Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
The “Faces” of Black Conservatism Tell Us Everything—About the GOP. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
Race Inquiry Digest (Jan 5) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured America Loves to Celebrate ‘Firsts’ Like Hakeem Jeffries. It Doesn’t Always Make It Easy for Them to Lead. By Janell Ross / Yahoo News…
Black voters, long taken for granted, are being prioritized. By Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill
Our right to vote is under assault in Florida — and so is our democracy. By Shvrin Jones / Miami Herald
Clarence and Ginni Thomas Are The New Republic’s 2022 Scoundrels of the Year. By Michael Tomasky / The New Republic
Kamala Harris had a most excellent year. By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post
Jennifer McClellan set to make history in Congress for Virginia. By Zoe Richards / NBC News
Black Mayor Goes to War With Top Cop in Former ‘Klantown U.S.A.’ By Eileen Grench / Yahoo News
Life Expectancy Proves How Far Black Americans Have Come. By Andre M. Perry / Time
Emmett Till And His Mother Posthumously Awarded Congressional Gold Medal. By Shruti Rajkumar / HuffPost
Salmon People: A Native Fishing Family’s Fight to Preserve a Way of Life. By Katie Campbell, and Tony Schick / Propublica
Guide to Kwanzaa 2022: What it is and how to celebrate. By Kaleb A. Brown / USA Today
The wise men who helped me understand Christmas. By E.J. Dionne Jr. / Wash Post
The Americanization of Religion. By Ross Douthat / NYT
US churches are setting the tone for reparations movement. Kelly Powers and Sammy Gibbons / USA Today
West Point to Remove Confederate Monuments From Its Campus. By Amanda Holpuch / NYT
Teaching America’s racist history is first step to addressing inequity. By Jill Lawrence / USA Today
Does the Meaning of a Song Change Depending on Who Wrote It? By Esau McCaulley / NYT
Black Music Sunday: Christmas a capella and more! By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
The Best Black Christmas Movies of the Last 20 Years. By Jumoke Balogun and Mitu Yilma / New York Magazine
Families reconnect with Black Civil War ancestors with new project. By Genesis Malone / Courier Journal
The ‘Avatar’ sequel is getting heat from some Indigenous people. By Harmeet Kaur / CNN
What the Whitney Houston biopic reveals. By Brandon Tensley / CNN
Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough – just look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fiction. By Jessica Pressman / The Conversation
The ‘Black Panther’ Sequel That Never Was. By Reggie Ugwu / NYT
Sloane Stephens Wants to Make Tennis More Equitable and Accessible for All. By Vanity Fair
