Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Biden becomes first president to mark day.
‘We’re talking about a big, powerful phenomenon’: Multiracial Americans drive change. By Silvia Foster-Frau, Ted Mellnik, and Adrian Blanco / Wash Post
Fisk’s Jubilee Singers celebrate 150 years of American tradition. By Esohe Osabuohien / NBC News
Philadelphia poet Sonia Sanchez wins Gish Prize. by Erin McCarthy / The Philadelphia Inquirer
Dave Chappelle refuses to evolve. By Justin Tinsley / The Undefeated
Tears of relief show how far Fury was pushed by Wilder in fight for the ages. By Donald McRae / The Guardian
Full Circle Everest hopes to be the 1st all-Black team to climb Everest. By Sharon Pruitt-Young / NPR
The School That Aspires to Be a Basketball Factory (Not That Kind). By David Waldstein / NYT
John Coltrane’s ‘A Love Supreme’ Lives On. By David A. Graham / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured White America’s “hidden wound” threatens to destroy the country — and not for the first time. Kirk Swearingen / Salon
Senate Confirms Top Prosecutors for Manhattan and Brooklyn. By Matt Stieb / New York Magazine
How Latinos are growing and reshaping the United States. By Suzanne Gamboa and Nicole Acevedo / NBC News
Study confirms pandemic hit Black Americans, Native Americans and Latinos harder than Whites. By Maggie Fox / CNN
Federal judge rejects comparisons between Capitol insurrection and racial justice unrest. By Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN
“Becoming Abolitionists”: Derecka Purnell on Why Police Reform Is Not Enough to Protect Black Lives. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
California Governor Signs Law To Improve Outcomes For Black Birthing People And Babies. By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost
After years of inequity, it’s time to support historically black colleges. By Javaid Siddiqi / The Hill
George Floyd may be granted posthumous pardon in 2004 drug arrest. Juan A. Lozano / USA Today
Jury orders Tesla to pay more than $130 million in discrimination suit, which alleged racist epithets and hostile work environment. By Faiz Siddiqui / Wash Post
Henrietta Lacks Estate Sues Company Using Her ‘Stolen’ Cells. By Michael Kunzelman / HuffPost
The brutal trade in enslaved people within the US has been largely whitewashed out of history. By Joshua D. Rothman / The Conversation
Did the Constitution Pave the Way to Emancipation? By Richard Kreitner / The Nation
Alabama spends more than a half-million dollars a year on a Confederate memorial. Black historical sites struggle to keep their doors open. By Emmanuel Felton / Wash Post
How did white students respond to school integration after Brown v. Board of Education? By Charise Cheney / The Conversation
Black Student Activism and Durham’s Campus Movement. By Brandon K. Winford / AAIHS
Jubilee: Can HBCU Publications Revamp Education? By Rochelle Spencer and DeLisa Harris / AAIHS
