Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Civil rights are under assault in Florida, coalition of activists say. By Deborah Barfield Berry / USA Today
A debate brews among Black Ivy League students over representation on campus. By Uwa Ede-Osifo / NBC News
Former Memphis officer pleads guilty in Tyre Nichols death. By AP and NPR
FBI search home of Eric Adams’ fundraiser, consultant. By Savannah Kuchar / USA Today
Mike Johnson’s reading of Scripture misses what it really means to be a Christian nation. By Liz Theoharis / RNS
Antisemitism on the rise? Three charts on religious-based hate. By Jacob Turcotte and Harry Bruinius / CS Monitor
More Black Women Land Leadership Roles At Divinity Schools—and Beyond. By Stacy Jackson / Black Enterprise
Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away. By Mike Lofgren / Salon
Sojourner Truth Was a ‘Double Woman’ in More Ways than One. By Obbie Tyler Todd
The Legal History of Travel Discrimination. By Rebecca Dudley / AAIHS
Long before Elon Musk, Henry Ford went to war with Jewish groups. By Shera Avi-Yonah / Wash Post
Filipinos who fought for the U.S. in WWII never saw benefits. A new bill seeks to change that. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
Leroy Stover, Birmingham’s first Black police officer, dies at 90. By AP and ABC News
‘City of a Million Dreams’ documents Black jazz funeral tradition of New Orleans. By Nate Tinner-Williams / NCR
Louis Armstrong Gets the Last Word on Louis Armstrong. By Ethan Iverson / The Nation
George C. Wolfe Would Not Be Dismissed. By Vinson Cunningham / The New Yorker
New Orleans Pelicans guard CJ McCollum asks how to help Black youths in the city. By Marc J. Spears / Andscape
NFL coaching diversity ‘plagued’ by offensive coordinator position. Tom Schad / USA Today
Nathan Martin will race in the New York City Marathon. Black runners are amped. By Michelle Garcia / NBC News
What the 2024 Election Is Really About for Trump Supporters. By Jonathan D. Karl / The Atlantic
Will courts ban Trump? Why Colorado case may keep him off 2024 ballot. Laurence H. Tribe and Dennis Aftergut / USA Today
MAGA Mike Johnson Once Warned About Dangers of Living Under Democracy. By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / The New Republic
Biden hits another milestone for Black female judicial nominees. By Garren Keith Gaynor / The Grio
Tim Scott’s Racial Absolution. By Robert Samuels / The New Yorker
What It Takes for a Democrat to Be Competitive in the Deep Red South. By Tim Miller / The Bulwark
White Americans have far more wealth than Black Americans. Here’s how big the gap is. By Tami Luhby / CNN
