Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Biden made huge promises to HBCUs. Can he sell its students on compromise? By Eugene Daniels / Politico
Inequalities on the Digital Campus. By Alice Quach and Victor Tan Chen / Dissent
Mapping Black Antiquity. By Sarah Derbew / AAIHS
How an all-Black, female battalion helped boost the morale of troops in Europe in WWII. By Eleanor Watson / CBS News
Police use similar tactics from 1960s protests in 2020 demonstrations. By N’dea Yancey-Bragg / USA Today
Plessy, ‘separate but equal’ case namesake, recommended for pardon. By AP and NPR
Melanie Charles knows the impact Black women have had on jazz. By Shannon J. Effinger / Wash Post
Hip-hop’s love-hate relationship with education. By Nolan Jones / The Conversation
Passing Netflix movie: How the adaptation differs from Nella Larsen’s classic book. By Carla Kaplan / Slate
We all thought that he would be the one.’ By Michael Lee / Wash Post
Ahmaud Arbery’s old football team turned angst into love — and a perfect season. By Elliott C. McLaughlin / CNN
What Aaron Rodgers Should See: Covid Suffering in a Wisconsin E.R. By Kurt Streeter / NYT
Olympic gold medalist Sunisa Lee says she was pepper sprayed in racist attack. By Meryl Kornfield / Wash Post
Menace Enters the Republican Mainstream. By Lisa Lerer and Astead W. Herndon / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Nov 18-22) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured From ‘Fear of a Black Planet’ to ‘Fear of a Black Universe.’ By C. Brandon Ogbunu / The Undefeated
White supremacists declare war on democracy and walk away unscathed. By Carol Anderson / The Guardian
Can Stacey Abrams Save the Democrats—Again? By Steve Freiss / Newsweek
Ted Cruz Talks About Joe Rogan Being ‘President’ Of Texas If State Secedes From U.S. By Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost
Blue States, You’re the Problem. By Johnny Harris and Binyamin Appelbaum / NYT
Brittney Cooper’s Truth-Telling Is Too Much For The Cowardly Right-Wing Mob. By Lawrence Ross / HuffPost
Winsome Sears, a Black Republican, winning in Virginia doesn’t rule out race as a big factor. By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post
Conservative school board wins may deliver chilling effect on racial equity efforts. By Laura Meckler and Timothy Bella / Wash Post
Ben & Jerry: White people need to fight racism, police abuse. Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield / USA Today
Kamala Harris’s approval rating falls to 28%, a historic low for any modern vice president. By Jake Lahut / Yahoo News
‘It’s a disgrace’: Progressives take aim at Buffalo mayor’s DNC post. By David Siders and Holly Otterbein / Politico
North Carolina Appeals Courts May Find Discrimination Against Black Jurors for First Time. By Jacob Biba / The Intercept
