Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
No, America is not on the verge of another civil war. But that doesn’t mean it can’t learn from its last one. By Henry Olsen / Wash Post
The US supreme court is letting racist discrimination run wild in the election system. By Carol Anderson / The Guardian
In a flawed system, a Black prosecutor wonders if she’s pursuing justice or being complicit. By Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. / Wash Post
Teaching Black history is not an attack on White Americans. By William J. Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove / CNN
Affirmative Action and America’s ‘Cosmetically Diverse’ College Campuses. By The Arguement / NYT Podcast
Amid nationwide enrollment drops, some HBCUs are growing. So are threats. By Lauren Lumpkin, Nick Anderson and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel / Wash Post
Basic income champion Michael Tubbs launches nonprofit to end poverty. By Alejandro Lazo / Recordnet
New doc explores the disparities that fuel Black maternal mortality. By Bianca Brutus / NBC News
Calif. sues Tesla over alleged rampant discrimination against Black employees. By Deepa Shivram / NPR
The growing movement to save Black cemeteries. By Char Adams / NBC News
Black FedEx Driver Says He Was Chased, Shot At By 2 White Men In Mississippi. By Ryan Grenoble / HuffPost
Christian nationalism drove Jan. 6: Now it’s embraced the Big Lie, and wants to conquer America. By Kathryn Joyce / Salon
Separation of church and state? Let’s get real — that’s over. So what do we do now. By Jacques Berlinerblau / Salon
Desmond Tutu showed me what a soul-centered Christian life could look like. by Marybeth Christie Redmond / NCR
Black Christian Faith: Perennial Decline, Respectability, and “the back of the church.” By Vaughn A. Booker / AAIHS
Study: Clergy feel ill-equipped to help Black and Latino congregants with mental health. By Alejandra Molina / RNS
‘What Took Us So Long?’: Black Caucus Members Propose Awarding 200,000 Black Civil War Vets Congressional Gold Medal. By Nicole Duncan-Smith / Atlanta Black Star
University of Alabama removes name of Klansman from a campus building. By Nick Anderson / Wash Post
“American Reckoning”: 55 Years After KKK Murder of Mississippi NAACP Leader, Case Remains Unsolved. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
This Early Film Depicting Black Love Went Hidden For Years. By Brittany Wong / HuffPost
10 years after Whitney Houston’s death, what have we learned about her — and ourselves? By Allison Stewart / Wash Post
A Black Music collection dedicated to our loves and lovers, on Valentine’s Day and all year round. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Why Toni Morrison Books Are Frequent Targets of Book Bans. By Olivia B. Waxman / Time
‘Going At It the Wrong Way’: Deion Sanders Says You Can’t Convince Old Billionaires Already Stuck In Their Ways to Hire a Black Coach, So He Offers Another Option. By TSL Contributor / Atlanta Black Star
‘We don’t look like them’: Black figure skaters face barriers to entry from a young age. By Kayla Steinberg / NBC News
Faith Leaders Demand NFL Move Next Super Bowl From Arizona For ‘Racist’ Vote Crackdown. By Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost
