Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Shedeur Sanders, Jalen Hurts and a trip worth taking. By William C. Rhoden / Andscape
How bigotry crushed the dreams of an all-Black Little League team. By Chris Lamb / The Conversation
News about the Colin Kaepernick doc by Spike Lee is terribly sad. By Mike Freeman / USA Today
Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was.’ By Zolan Kanno-Youngs / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force. By Ezra Klein / NYT Podcast
Three Republican-led states to send hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington. By AP and NPR
Trump’s Selective Stance on Justice: Redemption for Some, Scorn for Others. By Erica L. Green / NYT
The GOP plot to gain 40 seats without winning any more votes. By Russell Payne / Salon
Trump Administration Scraps Research Into Health Disparities. By Roni Caryn Rabin and Irena Hwang / NYT
Columbia Will Make Direct Payments to Jewish Employees. Not All of Them Are Happy About It. By Sonel Cutler / Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Judge Halts White House Effort to Defund Schools With D.E.I. Programs. By Dana Goldstein / NYT
Oklahoma to begin controversial test to weed out ‘woke’ teacher applicants today. By Sunlen Serfaty / CNN
Trump killed affirmative action. His base might not like what comes next. By Noel King and Gabrielle Berbey / Vox
In Alaska, Trump gifts Putin more time to grind down Ukraine. By Nick Paton Walsh / CNN
Israeli Plan to Expand Settlements and “Bury” Palestinian State Draws International Condemnation. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Blackwater founder to deploy nearly 200 personnel to Haiti. By AP and NPR
The Future of Immigration in America—After Trump Is Gone. By Jonathan van Harmelen / TNR
Pete Hegseth’s Pastor Wants ‘Spiritual Warfare’ Waged On All. By Josh Kovensky / TPM
100 days of Pope Leo XIV: An early test for the first American pontiff. By Claire Giangravé / RNS
Hundreds of Catholic sisters walk Atlanta streets to pray for social, environmental justice. By Fiona Murphy / NCR
A new reading of Sherman’s march shows how enslaved people sought to free themselves. By Adria R. Walker / The Guardian
At Alabama plantation, families of enslavers and enslaved strike a deal. By Emmanuel Felton / Wash Post
North Carolina Confederate Monument Goes Too Far, Lawsuit Says. By Audra D. S. Burch / NYT
As civil rights books are pulled from school shelves, one Alabama town is refusing to forget its story. By Annabel Grossman / Independent
Magic City docuseries highlights strip clubs’ influence on hip-hop. By James R. Sanders / NBC News
ESPN will not air Spike Lee’s docuseries on quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Guardian Staff
The shooting at NFL headquarters raises hard truths, but no easy answers. By Jerry Brewer / Wash Post
Travis Hunter’s GPA Proves His Academic Commitment Is As Strong As His NFL Aspirations. By Kandiss Edwards / Black Enterprise
Coco Gauff lets frustration out with racket smash in error-heavy Cincinnati Open loss. By Rory Robinson / The Mirror
A History of National Guard Deployments in Heavily Black U.S. Cities. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 25) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The spirit of Old Dixie rises in D.C. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post