Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Why Evangelicals Couldn’t Care Less About Trump’s Epstein Scandal. By Rob Schenck / Mother Jones
How Much Do These Pastors Gross Preaching The Gospel? By Ahsan Washington / Black Enterprise
Trump Against History. By The New Republic
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Broken Promise of ‘Brown v. Board of Ed.,’ Sixty Years Later. By Katrina Vanden Heuvel / The Nation
Black Moses’ tells a powerful story of political ambition. By Aram Goudsouzian / Wash Post
Beyoncé Is Now Halfway To EGOT Status After This Major Win. By AP and HuffPost
Baldwin: A Love Story. By Nicholas Boggs / Amazon Books
Frances Tiafoe opens up on life in ‘white sport’ tennis. By Ella Kipling / Daily Express
Ben Shelton will break American men’s tennis Grand Slam drought. By Dan Wolken / USA Today
Naomi Osaka releases statement after criticism over what she did following Canadian Open final defeat. By Ryan Smart / Sportbible
What Federal Control of D.C. Police Could Mean for Overpolicing in Black Communities. By Christina Carrega / Capital B
Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was.’ By Zolan Kanno-Youngs / NYT
Let Voters, Not Politicians, Decide Elections. By Jeffrey A. Mandell / The Progressive Magazine
Justice Dept. Subpoenas Office of Letitia James, Who Sued Trump for Fraud. By Jonah E. Bromwich, Devlin Barrett, Glenn Thrush and Santul Nerkar / NYT
Kamala Harris will not run for California governor, opening door for 2028 run. By Maeve Reston / Wash Post
Black unemployment rate jumps, stirring economic fears. By Bailey Schulz / USA Today
The Diversity Bell That Trump Can’t Un-ring. By Geraldo Cadava / TNR
The heir’s property: reclaiming family land lost in the Deep South. By Andrea Riquier / USA Today
‘I just couldn’t stop crying’: How prison affects Black men’s mental health long after they’ve been released. By Helena Addison / The Conversation
Trump Is Desperately Trying To Make Colleges White Again. By Nathalie Baptiste / HuffPost
Trump Escalates a Fight Over How to Measure Merit in American Education. By Stephanie Saul, Dana Goldstein and Sarah Mervosh / NYT
The Only Hope Is Total and Unrelenting Resistance. By Arne Duncan / The Chronicle of Higher Ed.
This ‘Chilling’ Right-Wing Movement Is Taking Over Classrooms — And It’s Only The Beginning. By Molly Wadzeck / HuffPost
Zelensky rejects Trump’s suggestion that Ukraine cede territory to Russia. By Siobhán O’Grady and Catherine Belton / Wash Post
Mouin Rabbani on Israel’s “Indefinite, Genocidal Military Campaign.” By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Haiti has new council leader as gangs threaten to overthrow government. By AP and NPR
Disturbed About Man. By Benjamin E. Mays / Amazon Books
Black Churches Can Apply For Grant To Preserve African American Heritage. By Mitti Hicks / Black Enterprise
Hegseth promotes interview with avowed Christian nationalist. By Garrett Owen / Salon
History Matters Now More Than Ever. By Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney, Jr / AAIHS
