Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
D’Vontaye Mitchell, who died after being pinned to the ground in Milwaukee, died from asphyxia and drugs, autopsy report says. By Raja Razek and Emma Tucker / CNN
USDA issues payments to address discrimination against Black farmers. By Ximena Bustillo / NPR
How Could Maduro’s Reign in Venezuela End? By Jack Nicas / NYT
Key Black Muslim group backs Kamala Harris for president over Gaza stance. By Erum Salam / The Guardian
Illegal border crossings hit Biden-era low. By Sergio Martínez-Beltrán / NPR
Indian and Black, Hindu and Baptist: The multiplicities of Kamala Harris. By Richa Karmarkar / RNS
Black Christian Leaders Find Hope with Kamala Harris. By Harvest Prude Christianity Today
The Christian Case Against Trump. By Eliza Griswold / NYT (Image Rolling Stone)
New book chronicles the formerly enslaved man crucial to creating Jack Daniel’s. By Geogg Bennett, Stephanie Kotuby and Alexa Gold / PBS
White woman who wrongfully accused ‘Groveland Four’ of rape in Jim Crow-era South dies at 92. By Devon M. Sayers, Sara Weisfeldt and Emma Tucker. / CNN
How a Supreme Court decision kept school segregation alive. By Michelle Adams / Wash Post
Reflections on James Baldwin 100 years after his birth. By Wallter Ray Watson / NPR
White House chef, first woman and person of color in role, retires after nearly 30 years. By AP and NBC News
St. Lucia gets its first gold medal, thanks to the world’s fastest woman. By Ben Shpigel Talya Minsberg Chang W. Lee Gabriela Bhaskar and Daniel Berehula / NYT
Black Women in Sports You Should Be Watching. By Noah A McGee / The Root
Dream Team dreaming: How great can this U.S. men’s basketball team still be? By Joe Vardon / The Athletic
What Trump’s Kamala Harris Smear Reveals. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest (Aug 8) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Why Tim Walz Will Be a Potent Weapon for Kamala Harris. By Ross Barkan / NYT (Image ABC)
Kamala Harris is the worst nightmare of America’s far right. By Robert Reich / The Guardian (Image The Hill)
Who is Kamala Harris’ acclaimed academic father, Donald J. Harris? By Bethamy Gemmell / WGTC
Trump and Vance seem ready to offend as many women voters as possible. By Jennifer Ruben / Wash Post
Trump Questions Harris’s Racial Identity, Saying She Only ‘Became Black’ Recently. By Jonathan Weisman, Maya King and Zolan Kanno-Youngs / NYT
Biden Unveils Plan For Supreme Court Changes, Including Term Limits. By Aamer Madhani / HuffPost
Opponents of DEI want to stifle America’s progress. We can’t let that happen. By Stacey Abrams and Margaret Huang / USA Today
Income gap between Black and white US residents shrank between Gen Xers and millennials, study says. By AP and The Grio
Belle Wheelan to retire as head of Southern accreditor. By Doug Lederman / Inside Higher Ed.
