Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
He was a child refugee. Now he’s a bishop navigating Trump’s deportation push. By Michelle Boorstein / Wash Post
International Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade: ‘Time to abolish exploitation once and for all.’ By United Nations
How the Irish Liberator helped liberate America’s enslaved. By Christian E. O’Connell / Wash Post
An Unconstitutional “Jim Crow Jury” Sent Him to Prison for Life. A New Law Aims to Keep Him There. by Richard A. Webster / ProPublica
Trump Wants to Make Art Into a Tool of the State. By Barry Schwabsky / The Nation
2025 US Open a celebration of Althea Gibson. By Jerry Bembry / Andscape
A Kobe Bryant Movie Is In The Works About His Draft Day. By Bruce Goodwin II / Cassius
Letter From DC: Goodbye to John Wall, Hello to Celebrating His Rebel Spirit. By Dave Zirin / The Nation
Venus Williams’s comeback was about playing healthy again. Call it a win. By Ava Wallace / Wash Post
Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force. By Ezra Klein / NYT Podcast
Race Inquiry Digest (Sep 6) – The Week’s Top Stories
The Weekend Edition of Race Inquiry Digest features the top stories from the two previous Digests published during the week. Click here for earlier Digests.
The Mind-Boggling Intrusiveness of Donald J. Trump. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Cities led by Black women are the first targets of Trump’s political power grab. By Amanda Becker and Barbara Rodriguez / Salon
Trump’s redistricting push could bring decades of Republican rule to the US House. By David Morgan / Reuters
Lisa Cook, Who Broke Ground at the Fed, Faces Attack by Trump. By Ben Casselman / NYT
MSNBC Host Nicolle Wallace Fires Back at ‘Delusional’ Trump After Direct Attack. By Eboni Boykin-Patterson / The Daily Beast
Justice department backs lawsuit seeking to end grants for hispanic-serving colleges, calling them unconstitutional. By CBS News
Howard President Resigns Amid Housing Crisis and Student Outrage. by Alecia Taylor / Capital B
Education Dept. Finds Faculty-Diversity Efforts at George Mason U. Were Discriminatory. By Jasper Smith / The Chronicle of Higher Ed.
With Moves on West Bank and Gaza City, Israel Defies Global Outcry. By Lara Jakes / NYT
What It Would Actually Take to End the War in Ukraine. By Joshua Yaffa / The New Yorker
The Man Who Saw the Future of Africa. By Howard W. French / NYT
Christian Nationalism: A Civil Rights Fight In Our Time. By Ginny Baxter / Patheos
At conference, pastors address racism in their churches as momentum fades. By Fiona Andre / RNS
A Path To a Healthy Black Evangelicalism. By Bryan Loritts / Christianity Today
The Meaning of Trump’s Attack on the Smithsonian. By Clint Smith / The Atlantic
