Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
The MAGA GOP’s “New Model” for America is the Old South. By Thom Hartmann / The Hartmann Report
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 4) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured ‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’: The History of Frederick Douglass’ Searing Independence Day Oration. By Olivia B. Waxman / Time
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 1) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The Reckoning of Joe Biden. By David Remnick / The New Yorker
Biden takes lead over Trump in Fox News poll for the first time since October 2023. By Nicholas Liu / Salon
The Apprentice Is the Skeleton Key to Understanding Trump. By Will Leitch / New York Intelligencer
Bragg Has Been Deluged With Threats Since Trump’s Conviction. By Nia Prater / New York Intelligencer
Is This the End of the Clarence Thomas Court? By Matt Ford / The New Republic
The Israel Trip That Made Jamaal Bowman — And Could Cost Him His Reelection. By Calder McHugh / Politico
Liberalism Under Siege. Win McCormack / The New Republic
Backlash against DEI spreads to more states. By Erika Bolstad / Daily Kos
Is It Possible to Desegregate the Nation’s Biggest School System? By Troy Closson / NYT
NC A&T’s Chancellor-Elect Vows To Exceed Expectations. By Ashlei Stevens/ Black Enterprise
President Joe Biden: ‘All the bad guys’ globally are rooting for Donald Trump. By Brett Samuels / The Hill
“The Night Won’t End”: New Film Investigates Civilian Killings in Gaza and U.S. Backing of Israeli Assault. Democracy Now
As President Takes Oath, 4 Challenges for South Africa’s New Government. By John Eligon / NYT
Louisiana’s Ten Commandments Law Signals a Broader Christian Agenda. By Rick Rojas, David W. Chen and Elizabeth Dias / NYT
How Christian nationalism is going under the radar in this election. By Paul A. Djupe / RNS
Greg Abbott’s School Voucher Crusade Is Three Decades in the Making. by Jeremy Schwartz / ProPublica
These Badges Shed New Light on the Enslaved Workers Who Built Charleston. By Sarah Kuta / Smithsonian Magazine
The site of the first free Black town in the U.S. is being rebuilt near St. Augustine. By C. Isaiah Smalls II / Miami Herald
Three Evangelical ‘Founding Fathers’ and Their Complicated Relationships to Slavery. By Robert Caldwell III / CT
How 99 Black Americans Gained—Then Lost—Land On An Idyllic Georgia Island. By Ruth Murai / Mother Jones
Paying reparations for slavery is possible – based on a study of federal compensation to farmers, fishermen, coal miners, radiation victims and 70 other groups. By Linda J. Bilmes and Cornell William Brooks / The Conversation
Let’s Examine the Link Between MAGA and the Old South. By Thom Hartman / The New Republic
In 1964, the Klan killed three young activists and shocked the nation. By Susan Levine / Wash Post
Angela Bofill, R&B balladeer with a dreamy, dynamic voice, dies at 70. By Harrison Smith / Wash Post
