Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
She Took On Atlanta’s Gangs. Now She May Be Coming for Trump. By Mark Binelli / NYT
The city left behind in Mississippi’s welfare scandal. By Matenzie Johnson / Andscape
Native Americans have experienced a dramatic decline in life expectancy during the COVID-19 pandemic – but the drop has been in the making for generations. By Allison Kelliher / The Conversation
Study: Racial disparities can affect brain development in Black children. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
Ida B. Wells Society relocates from UNC-Chapel Hill to Morehouse College. By Joe Killian / The Pulse
Biden tells dueling prayer breakfasts that ‘diversity is one of our greatest strengths.’ By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News
A brief history of the Black church’s diversity, and its vital role in American political history. By Jason Oliver Evans / The Conversation
Professor digs into history of Mercy sister’s boarding school for Native children. By Joyce Meyer / Global Sisters Report
Seeing Color Matters in Black History. By Terence Lester / Christianity Today
Slavery in Appalachia: The untold stories of Black Appalachian history. By Janay Reece / Wdbj7
The Rosa Parks of D.C. By David A. Taylore / Wash Post
The painful, cutting and brilliant letters Black people wrote to their former enslavers. By Gillian Brodkwell / Wash Post
Civil rights legislation sparked powerful backlash that’s still shaping American politics. By Julian Maxwell Hayter / The Conversation
How We Construct and Reconstruct Race. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Poetry finally has its own Grammy category – mostly thanks to J. Ivy, nominee. By Mandalit Del Barco / NPR
For Black women, hair is tied up with culture, identity and much more. By Alesia I. Redding / South Bend Tribune
Fisk University’s Inspiring Women’s Gymnastics Team Will Be The Focus Of A New Docuseries. By Jazmin Tolliver / HuffPost
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Was the ‘Best Weapon in Basketball.’ By Tania Ganguli and Scott Cacciola / NYT
The modern NFL didn’t have a Black head coach until 1989. Here’s his story. By Frederic J. Frommer / Wash Post
The Meaning of African American Studies. By Keeanga-Yamahtta-Taylor / The New Yorker
Race Inquiry Digest (Feb 9) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Believe It: A DeSantis Presidency Could Be Even Worse Than Trump. By Bryan Tannehill / The New Republic
Cops Lynched Tyre Nichols Because They Knew They Could. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
Tyre Nichols’ funeral in Memphis brings calls for justice. By Joe Hernandez / NPR
While Ron DeSantis Is Fighting Culture Wars, Millions Of Floridians Are Losing Their Health Care. By Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost
How to Be a (YOUNG) Antiracist — Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone
The Urgency of Police Reform Is at the Mercy of a Divided Congress. By Grace Segers / The New Republic
