Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
1968 Olympian Dr. John Carlos on the Legacy of the Black Athletic Revolt. By Dave Zirin / The Nation Podcast
Satchel Paige’s MLB debut 75 years ago changed baseball forever. By Justice B. Hill / Andscape
The rich history of baseball’s Negro Leagues arrives in theaters. By Scott Allen / Wash Post
Ken Griffey Jr’s Swingman Classic is shouting out the good news of HBCU baseball. By William C. Rhoden / Andscape
Nike confirms Deion Sanders relationship renewed after split years ago. By Brent Schrotenboer / USA Today
What Was Clarence Thomas Thinking? The Most Baffling Argument a Supreme Court Justice Has Ever Made. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured GOP state attorneys general shift affirmative action battle lines to the workplace. By Wyatte Grantham-Phillips and Geoff Mulvhill / PBS
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 13) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Supreme Court didn’t end affirmative action for white people. By Fabiola Cineas / Vox
The Supreme Court Made It Even Harder to Close the Racial Wealth Gap. By Hannah Levintova / Mother Jones
Supreme Court backtracked on Black death row inmates’ racial bias claims, liberal justices say. By Lawrence Hurley / NBC News
Medical schools will be even less diverse after affirmative action ruling, experts say. By Char Adams / NBC News
Asian American low-income, community college students feel unheard in affirmative action debate. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
HBCUs With More Black Students Than All 8 Ivy League Schools Combined. By Shaun Harper / Forbes
The evidence mounts: Hispanic voters are drifting toward the GOP. By Ruy Teixeira / Wash Post
‘Unabashed’: Justice Jackson marks her first year on the Supreme Court unafraid to stake her own position. By Lawrence Hurley / NBC News
Federal Judge Blocks Florida GOP Attack On Voter Registration Groups. By Liza Hearon / HuffPost
His friends believed he could have been the next MLK. A bullet took his life. By Suzette Hackney / USA Today
Judge awards Black church $1 million after BLM banner burned by Proud Boys during protest. By AP and RNS
UCC elects first woman — and first woman of African descent — to lead denomination. By Emily McFarlan Miller / RNS
How my Catholic faith and Mohawk heritage teach me to embrace sustainable living. By Shauna’h Fuegen / NCR
As a Rabbi, I’ve Had a Privileged View of the Human Condition. By David Wolpe / NYT
Frederick Douglass Knew What False Patriotism Was. By Esau McCaulley / NYT
The Paragraph On Slavery That Never Made It Into The Declaration Of Independence. By Ben Railton / TPM
How an enslaved genius saved the Capitol dome’s ‘Freedom’ statue. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
Florida Black History and the Horrors of Slavery Not Taught in Schools. By Jess Nelson / Miami New Times
Black-owned banks, born out of post-slavery economic barriers, seek to address racial wealth gap. By Osej Serratos, Morgan Norwood, and Allie Weintraub / ABC News
