Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Trump’s pre-debate bluster is a bluff. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
I Know What America’s Leading C.E.O.s Really Think of Donald Trump. By Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld / NYT
Why Jamaal Bowman Lost. By Russell Berman / The Atlantic
Tracking Higher Ed’s Dismantling of DEI. By Erin Gretzinger and Maggie Hicks / Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Alabama man denied office after winning election reaches proposed settlement to become town’s first Black mayor. By Justin Gamble / CNN
Black Americans targeted with disinformation as election nears, new report finds. By Marquise Francis / NBC News
Bernie Sanders report details right-wing billionaires’ plot to ‘sabotage’ public education. By Jake Johnson / Raw Story
Kidneys from Black donors are more likely to be thrown away − a bioethicist explains why. By Ana S. Iltis / The Conversation
Gaza Famine Warning Spurs Calls to Remove Restrictions on Food Shipments. News Updates / NYT
U.N.-approved, Kenya-led security force finally arrives in Haiti. By Widlore Mérancourt and Amanda Coletta / Wash Post
Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law isn’t about American legal history. By Mark Silk / RNS
Why the swing state faith voters who really matter in 2024 aren’t evangelicals. By Bob Smietana and Jack Jenkins / RNS
Hair like wool. By Malissa Burlock / The Christian Century
Civil religion as a gateway to Christian nationalism. By Beau Underwood and Brian Kaylor / RNS
Once Upon A Time, Enslaved Africans Were An Insurance Commodity. By Stacey Patton / Black Enterprise
How the GI Bill widened the Black-white wealth gap. By Ebony Reed / Los Angeles Times
These Researchers Study the Legacy of the Segregation Academies They Grew Up Around. By Jennifer Berry Hawes / ProPublica
Documentary ‘The Debutantes’ shines a light on cotillions as a celebration of Black Girlhood. By Isabel Yip / NBC News
How Trump Went from Hip Hop’s Favorite Wealth Icon to the Culture’s Supervillain. By Cali Green / The Root
The Father-Son Drama of LeBron and Bronny James. By Louisa Thomas / The New Yorker
How Willie Mays Handled Being a Black Superstar in a Racist Era. By Aram Goudsouzian / Time
A UFC takeover: Donald Trump’s dreams of a migrant fighting league are no joke. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
An influx of money will change the WNBA. Players and teams are prepared. By Kareem Copeland / Wash Post
The MAGA GOP’s “New Model” for America is the Old South. By Thom Hartmann / The Hartmann Report
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 4) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured ‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’: The History of Frederick Douglass’ Searing Independence Day Oration. By Olivia B. Waxman / Time
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 1) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Reckoning of Joe Biden. By David Remnick / The New Yorker
Biden takes lead over Trump in Fox News poll for the first time since October 2023. By Nicholas Liu / Salon
The Apprentice Is the Skeleton Key to Understanding Trump. By Will Leitch / New York Intelligencer
Bragg Has Been Deluged With Threats Since Trump’s Conviction. By Nia Prater / New York Intelligencer
Is This the End of the Clarence Thomas Court? By Matt Ford / The New Republic
