Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Can NBA draft prospects at Overtime Elite disrupt college basketball? By Erin Richards / USA Today
NBC’s Mike Tirico travels 12,000 miles to pull double-duty, hosting Olympics and Super Bowl. By Sam Fortier / Wash Post
The story of four Black NFL players who changed the face of the game. CBS News
Race Inquiry Digest (Feb 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Dark Century. By David Brooks / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Feb 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured How Black families, torn apart during slavery, worked to find one another again. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
Supreme Court Halts Order Requiring Alabama To Redraw Congressional Map. By Nick Visser / HuffPost
Black Lawmakers Urge DOJ To Take ‘Aggressive’ Action Against Voter Restrictions. By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost
America’s political future is in Texas. But will Texas be red or blue? By Chris Chu de León / USA Today
GOP Bets on Black Conservatives As Key to Victory: ‘We Change or We Die.’ By Steve Friess / Newsweek
In his fight against ‘woke’ schools, DeSantis tears at the seams of a diverse Florida. By Tim Craig and Lori Rozsa / Wash Post
Dear White Staffers: It’s Time We Listened. By Jim Swift / The Bulwark
After a half-century of federal oversight, segregated neighborhoods are still pervasive: ABC News analysis. By Mark Nichols / ABC News
Racism and discrimination remain dangerous for Black health, wellness. By Alia E. Dastagir / USA Today
Native Americans are an ‘untapped political force,’ which is why the GOP is fighting to stop them. By SemDem / Daily Kos
1 in 10 Black people in the U.S. are immigrants, new data finds. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
Once again, the police have killed a Black man for legally possessing a gun. By Eugene Robinson / Wash Post
The hate crimes trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers will put racism in the spotlight. By Jamil Smith / Vox
Students are suspended less when their teacher has the same race or ethnicity. By Matthew Shirell / The Conversation
The Man Who Exposed L.A.’s Notorious Sheriff Gangs. By Ethan Brown / New York Magazine
Online Forum with Pew Research on Black Religious Affiliation. By AAIHS Editors
Christena Cleveland shifts from ‘white male God’ to ‘Sacred Black Feminine.’ By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Kentucky archdiocese to be led by bishop who’s fought racism. By AP and RNS
How 18th-century Quakers led a boycott of sugar to protest against slavery. By Julie L. Holcomb / RNS
“Blacks and Jews” authors: “Whoopi is not the enemy” but “it may be too late” for America anyway. By Alison Stine / Salon
Paul Robeson–The Revolutionary. By Tony Pecinovsky / AAIHS
This year, Black History Month is all about the here and now. By Eddie Glaude Jr. / Wash Post
