Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
African Ancestry Inc.: Telling black folks where they’re from – Jason Reid / The Undefeated
‘Unflinching’: The day John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harpers Ferry – DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
It’s Time to Take Tiffany Haddish Seriously as an Oscar Contender – Ira Madison III / Daily Beast
Why the black press is more relevant than ever – David Love / CNN
As Confederate Statues Fall, What Should Replace Them? – Aviva Kemper / NYT
A Mixed-Race Royal Couple? It Wouldn’t Be the First – Monica Drake / NYT
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nihisi Coates
In these “urgently relevant essays,”* the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring…
The Republican tax bill is not just immoral. It is an act of violence – William Barber and Liz Theoharis / The Guardian
Race Inquiry Digest (November 30) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The gang rape was horrific. The NAACP sent Rosa Parks to investigate. Rosa Parks, left, in an undated photo. Decades after her rape,…
How the GOP Has Already Hijacked the Alabama Election – Steven Rosenfeld / AlteNet
How segregation leads to racist voting by whites – Ryan D. Enos / Vox
‘I’ve had family members that disowned me’: Inside the mind of the black conservative TV pundit – Sam Fulwood III / ThinkProgress
The French Origins of “You Will Not Replace Us” – Thomas Chatterton Williams / The New Yorker
What the New York Times’ Nazi Story Left Out – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
Supreme Court Rejects Case Over Confederate Emblem On Mississippi Flag – Merrit Kennedy / NPR
Racism Is Stopping Black Men From Solving Our Nursing Shortage – Adia Harvey Wingfield / Slate
White racism course causes controversy at Florida university – Thyrie Bland / USA Today
The gang rape was horrific. The NAACP sent Rosa Parks to investigate (“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”) – DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard
For sheer reading pleasure Ladee Hubbard’s original and wildly inventive novel is in a class by itself.” —Toni Morrison “The Talented Ribkins is a charming and…
Race Inquiry Digest (November 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – “That Was a Damn Lie :” The New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb on why we fell for Obama’s version of a united America. We discuss…
The tragedy of Trump’s latest Twitter tantrum – Colbert I. King / Wash Post
African Americans Are Disproportionately Arrested for Low-Level Marijuana Violations—and the Disparity Is Growing – Paul Armentano / AlterNet
Spike Lee: Why I Turned ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ Into a TV Series – Tim Grierson / Rolling Stone
The Nationalist’s Delusion – Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
A New National Museum and Memorial In Alabama Will Finally Look Back at Racial Terror In America – D. Amari Jackson / Atl Black Star
Hate in America is on the rise – Editorial Board / Wash Post
