Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
It’s time to end the LeBron James-Michael Jordan debate. By William C. Rhoden / The Undefeated
Joe Morgan loved baseball but also challenged its outdated practices. By Claire Smith / The Undefeated
Featured – COVID deaths reveal how racism still has its grip on America. By USA Today Staff
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – With days left, Black voters face orchestrated efforts to discourage voting. By April Glaser / NBC News
How Black people maintain hope — and why that’s so important. By Erin Aubry Kaplan / LA Times
Samuel L. Jackson Hits Donald Trump, GOP With ‘Vote, Dammit, Vote’ Video. By Lee Moran / HuffPost
Kamala Harris Made It Look Easy. It Wasn’t. By Joan Walsh / The Nation
Jaime Harrison sets Senate fundraising record with $57 million haul in South Carolina. By Max Greenwood / The Hill
Biden’s Test In Michigan: Winning Over Black And Brown Voters Disillusioned In 2016. By Asma Khalid / NPR
The plot against Whitmer won’t be the last white supremacist threat. By Kathleen Belew / Wash Post
Greensboro Massacre: City Apologizes 41 Years After Cops Allowed Klan, Nazis to Kill 5 Antiracists. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
How Asian Americans are fighting bias and racism in 2020. By Alvin Patrick / CBS News
What We Can Learn From the Rise and Fall of ‘Political Blackness.’ By Kwame Anthony Appiah / NYT
‘Disconnected from reality’: Latinos hit hard by Covid slam Trump’s remarks. By Nicole Acevedo / NBC News
California Ushers In A Bold New Era Of Board Diversity. By Michael Peregrine / Forbes
Trump and McConnell’s mostly white male judges buck 30-year trend of increasing diversity on the courts. By Rorie Solberg / The Conversation
Princeton building once named for Woodrow Wilson to be named after Black alum Mellody Hobson. By Stephen Smith / CBS News
Mapping A Plan For Reparations In The Twenty-First Century. By Ashley Dennis / AAIHS
Why Black Parishioners Are Leaving Churches. By Dara T. Mathis / The Atlantic
Why Black women face disproportionate rates of breast cancer. By Maura Hohman / NBC News
Redlining was outlawed in 1968. Here’s how the practice is still hurting Black Americans. By CBS News
Silicon Valley is famously liberal. Then, investors and employees started clashing over race. By Nitasha Tiku / Wash Post
The United States vs. Billie Holiday. By Lawwrence Wu / NPR
Listen Up: These Young Black Poets Have a Message. By Maya Phillips / NYT
Families of Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King Jr. condemn Trump for using images of civil rights icons in ad. By Christopher Brito / CBS News
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The history, the lyrics and the impact. By Faith Karimi and AJ Willingham / CNN
