhibit Attempts to Atone for Hollywood’s Past. By Ed Rampell / The Progressive Magazine
How ‘positional segregation’ keeps Black coaches stuck in NFL pipeline. By Tom Schad, Mike Freeman and Steve Berkowitz / USA Today
