Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
The Zora Neale Hurston We Don’t Talk About By Lauren Michele Jackson / The New Yorker
When Eartha Kitt Disrupted the Ladies Who Lunch. Film by Scott Calonico, Text by Lauren Elyse Garcia / The New Yorker
50 Years After Recording “No Knock,” Gil Scott-Heron’s Protest Song Contains a Prescription. By Daniel King / Mother Jones
Review: In ‘Black No More,’ Race Is Skin Deep, but Racism Isn’t. By Jesse Green / NYT
Snoop Dogg is converting Death Row Records into the first NFT music label. By Chris Morris / Fortune
How The Natural Hair Movement Has Failed Black Women. By Esther Akutekha / HuffPost
Blaxploitation classics like ‘Shaft’ radiate Black Power 50 years on. By Marco della Cava and Rasha Ali / USA Today
NFL owners need a jolt to make fairer decisions in hiring Black coaches and executives. By William C Rhoden / The Undefeated
Aaron Donald, the Super Bowl’s true MVP, finally gets his ring. By Sally Jenkins / Wash Post
Was the Super Bowl Halftime Show a “Missed Opportunity”? By Dave Zirin / The Nation
Snowboarding was his passion. Making the sport more inclusive became his mission. By Dustin Jones / NPR
Utah Jazz Scholarship program makes every win a little more significant. By Marc J. Spears / The Undefeated
Travis Hunter commits to JSU: Are more Black athletes choosing HBCUs? By Cydney Henderson / USA Today
How Black families, torn apart during slavery, worked to find one another again. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
No, America is not on the verge of another civil war. But that doesn’t mean it can’t learn from its last one. By Henry Olsen / Wash Post
The US supreme court is letting racist discrimination run wild in the election system. By Carol Anderson / The Guardian
In a flawed system, a Black prosecutor wonders if she’s pursuing justice or being complicit. By Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. / Wash Post
Teaching Black history is not an attack on White Americans. By William J. Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove / CNN
Affirmative Action and America’s ‘Cosmetically Diverse’ College Campuses. By The Arguement / NYT Podcast
Amid nationwide enrollment drops, some HBCUs are growing. So are threats. By Lauren Lumpkin, Nick Anderson and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel / Wash Post
Basic income champion Michael Tubbs launches nonprofit to end poverty. By Alejandro Lazo / Recordnet
New doc explores the disparities that fuel Black maternal mortality. By Bianca Brutus / NBC News
Calif. sues Tesla over alleged rampant discrimination against Black employees. By Deepa Shivram / NPR
The growing movement to save Black cemeteries. By Char Adams / NBC News
Black FedEx Driver Says He Was Chased, Shot At By 2 White Men In Mississippi. By Ryan Grenoble / HuffPost
Christian nationalism drove Jan. 6: Now it’s embraced the Big Lie, and wants to conquer America. By Kathryn Joyce / Salon
