Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Jack Johnson and Africa: Boxing and Race in Colonial Africa.By Abraham Tapiwa Seda / AAIHS
In Atlanta and Milwaukee, a season without Hank Aaron leaves ‘a void.’ By Michael Lee / Wash Post
Nets say Kyrie Irving is ineligible to play amid drama over his vaccination status. By Scott Neuman / NPR
White America’s “hidden wound” threatens to destroy the country — and not for the first time. Kirk Swearingen / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured How I Learned That Jesus Is Black. By Dante’ Stewart / NYT (Print by Stanley Rayfield)
A New Confederacy: Trump and the Republicans have already seceded. By Lucian K. Truscott IV / Salon
Can America Reform Policing and Fight Crime at the Same Time? By Charles M. Blow / NYT
‘Echoes of the Past’: Study Points to Redlining as a Factor in Premature Birth, Maternal Health. By Joseph P. Williams / US news
When It Costs $53,000 to Vote. by Jesse Wegman / NYT
Justice Department won’t charge officer who shot Jacob Blake. By Victoria Albert / CBS News
A slavery petition was the latest racist incident at this school. Parents and lawmakers are fed up. By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Linh Tran / CNN
California becomes first state to require ethnic studies for high school graduation. By Meryl Kornfield / Wash Post
New York City to Phase Out Its Gifted and Talented Program. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
A Safe Space’: Black Pastors Promote Vaccinations from the Pulpit. By Liam Stack / NYT
Ozy Shows That Serious Black Media Needs a New Business Model. By Lauren Williams / NYT
Why white students are far more likely to graduate than Black students at public universities. By Olivia Sanchez / NBC News
“Until I Am Free”: Keisha Blain on the Enduring Legacy of Voting Rights Pioneer Fannie Lou Hamer. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
One of the nation’s oldest Black churches unearthed in Virginia. By Ben Finley / USA Today
Lawrence Reddick and the Communal Acts of Black History. By Stephen G. Hall / AAIHS
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Biden becomes first president to mark day.
‘We’re talking about a big, powerful phenomenon’: Multiracial Americans drive change. By Silvia Foster-Frau, Ted Mellnik, and Adrian Blanco / Wash Post
Fisk’s Jubilee Singers celebrate 150 years of American tradition. By Esohe Osabuohien / NBC News
Philadelphia poet Sonia Sanchez wins Gish Prize. by Erin McCarthy / The Philadelphia Inquirer
Dave Chappelle refuses to evolve. By Justin Tinsley / The Undefeated
Tears of relief show how far Fury was pushed by Wilder in fight for the ages. By Donald McRae / The Guardian
Full Circle Everest hopes to be the 1st all-Black team to climb Everest. By Sharon Pruitt-Young / NPR
