Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
From Plains to the Presidency, Jimmy Carter Remembered at National Funeral. By Harvest Prude / Christianity Today
Race Inquiry Digest – The Week’s Top Stories (Jan 18)
The Weekend edition of Race Inquiry Digest features the top stories from the two previous Digests published during the week. Stories are curated from mainstream…
Race Inquiry Digest (Jan 16) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Are We Sleepwalking Into Autocracy? By Kim Lane Scheppele and Norman Eisen / NYT
Billionaires court Trump at Mar-a-Lago, his “center of the universe.” By Daria Solovieva / Salon
Why Trump’s Inauguration Falling on MLK Day is Painfully Ironic. By Allison Wiltz / Level
Louisiana: Racism Doesn’t Exist Anymore, So Let Us Racially Gerrymander. By Kate Riga / TPM
Race on Campus: Can colleges attract Latino students with colorblind strategies? By Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez / Chronicle of Higher Ed
Years after Floyd’s death, Minneapolis and DOJ agree to police changes. By David Nakamura / Wash Post
Elon Musk goes global with his playbook for political influence. By Cat Zakrzewski / Wash Post
The Voice of South Africa’s First Post-Apartheid Generation. By Lynsey Chutel / NYT
Massacre Upon Massacre: Haiti’s Bleak Spiral Into a Failed State. By David C. Adams and Frances Robles / NYT
These Black Celebs Are Now Ghanaian Citizens As African Nation’s ‘Year Of The Return’ Program Expands. By Nahlah Abdur-Rahman / Black Enterprise
Cardinal McElroy to face challenges in Trump’s Washington. By Brian Fraga / NCR
What People Get Wrong About Christian Women Who Voted for Trump. By Nina Martin / Mother Jones
Why Mike Johnson’s fake “Jefferson prayer” matters. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Not all insurrections are equal – for enslaved Americans, it was the only option. By Deion Scott Hawkins / The Conversation
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days. By Timothy W. Ryback / The Atlantic
History’s Lessons on Anti-Immigrant Extremism. By Michael Luo / The New Yorker
Inside The Quest To Save America’s Oldest Incorporated Black Town Of Brooklyn, Illinois. By Nahlah Abdur-Rahman / Black Enterprise
Where to start with: Zora Neale Hurston. By Colin Grant / The Guardian
The History of The Isley Brothers. By Angela Johnson / The Root
Steph Curry and the NBA’s most confounding paradox. By Tim Keown / ESPN
Black coaching pioneer Tyrone Willingham wants success for Penn State’s James Franklin, Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman. By William C. Rhoden / Andscape
Lamar Jackson isn’t just this season’s NFL MVP. He’s the MVP of an idea. By William C. Rhoden / Andscape
Coco Gauff earns statement win over Iga Świątek to lead the US to United Cup title. By Matias Grez / CNN
McDonald’s Is The Latest Company To Roll Back Diversity Goals. By Dee-ann Durbin / HuffPost
