Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Meet the Scholar-Activist Who Changed Baptist Minds on Race. By Nathan Finn / Christianity Today
In latest ‘gOD-Talk’ discussion, Black millennials discuss hip-hop and faith. By Religion News Service
Reparations could heal America. By Vox Staff / Vox
White and Black: A Historian Traces African-American Influences in the United States. By Drew Gilpin Faust / NYT
World’s Richest Negro Girl’ inspired media ridicule, fascination, alarm. By Sudney Trent / Wash Post
How Black washerwomen in the South became pioneers of American labor. By Kim Kelly / Wash Post
Ken Burns Explores America’s Inaction During the Holocaust. By Joseph Berger / NYT
The First A.P. African American Studies Class Is Coming This Fall. By Anemona Hartocollis / NYT
Fight over future of library that sparked civil rights ideas. By Travis Loller / AP and ABC News
Barack Obama wins Emmy for narrating national parks series. By AP and ABC News
John Legend Bet on Himself. By Michael Schuylman / The New Yorker
Lewis Hamilton: The F1 Superstar on Controversies, Racism, and His Future. By Chris Heath / Vanity Fair
In Jackson, Miss., football goes on despite the water crisis. By Stephan Bisaha / NPR
Marcus Freeman is 36. He’s Also in Charge at Notre Dame. By Alan Blinder / NYT
Why LeBron James Is Worth $100 Million to the Lakers, Win or Lose. By Sopan Deb / NYT
Mississippi’s Dry Run for Eco-Apartheid. By Kate Aronoff / The New Republic
More than 40% of Americans think civil war likely within a decade | US politics. By Martin Pengelly / The Guardian
Biden to give prime-time speech about ‘soul of the nation’ as voters prepare to cast midterm ballots. By Mike Memoli / NBC News
Abrams, Georgia Dems call midterms ‘unfinished business.’ By Bill Barrow and Jeff Amy / AP and ABC News
Los Angeles Is Creating a Model for Fighting Mass Incarceration. By Mark Engler and Paul Engler / Dissent
How homebuyers of color are disproportionately impacted by rising mortgage rates. By Paul Solman / PBS Podcast
Mississippi’s largest city in water crisis as treatment plant fails. By Emmanuel Felton and Bryan Pietsch / Wash Post
In St. Louis, doulas push for better reproductive health care — especially for Black patients. By Gabrielle Hays / PBS
Black Historians, Race, and the Historical Profession. By Hettie Williams / AAIHS
Panel says West Point, Naval Academy should scrub Confederate names. By Julia Mueller / The Hill
Counties with more slaves in 1860 have higher gun ownership rates today, study finds. By Matthew Rozsa / Salon
