Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Donald Trump is smothering the religious right. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Black Religious Fostering of American Civic Ideals. By R. Drew Smith / AAIHS
A great historian unlocks the key to antisemitism. By Paul Johnson / RNS
Slavery’s Indelible Stain on a White Abolitionist Legend. By Michael Jeffries / NYT
John Hope Franklin and WWII as a Crisis of Democracy. By Thomas Cryer / AAIHS
What A. Philip Randolph Knew About Jobs and Freedom. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
How to Divide the Working Class. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
The five Black governors who came before Maryland’s Wes Moore. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
The Controversy Over Boston’s ‘Embrace’ Memorial to MLK. By Diana Budds / New York Magazine.
Black Music Sunday: Celebrating Sam Cooke’s legacy on his birthday. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
How Earth, Wind and fire Became Symbols of Black Emancipation. By William Kennedy / Grunge
Arthur Duncan, Barrier-Breaking Tap Dancer, Is Dead at 97. By Richard Sandomir / NYT
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
