Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Why Trump Potential Cuba Overthrow Paints a Grim Picture for its Black Residents. By Phenix S Halley / The Root
Texas A&M Bans Plato Excerpt From a Philosophy Course. By Beth McMurtrie / The Chronicle of Higher Ed.
America needs a moral reckoning in 2026. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Augustine s African heritage. By Margaret R. Miles / The Christian Century
Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire culture of the US.’ By Charlotte Higgins / The Guardian
The New History of Fighting Slavery. What we learn by tracing rebellions from Africa to the Americas. By Laurent Dubois / The Atlantic
Maryland recommends $100K payments to descendants of lynching victims after study. By Joshua Q. Nelson / Fox News
The Judge Who Sparked a Civil Rights Movement – Explore Black Charleston.
2026 Marks The 100th Anniversary Of Black History Month — A Brief History. By Doug Melville / Forbes
The Timberwolves should not play until ICE violence in Minneapolis is held to account. By Lee Escobedo / The Guardian
The Celtics weren’t supposed to win this year. Jaylen Brown doesn’t care. By Ben Golliver / Wash Post
For NFL’s only Black GM-head coach duo, firings show quarterback matters most. By Jason Reid / Andscape
Black women NFL agents struggle working at agencies — so they create their own. By Martenzie Johnson / Andscape
The Mask as a Symbol of Force, Power, and Unaccountability. By Ronald J. Sheehy, Editor / On Race in America
On Race in America (Jan 24) – Stories, Insight and Perspective
Featured The Art and Politics of Attention-Grabbing. By Ronald J. Sheehy, Editor / On Race in America
Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful. By Susan B. Glasser / The New Yorker
Stephen Miller Is The New Republic’s 2025 Scoundrel of the Year. Greg Sargent / TNR
Trump’s crackdown on the left has decades of precedent. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Why Trump’s EEOC wants to talk to White men about discrimination. By Taylor Telford / Wash Post
MAGA will soon ‘be relegated to the dustbin of history’: Nobel economist. By Sarah K. Burris / AlterNet
Over 20M Americans Set to Lose Healthcare Coverage Jan. 1 After Congress Goes on Recess. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Keisha Lance Bottoms Enters Georgia Governor’s Race, But Can She Succeed Where Stacey Abrams Did not? By Angela Wilson / The Root
4 takeaways from NYC Mayor Mamdani’s inauguration speech. By Marcia Kramer and Mark Prussin / CBS News
Trump’s Attempts to Control Higher Education Follow a Familiar Fascist Playbook. By C.J. Polychroniou / Truthout
UMES President and Former Professor Battle Over Plagiarism, Race, and Retaliation Claims. By Walter Hudson / EduLedger
Dr. Michael Joseph Brown, Renowned Biblical Scholar and Seminary President, Dies. By Jamal Watson / EduLedger
How Oil, Drugs and Immigration Fueled Trump’s Venezuela Campaign. By Edward Wong , Tyler Pager, Charlie Savage, Julian E. Barnes and Maria Abi-Habib / NYT
“Whatever Israel Wants”: Trump Backs Netanyahu’s “Colonial” Wars in Gaza, Iran & Beyond. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
As Russia’s war grinds on, its society is fraying. By Francesca Ebel / Wash Post
In Mamdani’s New York, Muslims become a political and demographic force. By Tim Craig / Wash Post
