Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
‘He’s not the king of the world’: Venus and Serena Williams’ half-sister says ‘King Richard’ only tells ‘half the story.’ By Ashley Turner / Yahoo News
Lee Elder, Who Broke a Golf Color Barrier, Dies at 87. By Richard Goldstein / NYT
Rittenhouse, McMichaels verdicts show limits of NBA progressivism. By Martenzie Johnson / The Undefeated
The Teenagers Getting Six Figures to Leave Their High Schools for Basketball. By Bruce Schoenfeld / NYT
The Missing Voices In The Panic Over Critical Race Theory. By Melinda D. Anderson / HuffPost
Race Inquiry Digest (Dec 9) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Joe Louis’ decision to fight for the segregated Navy was deeply unpopular — until Pearl Harbor was bombed. By Randy Roberts / The Undefeated
Why race didn’t enter the trial over Ahmaud Arbery’s murder. By Fabiola Cineas / Vox
In Minneapolis Schools, White Families Are Asked to Help Do the Integrating. By Sarah Mervosh / NYT
After Rittenhouse, protesters are asking: What about sex-trafficking victim Chrystul Kizer? By Anne Branigin and and Jessica Contrera / The Lilly
White women backed Glenn Youngkin for Virginia governor. That shouldn’t have come as a surprise, experts say. By Karina Elwood / Wash Post
Judge vacates death sentences of Pervis Payne, who was to be executed for a crime he says he didn’t commit. By Dakin Andone / CNN
W.E.B. Du Bois’ only grandchild, Yolande Du Bois Irvin, dies at 89. By Felix Carroll / The Berkshire Eagle
$3 million Maryland grant will tackle colleges’ leadership ‘caste system. By Lauren Laumpkin / Wash Post
Spreading the wealth: Black-owned investment firms tackle the racial finance gap. By Patrice Worthy / The Guardian
Is Black Twitter The New Green Book? By Alexandra Jane / The Root
From slavery to Jim Crow to George Floyd: Virginia universities face a long racial reckoning. By Nick Anderson and Susan Svrluga / Wash Post
Enslaved to a Founding Father, She Sought Freedom in France. By Martha S. Jones / NYT
Former slaves brought American Thanksgiving to Liberia — and rebooted it. By Vicky Hallett / NPR
The Black people who lived in Walden Woods long before Henry David Thoreau. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
Hanukkah’s darker origins feel more relevant in time of rising antisemitism, intense interest in identity. By Michelle Boorstein / Wash Post
Burial Ground Under the Alamo Stirs a Texas Feud. By Simon Romero / NYT
Permission to Imagine. By Lovia Gyarkye / Dissent Magazine
Smokey Robinson stars in new Lifetime movie ‘Miracle in Motor City.’ By Julie Hinds / Detroit Free Press
Inside Soul Train Awards 2021: BET celebrates 50th anniversary of Soul Train getting down. CBS News Video
Chance The Rapper, Dionne Warwick Team Up on ‘Nothing’s Impossible.’ By Ilana Kaplan / RollingStone
Minstrel songs like ‘The Eyes of Texas’ were once common on college football Saturdays in the South. By Carrie Allen Tipton / The Undefeated
