Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Why Juneteenth Should Matter to the Church. By Ed Gilbrith / Christian Science Webinar
Why White Evangelicals Should Claim John Brown. By Louis A. Decaro Jr. / Christianity Today
A sacrament of love: Black Catholic reflections on the life and legacy of bell hooks. By LaRyssa D. Herrington / NCR
How evangelical Christians are sizing up the 2024 GOP race for president. By Natalie Allison and Meridith McGraw / Politico
‘You wear out’: How chronic illness grounds and inspires William Barber’s activism. By Jack Jenkins / RNS
Debunking Historical Myths with My High School Students. By Katie Wills Evans / The Progressive
Boston Apologizes For Slavery In City’s Past. By Ben Bianchet / HuffPost
Black Genealogy After Alex Haley’s Roots. By Menika Dirkson / AAIHS
Freedom riders’ 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina. By Tom Foreman Jr / ABC News
Meet Opal Lee, the ‘grandmother of the movement’ to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. By Katie Kindelan /GMA
How Vincent Chin is being remembered, 40 years after his death. By Tat Bellamy-Walker / NBC News
Sen. Raphael Warnock on his new memoir ‘A Way Out of No Way’ and what gives him hope. By Mary Louise Kelly, Elena Burnett and Justine Kenin / NPR
Smithsonian unveils first Latino history exhibit, new gallery. By Patricia Guadalupe / NBC News
Fifty years later, Curt Flood’s sacrifice should still be celebrated. By William C. Rhoden / Anscape
‘After Jackie’ documentary honors the second wave of Black baseball players. By A. Martinez and Phil Harrell / NPR
Jeremy Lin launching basketball school to inspire Asian diaspora youth. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
NFL will argue for ‘significant’ suspension of Deshaun Watson. By Mark Maske / Wash Post
Juneteenth, as much as the Fourth of July, is America’s true birthday. By Peniel E. Joseph / CNN
Race Inquiry Digest (Jun 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The case against the Supreme Court of the United States. By Ian Millhiser / Vox
The Land of the Free Leads the World in Incarceration. Why? By Christina Carrega / Capital B
Hiding Buffalo’s History of Racism Behind a Cloak of Unity. By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor / The New Yorker
Herschel Walker Lied About Being a Cop and It Won’t Matter. By Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark
Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to join White House as top aide. By Mike Memoli and Zoë Richards / NBC News
In South Carolina, race and gender animate Democratic gubernatorial primary. By Stratton Lawrence / Wash Post
Study: Black elders die from air pollution three times more than whites. By Nada Hassanein / USA Today
A Black Army vet spent 16 months in solitary. Then a jury heard the evidence against him. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
