Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
It’s Time for America to Reinvest in Public Housing. By Ross Barkan / NYT
We Are the ‘Exonerated 5.’ What Happened to Us Isn’t Past, It’s Present. By Yusef Salaam, Kevin Richardson and Raymond Santana / NYT
2021’s call to Reconstruction. By E. J. Dionne Jr. / Wash Post
Vernon Jordan: Make It Plain. By PBS
Rooting out racism in children’s books. Lindsey Perez Huber / The Conversation
Take Beautiful Pictures of Our People.’ By Siddhartha Mitter / NYT
Bruce Maxwell: Baseball star took a knee and then his life unraveled in Trump’s America. By Don Riddell / CNN
NFL head coach: Will teams do more than talk about hiring minorities? By Nancy Armour / USA Today
Alabama Wide Receiver DeVonta Smith Wins the Heisman Trophy. By Alan Blinder / NYT
The Negro Leagues Museum, after a year of loss, counts its ‘merger’ with MLB as a win. By Michael Lee / Wash Post
In Georgia, Pro Teams Dive Into Senate Races With Different Playbooks. By Ken Belson / NYT
Raphael Warnock’s Win Is One for the History Books. By Astead W. Herndon / NYT
Georgia enters final days of pivotal Senate races. By Judy Woodruff / PBS Podcast
The Southern state where Black voters are gaining in numbers, but not power. By Renuka Rayasam / Politico
2020: The Year Black Voters Said, ‘Hold Up.’ By Teresa Wiltz / Politico
Are we allowed to whisper about the transition to President Harris? By Douglas MacKinnon / The Hill
After Five Centuries, a Native American With Real Power. By Timothy Egan / NYT
How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men. By Akilah Johnson and Nina Martin / ProPublica
What’s not being said about why African Americans need to take the COVID-19 vaccine. By Debra Furr-Holden / The Conversation
Beyond crisis funding: Black-led organizations that saw a surge in donations look for lasting impact. By Julianne McShane / NBC News
How a courageous Southern governor broke ranks with segregationists in 1961. By John Drescher / Wash Post
New Native American memorial offers peace in the heart of one of the city’s few wild spaces. By Philip Kennicott / Wash Post
1st Chinese American lawyer gets Columbia Law honor, highlights past barriers. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
Don’t ‘better explain’ the Emancipation Memorial. Put up monuments to Black people instead. By Karen Attiah / Wash Post
Paying tribute to the queen of the jazz organ: Shirley Scott. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Floyd Little, Syracuse and Broncos great, dies at 78. By Arnie Stapleton / ABC News
