Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Let us rejoice today with music honoring and celebrating the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Lionel Richie to receive Gershwin Prize for pop music. Jonathan Landrum Jr / PBS
Denzel Washington wants viewers to look past Macbeth’s race. By Arturo Conde / NBC News
Mike Tomlin shows how rare real opportunity is for Black coaches. By Jerry Brewer / Wash Post
Texans fired David Culley, and NFL goes on acting like it’s inclusive. By Nancy Armour / USA Today
He Makes Tom Brady’s Offense Work. By Robert O’Connell / NYT
Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and Jan. 6 offer two competing visions for America. By John Blake / CNN
Race Inquiry Digest (Jan 24) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Black Mississippi senators protest bill to ban critical race theory. By AP and NPR
Race Inquiry Digest (Jan 20) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Failure on Voting Rights Would Be Historic. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Biden must make clear what Republicans know: The fight for democracy is a struggle over racism. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Georgia takes center stage as Biden’s visit kicks off year of political battles. By Eric Bradner / CNN
Imagine another American Civil War, but this time in every state. By Ron Elving / NPR
Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick wins House seat in Florida special election. By David Weigel / Wash Post
Barrier-breaking Black prosecutor faces deadly racist threats. By Christina Carrega / CNN
Symone Sanders, former spokeswoman for Vice President Harris, takes job at MSNBC. By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
From the Capitol insurrection to the Taliban takeover: The defining religion stories of 2021. By RNS Staff
Can I get an amen? Black Americans’ faith, religious practice detailed in Pew study. By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News
Nikole Hannah-Jones on the power of collective memory. By Code Switch / NPR
The disturbing parallels between the 2020s and 1940s in the U.S. By John Stoehr / Salon
More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation. By Julie Zauzmer Weil , Adrian Blanco and Leo Dominguez / Wash Post
Senate Passes Bill To Honor Emmett Till And His Mother. By AP and HuffPost
They came, they saw, they reckoned? By Jennifer Chudy and Hakeem Jefferson / NPR Podcast
Ida B. Wells, writer and activist, is honored with a Barbie doll. By Elizabeth Blair / NPR
Maya Angelou quarters now being distributed in the US. By Jordan Mendoza / USA Today
César Chávez’s march that changed it all is the topic of a new graphic novel. By Arturo Conde / NBC News
In Zora Neale Hurston’s Essays, the Nonfiction of a Nonconformist. By Dwight Garner / NYT
