Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
The Republican Party Is the Anti-Democracy Party. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Federal Officials Charge Four Officers in Breonna Taylor Raid. By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs / NYT
Researchers Did a Deep Dive Into Efforts to Restrict Critical Race Theory. Here’s What They Found. By Sylvia Goodman / Chronicle of Higher Education
Experts Say Student Debt Forgiveness Will Help Black Women. By Derek Major / Black Enterprise
Racial Disparities in Monkeypox Outbreak Go Unmentioned in Press Call. By Margo Snipe / Capital B
In Harvard admissions case, will justices cherry-pick their history? By Ruth Marcus / Wash Post
Albert Woodfox, who spent nearly 44 years in solitary confinement, dies. By Shauneen Miranda / NPR
What’s God Got to Do With It? The Rise of Christian Nationalism in American Politics. By Jane Coaston / The Arguement Podcast
The Christian Right Fires A Warning Shot At Senate Republicans. By Sarah Posner / TPM
Black Catholic groups gather for first in-person joint meeting in two years. By Dan Stockman / Global Sisters Report
History Refocused. A new lens on America’s past. By Cassie Spodak, Channon Hodge and Margaret Dawson / CNN
Schools banned books about Black life. Black kids are reading anyway. By Tat Bellamy-Walker / NBC News
Ivy League university set to rebury skulls of Black people kept for centuries. By Ed Pilkington / The Guardian
Reproductive Justice and Black Women’s Activism. By Tiana U. Wilson / AAIHS
Unsolved murders and the mothers of Jackson, Mississippi. By Jim Axelrod and Andrew Bast / CBS News
Angelina Jolie’s daughter Zahara is headed to Spelman College. By Lisa Respers France / CNN
Brittney Griner sentenced to 9 years on drug charges in Russian court. By Charles Maynes, Bill Chappell and Rachel Treisman / NPR
Processing Deshaun Watson — past, present and future. By Martenzie Johnson / Andscape
Keyshawn Johnson Wants the N.F.L. to Remember Its ‘Forgotten Four.’ By Ken Belson / NYT
Jemele Hill opens up about leaving ESPN’s ‘conservative culture.’ By Cydney Henderson / USA Today
Tennis has become an outlet for Black people during the pandemic. By Andscape Staff / Andscape
Viktor Orbán laid out his dark worldview to the American right — and they loved it. By Zack Beauchamp / Vox
Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Learning and Healing in the Archive of Black Thought. By Edna Bonhomme / The Nation
Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 15) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured What Trump and Orbán want: It’s fascism — it’s not a metaphor or a joke. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured What if White people woke up with dark skin? Mohsin Hamid’s novel wonders. Review by Ron Charles / Wash Post