Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
The Racial Politics of the N.B.A. Have Always Been Ugly. By Jay Caspian King / The New Yorker
Willis Reed, Hall of Fame Center for Champion Knicks, Dies at 80. By Harvey Araton / NYT
Magic Johnson joins Josh Harris’s bid to purchase Commanders. By Nicki Jhabvala, Mark Maske and Liz Clarke / Wash Post
Deion Sanders’ take on why he left Jackson State football for Colorado. J.T. Keith / Mississippi Clarion Ledger
Dusty Baker, World Series champion: On life, baseball and all the love he’s received. By jayson Stark / The Atheletic
Corporate America Is No Longer Pretending to Care About Diversity. By Elie Mystal / The Nation – Illustration CNN
The new Red Scare for red states: Diversity programs. By Bianca Qilantan / Politico
How a far-right think tank made everything “woke.” By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Palm Beach Atlantic professor fired after racial justice lessons. By Andrew Marra / USA Today
A Federalist Society for all things: Dark money enters the culture wars. By Lucian K. Truscott IV / Salon
The New Mayor of Los Angeles. By Emily Witt / The New Yorker
Why are so many Americans poor? Because we allow it, two books argue. By Timothy Noah / Wash Post
Racial Justice Leaders Are Calling For An End To Deadly Traffic Stops. By Phillip Jackson / HuffPost
Black veterans were more often denied VA benefits for PTSD than white counterparts, newly surfaced study shows. By Laura Strickler / NBC News
California might resurrect a modern Freedman’s Bureau for reparations. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
A Florida town, once settled by former slaves, now fights over “sacred land.” By Martha Teichner / CBS News
Audubon faces a backlash over keeping a name that evokes a racist enslaver. By Bill Chappell / NPR
This new play details historic Tampa lunch counter sit-ins. By Maggie Duffy / Tampa Bay Times
Why Historically Black Fisk University Needs An Art Museum Now. By Marybeth Gasman / Forbes
Meet the Black musician behind Elvis’ biggest songs, who had to give up his writing credits and never met The King in person. By Brianna Holt / Insider
Black Music Sunday: These Black divas sang a classical storm of opera. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Lance Reddick, star of ‘The Wire’ and ‘John Wick,’ dead at 60. By Carson Blackwelder, and Stephen Iervolino / GMA
Jaylen Brown on Basketball, Activism and Being Black in Boston. By Sopan Deb / NYT
Michael Jordan in talks to sell majority stake in Hornets, sources say. By Adrian Wojnarowski / ESPN
Being a Black women’s basketball player in the Ivy League. By Sean Hurd / Andscape
Ibram X. Kendi says a backlash has ‘crushed’ the nation’s racial reckoning. But there’s one reason he remains hopeful. By John Blake / CNN
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 30) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured How Can We Be a Country That Does This to Our Children? By Esau McCaulley / NYT