Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Is a Moment of Reckoning for American Jews – Jay Michaelson / Daily Beast
The Unreality of Racial Justice Cinema – Reggie Ugwu / NYT
How do colleges use affirmative action? Even some activists don’t understand – OiYan Poon / The Conversation
Elizabeth Warren’s New Housing Proposal Is Actually a Brilliant Plan to Close the Racial Wealth Gap – Mehrsa Baradaran and Darrick Hamilton / Slate
What white players owe their black teammates: Boston Celtics legend’s tears offer an answer – John Blake / CNN
A Black Senate Candidate Stumps in Mississippi, but His Party Holds Him Back – Nicholas Fandos / NYT
The Civil War massacre that left nearly 200 black soldiers ‘murdered’ – DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
72 hours in America: Three hate-filled crimes. Three hate-filled suspects – Ray Sanchez and Melissa Gray / CNN
Race Inquiry Digest (October 29) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – 72 hours in America: Three hate-filled crimes. Three hate-filled suspects.
Trump’s Midterms Strategy Is Fear, Lies, and (White) Nationalism – Joan Walsh / The Nation
America’s Relentless Suppression of Black Voters – Lawrence Goldstone / The New Republic
Booked: How to Pick an Electorate, with Carol Anderson – Marcia Chatelain / Dissent
Stacey Abrams and the Politics of Georgia’s Old State Flag – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Confederate pride and prejudice – Frances Stead Sellers / Wash Post
At trial, Harvard officials explain rejecting alternatives to using race in admissions – Josh Gerstein / Politico
Can these descendants of enslaved Africans save their unique culture – Pete Marovich / Wash Post
Le’Veon Bell’s agent knows the struggle – Jesse Washington / The Undefeated
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture – Margaret Talbot / The New Yorker
The Double Battle: Frederick Douglass’s moral crusade – Eric Foner / The Nation
Historian Christopher Browning on the Trump regime: We’re “close to the point of no return” – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Fear of a Black Continent – Ross Douthat / NYT
Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test raises fraught questions of Native American identity, tribes say – Erik Ortiz and Angel Torres / NBC News
Louisiana voters will have a chance to strike down a Jim Crow law this November – German Lopez / Vox
Voter-Suppression Tactics in the Age of Trump – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Analysis: Brian Kemp has purged over 300,000 voters from Georgia rolls – Shira Tarlo / Salon
Andrew Gillum, Florida’s possible next governor, has the winning message for Democrats – Simon Greer / Salon
