Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
How to defeat dog-whistle politics, win elections and build a progressive majority: Part 1. By Paul Rosenberg / Salon
Holder-affiliated group launches new challenge to partisan gerrymandering in North Carolina. By Amy Gardner / Wash Post
“Worth This Investment”: Memos Reveal the Scope and Racial Animus of GOP Gerrymandering Ambitions. By David Daley / The Intercept
White evangelicals love Trump and aren’t confused about why. No one should be. By Anthea Butler / NBC News
‘OK’ is now a hate symbol, the ADL says. By Sara Sidner / CNN
Gov. Hogan: $200 million is ‘final offer’ to resolve HBCU lawsuit. By Talia Richman / The Baltimore Sun
Ta-Nehisi Coates on His Debut Novel “The Water Dancer,” Slavery & Reparations. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
During the Jewish High Holidays, there’s a growing awareness that not all U.S. Jews are white. By Michelle Boorstein / Wash Post
How Harvard admissions can be a barometer of our deepest divides. By Jennifer Lee and Van C. Tran / CNN
‘Hustlers’ And The Evolution Of Asian Sex Workers On-Screen. By Tiffany Diane Ts / HuffPost
Eddie Murphy Is Bringing Eddie Murphy Back. By Jason Zinoman / NYT
Overlooked No More: Robert Johnson, Bluesman Whose Life Was a Riddle. By Reggie Ugwu / NYT
Elaine Massacre: Federal troops escorting African Americans to the schoolhouse in Elaine, Ark; October 1919. By Christina Maxouris / CNN
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 3) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Historian Warns Today’s America Looks ‘Eerily Similar’ to Period Before the Civil War, Compares Movement Conservatives to Slaveholder Elite. By Shane Croucher /…
GOP racial gerrymandering mastermind participated in redistricting in more states than previously known, files reveal. By David Daley / The Intercept
Mississippi: African American voters sue over election law rooted in the state’s racist past. By Gideon Cohn-Postar / The Conversation
Chokwe Antar Lumumba: Being a Radical Means Getting to the Root Causes of Injustice. By John Nichols / The Nation
Clean, affordable drinking water is a racial issue. By Anna Clark / Wash Post
Watch White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation’s Divide. By Carol Anderson / YouTube
The arrest of a black six-year-old girl exposes the rotten heart of US policing. By Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian
Poll finds support for school busing to reduce segregation, but only among Democrats. By Llaura Meckler and Scott Clement / Wash Post
American Jews and American Muslims Have a Common Antagonist. By James Ron and Howard Lavine / NYT
43 Percent of White Students Harvard Admits Are Legacies, Jocks, or the Kids of Donors and Faculty. By Jordan Weissmann / Slate
All college students should take a mandatory course on black history and white privilege. By Emily Walton / USA Today
Hostile Environment For Black Workers Probed In Virginia Beach Shooting Investigation. By Sarah McCammon / NPR
Jacqueline Woodson Transformed Children’s Literature. Now She’s Writing for Herself. By Kat Chow / NYT
