Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Why the Bronx Burned. By Mrill Ingram / The Progressive
Kansas City voters choose to remove Martin Luther King Jr.’s name from a historic street. By David Williams / CNN
42 Texas Lawmakers Join Forces To Urge Governor to Halt Rodney Reed’s Execution. By Carla Herreria / HuffPost
Debt Is Holding Black Americans Hostage. By Edna Bonhomme / The Nation
Flint’s Children Suffer in Class After Years of Drinking the Lead-Poisoned Water. By Erica L. Green / NYT
Whitney Houston confidante Robyn Crawford confirms their queer relationship. By Trish Bendix / NBC News
Saeed Jones on “How We Fight For Our Lives” and writing with “skin in the game.” By D. Watkins / Salon
How Kim Kardashian West Came to Represent America. By Lauren Michele Jackson / Slate
Tiger Woods’ First Public Golf Course Is Awesome. By Larry Olmsted / Forbes
The ‘Lost Cause’ That Built Jim Crow. Southern “Redeemers” snuffed out the first black power movement. By Henry Louis Gates / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Nov 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Brown is the New Black. In Trump’s America, African-Americans and Latinos have a new kind of solidarity. By Erin Aubry Kaplan / NYT
Can White Graduates of Racist Schools Unlearn Hate? By David Beard / Mother Jones
White Supremacist Plotted to Bomb Colorado Synagogue, F.B.I. Says. By Julie Turkewitz / NYT
Survey: Trump’s immigration rhetoric is negatively impacting Latinos’ health. By Reuters / NBC News
Today’s great divide is not between left and right. It’s between democracy and oligarchy. By Robert Reich / Salon
Cornel West on hope and resistance in the age of Trump: We must “find joy in the struggle.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
How Kamala Harris Went From ‘Female Obama’ to Fifth Place. By Christopher Cadelago / Politico
Novelist Ernest J. Gaines Dies At Age 86. By Richard Gonzales / NPR
What W. E. B. Du Bois Conveyed in His Captivating Infographics. By Hua Hsu / The New Yorker
Popeyes Sandwich Strikes a Chord for African-Americans. By John Eligon / NYT
Harvard Law School traces its origins to an Antiguan slave owner. Now the country wants reparations. By Meagan Flynn / Wash Post
‘Lynch him!’ A century after a white mob hanged a black man from a tree, soil from the site is being preserved. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
HBO’s ‘The Apollo’ Chronicles the Theater’s Struggles and Triumphs. By Dan Reilly / Fortune
“Watchmen” creator and star: This is America’s history, not just black or white history. By Melanie McFarland / Salon
What critics are missing about Prince’s raw, rule-breaking memoir. By Clay Cane / CNN
Rap legend Rakim opens up about finding his unique, intellectual sound and transforming hip-hop. By D. Watkins / Salon
