Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Johnny Grier, N.F.L.’s First Black Referee, Dies at 74. By Richard Sandomir / NYT
LeBron Fandom, and the Making of a Friendship in ‘King James. By Sarah Bahr / NYT
Putin and Trump have convinced me: I was wrong about the 21st century. By Robert Reich / The Guardian
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 17) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Polo Ralph Lauren Unveils HBCU Capsule Collection for Morehouse and Spelman Colleges. By Dan Heching / People
Supreme Court Rejects Legal Theory That Would Eviscerate Voting Rights – For Now. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
Know Your Enemy: A Second Civil War? With Jamelle Bouie. Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell / Dissent Podcast
Are Latino Voters Actually Fleeing the Democratic Party? By Steve Phillips / the Nation
Emmett Till Antilynching Act heads to Biden’s desk. By Kiara Alfonseca / ABC News
Demanding That Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘Show Her Papers.’ By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Supreme Court Won’t Review Decision Freeing Bill Cosby From Prison. By Maryclaire Dale / HuffPost
Is Texas Sending Melissa Lucio to Die for a Crime That Never Happened? By Liliana Segur and Jordan Smith / The Intercept
Home prices could soar another 20% this year, but Black families are struggling to benefit. By Nicole Bachaud / CNN
Can the Christian right quit Putin? By Molly Olmstead / Slate
New Netflix docuseries ‘jeen-yuhs’ chronicles Kanye West’s belief in God and himself. By Emily McFarlan Mille / NCR
Black History Month is over. Thank goodness. By Cole Arthur Riley / Wash Post
The African American Origins of Modern Asylum. By Sean Gallagher / AAIHS
He Joined the Attica Prison Uprising. He Hopes a New Documentary Can Set the Record Straight. By Eamon Whalen / Mother Jones
2022 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History. By AAIHS Editors
Panicked White People Tried To Ban Books In The ’80s, Too — With Jerry Falwell Leading The Way. By Fred L. Pincus / TPM
Samuel L. Jackson loves his job. CBS News
Fears grow Russia could use US basketball star Brittney Griner as ‘hostage.’ By Bryan Armen Graham / The Guardian
Tiger Woods to be honored with World Golf Hall of Fame induction. By Steve DiMeglio / USA Today
Russell Wilson to the Broncos — Making sense of the Seahawks’ trade, Denver’s Super Bowl hopes with its new QB and what’s next. Bill Barnwell / ESPN
Fighting back against CRT panic: Educators organize around the threat to academic freedom. By Kathryn Joyce / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Putin and Trump have convinced me: I was wrong about the 21st century. By Robert Reich / The Guardian