Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
For Black college athletes, this is the bus boycott of our era. By Derrick Johnson / CNN
Players from first all-Black All-American women’s basketball team reflect on making history in 1984. By Branson Wright / Andscape
Tennis phenom Coco Gauff strives for a medal and a second Grand Slam title while giving back to her community. By Sam Brock and Carmen Gonzalez / NBC News
Elon Musk Is Preoccupied With Something He Doesn’t Understand. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Mar 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured History of The Crisis Magazine: “A Record of the Darker Races.” By the NAACP
Radicalized by the right: Elon Musk puts his conspiratorial thinking on display for the world to see. By Oliver Darcy / CNN
Presidential Historian: Trump Actually Doing ‘Us All A Favor’ With Fascist Rhetoric. By Lee Moran / HuffPost
Why Fani Willis was allowed to stay on as prosecutor of criminal case against Trump in Georgia – and what happens next. By Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. / The Conversation
America’s Largest Minority Is Also Its Most Misunderstood. By Marie Arana / NYT
The Crumbleys Have Been Convicted. Black Parents Will Likely Pay a Price, Too. By Nia T. Evans / Mother Jones
Rankin County, Mississippi: ‘Goon Squad’ leader and another deputy sentenced for torture of two Black men. Four other ex-officers still face sentencing. By Emma Tucker, Ryan Young, Jade Gordon and Shawn Nottingham / CNN
Walter Massey, a Physicist With a Higher Calling. By Katrina Miller / NYT
Secretary Austin: ‘The US will not let Ukraine fail.’ By Laura Kayli / Politico
What Schumer and Biden Got Right About Netanyahu. By Thomas L. Friedman / NYT
Are Immigrants the Secret to America’s Economic Success? By Paul Krugman / NYT
The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers. By Adam Gopnik / The New Yorker
Poll: Most Americans say religion’s influence is waning, and half think that’s bad. By Jack Jenkins / RNS
Decoding Project 2025’s Christian Nationalist language. By Andra Watkins / Salon
The Exvangelicals Searching for Political Change. By Sarah Jones / The New Republic
The Dichotomy of Enslaved Women’s Work in the Antebellum South. By O.G. McClinton, III / AAIHS
How Virginia Used Segregation Law to Erase Native Americans. By Ashley R. Craig and Gregory D. Smithers / Time
The Buffalo Soldier Who Ordered An Artillery Barrage On His Own Position To Save His Comrades. By Samantha Franco / War History
Black twin sisters buy Woodland Plantation, site of the largest US uprising of enslaved people. By Lottie L. Joiner / HuffPost
On the Chisholm Trail: Dramatizing the Story of the First Black Woman Presidential Candidate. By Ed Rampell / The Progressive
Stormy Daniels doc is a portrait of a woman destroyed by Donald Trump. By Jada Yuan / Wash Post
How Quinta Brunson Hacked the Sitcom. By Molly Fischer / The New Yorker
