Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
A Holistic View of Vaccine Hesitancy. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Why Black-owned businesses are struggling to stay afloat. By Dymond Green / CNBC
Alabama university removes Wallace name from building. By AP and ABC News.
How Enslaved People Found A Pathway to Self-discovery. By Tyler Perry / AAIHS
Prince Hall, American Revolutionary. By Danielle Allen / The Atlantic
The Value of the Federal Writers’ Project Slave Narratives. By Clint Smith / The Atlantic
The complex history of Alexander Twilight, Middlebury’s first Black graduate. By Marina Affo / USA Today
The hidden story of when two Black college students were tarred and feathered. By Karen Sieber / The Conversation
Anna Deavere Smith on Forging Black Identity in 1968. By Anna Deavere Smith / The Atlantic
The Unfulfilled Promise of Julian Bond. By Gene Seymour / The New Republic
Why a shootout between Black Panthers and law enforcement 50 years ago matters today. By Paul Ringel / The Conversation
Fighting school segregation didn’t take place just in the South. By Ashley Farmer / The Conversation
The bright light shining on America’s best Black artists has a fascinating backstory. By By Sebastian Smee / Wash Post
Mary Wilson, a founding member of ‘The Supremes,’ has died. By Joe Sutton and Hollie Silverman / CNN
Curt Flood’s Fight Was About More Than Baseball. By Jemele Hill / The Atlantic
Kevin Garnett Isn’t Sure His Generation Could Play in Today’s N.B.A. By David Marchese / NYT
Only Venus Williams gets to decide when she leaves. By AP and USA Today
Why Super Bowl LV should be the Kansas City Chiefs’ last with that name — and might well be. By Simon Moya-Smith / NBC News
Our democracy faced a near-death experience. Here’s how to revive it. By Stacey Abrams / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (Feb 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Way Out of America’s Zero-Sum Thinking on Race and Wealth. By Heather C. McGee / NYT
Trump Trial Also A Referendum On Authoritarianism In America. By S.V. Date / HuffPost
Republicans advance more than 100 bills that would restrict voting in wake of Trump’s defeat. By Jane O. Timm / NBC News
How Democrats Found Thousands Of New Voters And Flipped Georgia’s Senate Seats. By Emma Hurt / NPR
How Biden could help narrow the racial wealth gap with just one appointment. By Helaine Olen / Wash Post
It will take more than the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act to fix our broken system. By John Rappaport and Ben Grunwald / Wash Post
In Biden administration reversal, Justice Dept. drops discrimination suit against Yale. By Pete Williams / NBC News
