Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
2020 Finalists For The Pauli Murray Book Prize In Black Intellectual History. By AAIHS Editors
Black and Hispanic students pay more for college loans, study finds. By Gwen Aviles / NBC News
‘The Photograph’ Review: An Unabashedly Old-School Love Story. By Manohla Dargis / NYT
Early Novel Written By Free Black Woman Called Out Racism Among Abolitionists. By Jack Rodolico / NPR
There Have Been 10 Black Senators Since Emancipation. By Eric Foner / NYT
Mary Ellen Pleasant, one of the first black self-made millionaires, used an ingenious trick to build her fortune. By Tom Huddleston Jr. / CNBC
Where Did The Love Go? In Today’s Black Pop Music, Love Songs Are Harder To Find. By Jesse Washington / The Undefeated
President Barack Obama’s All-Star Fireside Chat With Giannis, Chris Paul And Kevin Love. By The Undefeated
The Bloomberg Temptation. By Ross Douthat / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Feb 20) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – After Fighting Nazis, Black G.I.s Faced Racism in U.S. Military. By Alexis Clark / NYT
White Supremacist Propaganda Spreading, ADL Says. By AP / HuffPost
Alabama Lawmakers Want to Force One of America’s Blackest Cities to Celebrate White Supremacy. By Michael Harriot / The Root
I Can’t Believe Black People Might Actually Vote for Michael Bloomberg. By Michael Herriot / The Root
Martin Luther King Jr. On Making America Great Again. By Justin Rose / AAIHS
“Everywhere You Don’t Belong.” By Gabriel Bump / A Review by D. Watkins
Border officials destroy Native American burial grounds to build Trump’s wall: report. By Igor Derysh / Salon
This Primary’s Real Loser Is Diversity. By Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
Howard University’s Largest Donation Ever Raises Questions About Who Gets Donor Coins. By Jenny Gathright / NPR
Hoyer promises D.C. statehood vote on House floor ‘before the summer.’ By Jenna Portnoy / Wash Post
Why President Trump’s bid for the black vote is unlikely to bear fruit. By Charles Lane / Wash Post
Jesse Owens Vs. Hitler Wasn’t The Only Story At The 1936 Olympics. By Andrew Maraniss / The Undefeated
Malcolm X assassination case may be reopened after Netflix documentary. By Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News
‘Parasite’ Won, but Asian-Americans Are Still Losing. By Walter Chaw / NYT
Oscar-winning ‘Hair Love’ director calls attention to efforts to ban race-based hair discrimination. By Jena McGregor / Wash Post
Giannis Antetokounmpo Wants To Represent Best Of Both Worlds. By Marc J. Spears / The Undefeated
Baseball Makes An Early Pitch To Catch The Interest Of Black Players. By Exther Ciammachilli / NPR
