Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Home Front: Black Women Unionists in the Confederacy. By Matthew Wills / JSTOR
Decades after suspected arson, a historic Black church in Pennsylvania reopens as a Black history museum. By Kaitlyn Schwanemann / CNN
5 MLK speeches you should know besides ‘I Have a Dream.’ By Scott Neuman / NPR
Joy Reid’s ‘Medgar and Myrlie’ traces extraordinary lives and love of civil rights leaders. By Geoff Bennett and Karina Cuevas / PBS
Jay-Z’s Grammys speech and Beyonce’s snubs call out a deeper problem. By Li Zhou / Vox
From rebel to retail − inside Bob Marley’s posthumous musical and merchandising empire. By Mike Alleyne / The Conversation
Netflix’s Big New War Movie Is Doing Something The Genre Almost Always Overlooks. By Kate Bove / Screen Rant
George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and the fraught notion of America’s melting pot. By Ryan Raul Bañagale / The Conversation
How Usher’s Enduring Charm Led Him to 2024 Halftime Show. By Cady Lang / Time
Las Vegas Raiders president Sandra Douglass Morgan continues to pioneer at the Super Bowl. By Jason Reid / Andscape
Doc Rivers to coach in All-Star Game, a move he calls ‘ridiculously bad.’ By Cindy Boren / Wash Post
Morehouse Brings On Terance Mathis As Football Head Coach. By Cedric Thornton / Black Enterprise
A Forgotten Championship H.B.C.U. Team Comes Off the Sidelines. By Remy Tumin / NYT
The Perfectionist Tradition. By William P. Jones / Dissent Magazine
Race Inquiry Digest (Feb 12) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Black civil rights organizations are rallying to counter anti-DEI rhetoric. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Biden leads Trump in 2024 matchup, sees boost from female voters. By Sudiksha Kochi / USA Today Image by WSJ
Kamala Harris Bolsters Biden for 2024 and Lays Groundwork for 2028. By Reid J. Epstein and Maya King / NYT
For the First Time, Black Women Are Leading Democrats in Early Primary States. By Candice Norwood and Grace Panetta / Capital B
Barbara Lee’s Antiwar Campaign for the Senate. By Emily Witt / The New Yorker
They Didn’t Plan to Be at the Center of a Civil Rights Battle. Then the Fearless Fund Was Sued. By Janell Ross / Time
Filing from DA in Trump case admits ‘personal relationship’ with prosecutor but denies wrongdoing. By Olivia Rubin / ABC News / Image by CTV News
Nikki Haley Tells ‘The Breakfast Club’ Obama Caused Racial Division And Dylan Roof Murders Weren’t Racist. By Zack Linly / Newsone / Image by MSN
The anti-DEI movement is going frighteningly well in red states. By Zeeshan Aleem / MSNBC / Image by DMN
It Will Take Black Americans 320 Years to Catch Up to White Neighbors. By Kelsey Butler / Bloomberg
The Most Overlooked Reason Black Americans Are Moving South. By Adam Mahoney / NYT
Violence interrupters bring hope to cities struggling with gun crimes. ByByron Pitts, Kyle Rollins, Ashley Schwartz-Lavares, Marjorie McAfee, and Aria Young / ABC News
