Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
In Oak Bluffs, Strangers Become Family. By J. Nailah Avery / NYT
My grandmother left South Carolina during Jim Crow. My trip there taught me about her — and me. By Laylah Amatullah Barrayn / The Lily
The Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka’s First Novel Since 1973. By Juan Gabriel Vásquez / NYT
The Other Side of Black Success in Martin Kilson’s Odyssey. By Joshua L. Crutchfield / AAIHS
‘Dear White People’ creator says racism’s ‘evergreen’ presence keeps series relevant. By Lamar Dawson / NBC News
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Offers Harsh Solution For NBA’s Vaccine Refusers. By Ron Dicker / HuffPost
Robin Montgomery, the future of women’s tennis. By Jerry Bembrey / The Undefeated
Lewis Hamilton’s legacy will be about more than 100 victories. By Andrew Lawrence / The Undefeated
Teenage basketball stars are making big money before they even get to the NBA. By Christian Red / NBC News
R. Kelly Found Guilty On All Counts In Sexual Abuse Trial. By Alanna Vagianos and Taryn Finley / HuffPost
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 7) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Democracy Crisis: Could This Be Joe Biden’s Big Mistake? By David Corn / Mother Jones
How voter suppression laws hurt White people. By John Blake / CNN
The World Lost a Great Philosopher This Week. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
When a White-majority neighborhood wants to divorce its Black city. By Brandon Tensley / CNN
Asian American lawmakers urge DOJ to give updates about hate crimes law. By Cynthia Silva / NBC News
Pennsylvania school district reverses ban on books by authors of color after students fought back. By Mirna Alsharif and Liam Reilly / CNN
Republicans prove they never really wanted police reform. They’re on the wrong side of history. By Eugene Robinson / Wash Post
UN Durban meeting on race skipped by US, UK and others. By Caitlin Hu / CNN
Rep. Karen Bass plans to announce run for mayor of Los Angeles. By Sean Sullivan and Tyler Pager / Wash Post
These families of missing Black people are frustrated with the lack of response to their cases. By Nicquel Terry Ellis / CNN
Blackness and Latinidad are not mutually exclusive. Here’s what it means to be Afro-Latino in America. By Amir Vera and Alexander Pineda / CNN
What slavery reparations from the federal government could look like. By P. R. Lockhart / NBC News
Louisiana state trooper charged in pummeling of Black man. By Jake Bleiberg and Jim Mustian / AP and Wash Post
In 1865, thousands of Black South Carolinians signed a 54-foot-long freedom petition. By Michael E. Ruane / Wash Post
Civil rights lessons from 1961 influence 2021. The fight is not over. By Nicole Carroll / USA Today
The Betrayal of Historically Black Colleges. By Katherine Mangan / The Chronicle of Higher Education
