Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
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
Radha Blank relearns how to live in color in ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version.’ By Soraya Nadia McDonald / The Undefeated
Born with two strikes. How systemic racism shaped Floyd’s life and hobbled his ambition. By Toluse Olorunnipa and Griff Witte / Wash Post
Memories of Homecoming at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. By Charanna Alexander / NYT
Featured – The German model for America. By Mattie Kahn / Vox
Answers and accountability are desperately needed in the Breonna Taylor case. By Editorial Board / Wash Post
Kamala Harris’s Vice-Presidency Keeps Getting Bigger. By Gabriel Debnedetti / NY Mag
Michelle Obama releases closing campaign message: Vote for Biden ‘like your lives depend on it. By Sarah Mucha and Jeff Zeleny / CNN
Warnock moves from pulpit to top rungs in crowded Senate race. By Ernie Suggs / AJC
Why Trump’s Myth of American Exceptionalism Is So Dangerous. By Rann Miller / The Progressive
White supremacists remain deadliest US terror threat, Homeland Security report says. By Geneva Sands / CNN
In Florida, the Gutting of a Landmark Law Leaves Few Felons Likely to Vote. By Lawrence Mower and Langston Taylor / Propublica
Mellon Foundation to Spend $250 Million to Reimagine Monuments. By Jennifer Schuessler / NYT
Armed with $1 million, John King launches new group to address systemic racism in Maryland. By Erin Cox / Wash Post
D.C. slaveholders once won reparations. Now, the city eyes payment for descendants of enslaved people. By Michael Brice-Saddler and Fenit Nirappil / Wash Post
The Nobility of Mobility: A Road Trip Through Racism. By Ed Rampell / The Progressive
Who Is ‘Latinx’ For? By Huff Post Video
19 Black families buy 97 acres of Georgia land to create ‘Freedom.’ By N’dea Yancey- Bragg / USA Today
Why a Hospital Might Shun a Black Patient. By Amol S. Navathe and Harald Schmidt / NYT
Hotter Days Widen Racial Gap in U.S. Schools, Data Shows. By Christopher Flavelle / NYT
Ziggy Marley’s ‘More Family Time’ Is a Feelgood Party for All Ages. By Jon Dolan / Rolling Stone
Alicia Keys Gives Us All a Helping Hand on ‘Alicia.’ By Jon Dolan / Rolling Stone
Serena Williams talks body image, says she’s been ‘undervalued’ and ‘underpaid’ in tennis. By Rachel George / GMA
