Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Bill Wright, Who Broke a Color Barrier in Golf, Dies at 84. By Richard Sandomir / NYT
Atlanta Dream Are Sold After Players’ Revolt Against Kelly Loeffler. By Sopan Deb and Kevin Draper /NYT
Democrats Need H.R. 1 and the New VRA to Protect Voting Rights. By Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 8) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin brings experience dealing with racism, extremism to Pentagon. By Lisa Martinez / ABC News
The Republican Party Is Now in Its End Stages. By Tom Nichols / The Atlantic
“Renegades” Podcast Review: Obama and Springsteen Are Here to Lull America. By Lauren Michele Jackson / The New Yorker
Kamala Harris Can Save the $15 Minimum Wage. By Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone
Meet The Voting Rights Heavy-Hitters That Biden Has Picked To Lead DOJ. By Tierney Sneed / TPM
New US envoy to UN gets red carpet welcome from Russia. By Edith M. Lederer. By AP and ABC News
Criminal Justice Is a State Issue. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Not One Republican Asked Deb Haaland About Her Vision For Indian Country. By Chris D’Angelo / HuffPost
TIAA is the first company in Fortune 500 history to have two Black CEOs in a row. By Jena McGregor / Wash Post
Black women feel outsize burden from the Covid-19 economy, survey finds. By Michelle Fox and Sharon Epperson / NBC News
Who’s really Latina? A recent controversy draws outrage over identity, appropriation. By Raul A Reyes / NBC News
College dropout donates $20 million to the historically Black university he couldn’t afford 60 years ago. By Morgan Winsor/ABCNews
How Black people in the 19th century used photography as a tool for social change. By Samantha Hill / The Conversation
Photos: A look back at the courageous Harlem Hellfighters of WWI. By Radhika Chalasani and Indira Babic / ABC News
At William & Mary, a school for free and enslaved Black children is rediscovered. By Joe Heim / Wash Post
Slavery In The U.S.: The Ignored History Of A Railroad To Mexico To Seek Freedom. By John Burnett / NPR
The Cherokee Nation acknowledges that descendants of people once enslaved by the tribe should also qualify as Cherokee. By Harmeet Kaur / CNN
America’s first post-World War II race riot led to the near-lynching of Thurgood Marshall. By Chris Lamb / Wash Post
Black Americans reconnect with roots in emotional trips to Ghana’s ‘Door of No Return. ‘By Candace Smith, Aude Soichet, Jessica Hopper, Ashley Riegle, and Marlene Lenthang / ABC News
Teaching Students A New Black History. By Anya Kamenetz / NPR
Golden Globes facing criticism for lack of diversity. By Joe Fryer / Today
‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ Movie Review: Streaming on Hulu. By K. Austin Collins / Rolling Stone
Curtis Mayfield and ‘we people who are darker than blue.’ By Denise Oliver Velez / DailyKos
Howard’s Larry Scott said no to Nick Saban and Alabama to try to rebuild football program. By Adam Rittenberg / The Undefeated
One hope for the next generation of Black athletes. By Kevin Carroll / The Undefeated
LeBron James found voice on social issues after Trayvon Martin’s death. By Jeff Zillgitt / USA Today
Tiger Woods and Another Terrible Turn of Fate. By Kurt Streeter / NYT
