Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Two High-Powered Black Attorneys Confront a Justice System’s Flaws. By David Lat / NYT
Minneapolis’ 1st Black police chief leaves quietly. By AP and NBC News
Jay-Z’s Team Roc puts pressure on DOJ to investigate Kansas City, Kansas, police. By Erik Ortiz / NBC News
Why Are Minority-Owned Banks Disappearing? Washington Holds the Smoking Gun, By Gene Ludwig / Politico
Why It’s Scary to Be Jewish in America Today. By Deborah E. Lipsstadt / NYT
How Do We Confront White Christian Nationalism? By Rev Dr. Liz Theoharris / The Nation
Young Black Catholics confront nature, racism and the church’s way forward. By Brian Roewe / NCR
What Howard Thurman can teach Catholics about responding to racism today . By David E. DeCosse / NCR
What 13th-century Christian theologian Thomas Aquinas can teach us about hope in times of despair. Christopher Beem / The Conversation
More enslaved Africans came to the Americas through this port than anywhere else. Why have so few heard of it? By Terrence McCoy / Wash Post
America’s Ugliest Confederate Statue Is Gone. Racism Isn’t. By Margaret Renkl / NYT
On Route 66, a family is restoring the only gas station built for Black travelers. By Kristi Eaton / Fast Company
New Jersey requires K-12 schools to teach Asian American history. Mary Chao / USA Today
Highways, High-Rises And Food Deserts. By E. James West / AAIHS
Celebrated Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee dies at 102. AP and NPR
‘A Lot of People Knew:’ Watch the Official Trailer for W. Kamau Bell’s Bill Cosby Docuseries. By Tomas Mier / Rolling Stone
‘Abbott Elementary’ gets an ‘A’ in its first season. By David Dennis Jr. / The Undefeated
André Leon Talley Has Died At 73. By Emilia Petrarca / New York Mag
Bullerengue Legend Petrona Martinez Continues To Inspire. By Julyssa Lopez / Rolling Stone
‘I never thought about giving up or quitting’: Oscar Robertson on MLK’s legacy. By Martenzie Johnson / The Undefeated
Lusia Harris, the only woman officially drafted by NBA, dies at 66. By Rachel Treisman / NPR
Willie O’Ree’s hockey jersey is retired, 64 years after he broke color barrier. By Bill Chappell / NPR
Eric Dickerson Brings the Smoke By Dave Zirin / The Nation
Jamaica to compete in 4-man bobsled at Olympics for 1st time in over 20 years. By Scott Stump / NBC News
Why Can’t We Turn Away From the N.F.L.? By Kurt Streeter / NYT
Failure on Voting Rights Would Be Historic. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
