Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
‘You Can Feel the Spirits’: Historic Black Cemetery Rediscovered and Helps Tell the Story of a Georgia Town’s Racist Past. By Kavontae Smalls /Atlanta Black Star
How ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ honors the legacy of Black Navy pilots. By Arturo Conde / NBC News
Maya Cade Created The Black Film Archive With Love. By Candice Frederick / HuffPost
New book on the ‘Black Fives’ restores the buried history of basketball. By Jesse Washington / Andscape
Will face time with NFL owners result in minority employees filling top-tier jobs at higher rates? By Jason Reid / Andscape
When “Jackie Robinson” Is Used as a Racial Slur. By Dave Zirin / The Nation
Millionaire Stephen Curry Earns More Than Serena Williams Per Year Without Stepping Foot on the Court. By Anujtalwalka / Essential Sports
Buffalo Shows the Double Terror of Being Black. By Ibram X. Kendi / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest (May 30) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Cowardice is the point of white supremacy, too. By Damon Young / Wash Post Magazine White supremacy is, essentially, an ecosystem built around the…
House passes bill to aid fight against domestic terrorism after Buffalo supermarket shooting. By Benjamin Siegel / ABC News
Buffalo Schools Grapple With Racist Attack. By Katie Reilly / Time
The long struggle to bring a supermarket to a nearly all-Black Buffalo neighborhood. By Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN
Study: The Pandemic Worsened Racial Achievement Gaps. By Giulia Heyward / Capital B
On Race, Herschel Walker’s Offer of Absolution Divides Georgia Voters. By Jonathan Weisman /NYT
Summer Lee, Declaring Victory in Pennsylvania, Puts Dark Money Democrats on Notice. By Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair
At Wells Fargo, a Quest to Increase Diversity Leads to Fake Job Interviews. By Emily Fitter / NYT
Cancer deaths in Black people drop; still higher than others. Lindsey Tanner / AP and ABC News
Buffalo shooting should be a wake-up call for white Catholics. By John Gehring / NCR
How the Early Church Dealt with Racial and Cultural Division. By Rasool Berry / Christianity Today
Leading Psychologist Bridges Trauma Healing and the Black Church. By Jacqueline J. Holness / Christianity Today
The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers. By By Catherine Porter, Constant Méheut, Matt Apuzzo and Selam Gebrekidan / NYT
How deep-rooted White fear throughout America’s history allows massacres like Buffalo to happen. By Brandon Tensley / CNN
Racists Once Terrorized This Georgia County. Diversity Made It Prosper. By Jonathan Weisman / NYT
The Memory of George Floyd Is Literally Fading Across America. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Reparations for Black Americans? Harvard case shows history’s horror. By Tiffany Cusaac-Smith/ USA Today
Historic Enslaved Grave Sites in Louisiana Could Be Disrupted. By Seth Freed Wessler / Propublica
