Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Black Americans reconnect with roots in emotional trips to Ghana’s ‘Door of No Return. ‘By Candace Smith, Aude Soichet, Jessica Hopper, Ashley Riegle, and Marlene Lenthang / ABC News
Teaching Students A New Black History. By Anya Kamenetz / NPR
Golden Globes facing criticism for lack of diversity. By Joe Fryer / Today
‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ Movie Review: Streaming on Hulu. By K. Austin Collins / Rolling Stone
Curtis Mayfield and ‘we people who are darker than blue.’ By Denise Oliver Velez / DailyKos
Howard’s Larry Scott said no to Nick Saban and Alabama to try to rebuild football program. By Adam Rittenberg / The Undefeated
One hope for the next generation of Black athletes. By Kevin Carroll / The Undefeated
LeBron James found voice on social issues after Trayvon Martin’s death. By Jeff Zillgitt / USA Today
Tiger Woods and Another Terrible Turn of Fate. By Kurt Streeter / NYT
New Anti-Racism Project Hopes to Push Soccer Past Gestures. By Rory Smith / NYT
The Incalculable Debt That America Owes Black People. By Bruce Bartlett / The New Republic
Clarence Thomas promotes Donald Trump’s big lie about voter fraud. By Mark Joseph Stern / Slate
Evangelical Leaders Raise Alarms About Christian Nationalism In Their Ranks. By Sarah McCammon / NPR
500,000 Americans have died of Covid. Will we wake up to our own callousness? By Reverend William Barber / The Guardian
It Was Garland’s Hearing—but Women of Color Were on Trial. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
‘She became an easy target’: GOP opposition to Haaland rankles Native Americans. By Anthony Adragna and Ben Lefebvre / Politico
People Over 75 Are First in Line to Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19. The Average Black Person Here Doesn’t Live That Long. By Wendi C. Thomas and Hannah Grabenstein / ProPublica
Anti-Asian violence is surging. But we can’t answer bigotry with bigotry. By Andrew Wang / Wash Post
Lawsuit calls out alleged co-conspirators in Arbery murder. Chief among them: Georgia cops. By Lauren Floyd / Daily Kos
Why state legislatures are still very white — and very male. By Renuka Rayasam, Nolan D McCaskill, Beatrice Jin and Allan James Vestal / Politico
For Black Families, Evictions Are Still At A Crisis Point — Despite Moratorium. By Pam Fessler / NPR
Virginia Senate votes to make racism a public health crisis. What now? By Bill Atkinson / The Progress-Index
Latinos need to confront their own racism, say Afro-Latinos pushing for racial equity. By Nicole Acevedo / NBC News
What I learned when I recreated the famous ‘doll test’ that looked at how Black kids see race. By Toni Sturdivant / The Conversation
New York City and the Persistence of the Atlantic Slave Trade. By Gerald Horne / The Nation
She sued her enslaver for reparations and won. Her descendants never knew. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
