Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Kevin Durant puts in historic performance as Brooklyn Nets beat Milwaukee Bucks. Ben Morse / CNN
Baseball Reference Adds Negro Leagues Statistics, Rewriting Its Record Book. By James Wagner / NYT
The Demand of Freedom. The United States’ first civil rights movement. By Kellie Carter Jackson / The Nation
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Why Juneteenth Matters. It was black Americans who delivered on Lincoln’s promise of “a new birth of freedom.” By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
The Myth of a Majority-Minority America. By Richard Alba, Morris Levy, and Dowell Myers / The Atlantic
The White Right to Bear Arms. A review of “The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America.” By Emilo Leanza / The Progressive
Attorney general announces actions to protect voting rights. By Clare Hymes and Grace Segers / CBS News
Family of Alton Sterling reaches $4.5 million settlement with Baton Rouge, years after police shooting. By Derek Hawkins / Wash Post
Pulitzer Board Recognizes Darnella Frazier For Recording George Floyd’s Murder. By Joe Hernandez / NPR
The USDA has discriminated against Black farmers for years. Can this legislation bring about change? By Ashlie D. Stevens / Salon
How Black pastors under 40 are trying to get their peers back into the pews. By Randi Richardson / NBC News
There’s a cure for the root cause of anti-Semitic attacks. By Michael Igel / CNN
Morgan Freeman, professor donate $1 million to police reform center. By AP and USA Today
Meet the astronauts of color before NASA’s Artemis team. By Kristen Rogers / CNN
My grandparents were stolen from their families as children. We must learn about this history. By Deb Haaland / Wash Post
Descendants of Robert E. Lee and enslaved people unite for change. By CBS News
Understanding the Horror of Slavery Is Impossible. But a Simple Cotton Sack Can Bring Us Closer. By Rebecca Onion / Slate
How Interracial Marriage Became Legal In The U.S. By NPR
How Rosenwald schools transformed African-American education in the South. By Erica Davies / CBS News
The Unwritten History of Black Performance. By Kelton Ellis / The Nation
Tenement Museum Makes Room for Black History. By Jennifer Schuessler / NYT
The Other Black Girl’ should be at the top of your summer reading list. By Naomi Jackson / Wash Post
How “Kim’s Convenience” went from a beacon of representation to a lesson in racist storytelling. By Kylie Cheung / Salon
Capitol Police Officer Will Throw First Pitch At A Nats Game. By Bill Chappell / NPR
As NBA honors players’ activism, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar urges more action: ‘We’ve got work to do.’ By Candace Buckner / Wash Post
Jim ‘Mudcat’ Grant, first Black pitcher to win 20 games in American League, dies at 85. By Wash Post
