Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Baseball’s first plan for Negro League stars: A separate Hall of Fame wing. By Frederic J. Frommer / Wash Post
Bomani Jones Calls an Audible. By Jason Zinoman / NYT
DeMeco Ryans may be the NFL’s next Black coach. Should he want to be? By Kent Babb / Wash Post
On MLK Day, Malcolm Brogdon has a personal civil rights leader to look up to. By Marc J. Spears / Andscape
Florida Gov. DeSantis leads the GOP’s national charge against public education that includes lessons on race and sexual orientation. By Jonathan Feingold / The Conversation
What America’s Thinking- How Black Voters Cast Their Ballots In the 2022 Midterms: Analysis. By Rafael Bernal and Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill
For Black voters, great expectations of America’s lone Black governor. By Ovetta Wiggins ,Erin Cox and Lateshia Beachum / Wash Post
What is Hillsdale College? Florida Gov. DeSantis wants to replicate it. By Nirvi Shah / USA Today
A Georgia Republican Brags That Voter Suppression Helped Them in 2022. By Joan Walsh / The Nation
Supreme Court justices are showing their willingness to boost conservative causes. By Joan Biskupic / CNN
Jackson, Mississippi’s water crisis persists as national attention and help fade away. By Char Adams / NBC News
San Francisco Reparations Committee Recommends One-Time $5M Payment to Longtime Black Residents, An Apology for ‘Decades of Harm.’ By Niko Mann / Atlanta Black Star
Catholics must be ‘active participants’ in MLK’s ‘unfinished’ work, Cardinal Gregory says. By Richard Szczepanowski / NCR
A Revelatory Tour of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Forgotten Teachings. By Ezra Klein / NYT Podcast
Religion 102: Secular Humanism. By Ojibwa / Daily Kos
How a Sunken Slave Ship Set Off “a Search for Ourselves.” By Sam Jones / Mother Jones
James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and the Ever-Deferred Dream. By Amy Kittelstrom / AAIHS
New biography details important social experiment in Springfield. By G. Michale Dobbs / The Reminder
The Evolution of Quinta Brunson. By Amira Castilla / The Root
What makes that song swing? At last, physicists unravel a jazz mystery. By Maria Godoy / NPR
I Saw Horrific Things When I Played in the NFL. By Nate Jackson / The Atlantic
Warriors return to White House, meet with Biden after passing on Trump. By Glynn A. Hill / Wash Post
M.L.B. Works to Build a New Generation of Black American Players. By David Waldstein / NYT
Black interim coaches face a steep climb. Will Carolina elevate Steve Wilks? By Michael Lee / Wash Post
Howard University men’s basketball team tackles maternal health. By Justin Gamble / CNN
By Dismantling Racist Myths, The 1619 Project Becomes Intensely Patriotic TV. By Stephen Robinson / Primetimer
Race Inquiry Digest (Jan 26) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Florida is offering an advanced lesson in anti-Blackness. By Karen Attiah / Wash Post