Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Open Love Letter To Bethune-Cookman 2017 Graduates From Black Faculty / Cassius
The Case for Black English : John McWhorter celebrates the dialect that has become an American lingua franca – Vinson Cunningham / New Yorker
Guess Who Sessions’s War On Drugs Will Target – Earl Ofari Hutchinson / Huff Post
Protests against removing Confederate monuments are not really about history – Christine Emba / Wash Post
‘Mama’s Bail Out Day’ Brings Black Moms Home From Jail for Mother’s Day – Sherri Williams / NBC
NFL Still Shunning Colin Kaepernick Because of His Politics, Not His Play – Bleacher Report / Mike Freeman
American Race : Someone thought it was a great idea to give Charles Barkley a four-part doc on race – Aisha Harris / Slate
Trump’s voter fraud commission is a shameless white power grab – Stephen W. Thrasher / The Guardian
Race Inquiry Digest (May 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – A Call to Faith-Based Communities to Bring Dignity and Integrity to our Criminal Justice System. “Our faith calls us to liberate the least…
White Racism in America’s Police Departments Is So Much Worse Than Most Americans Understand – Jeff Pegues / Alternet
See Big Sean Tackle ‘Hate, Police Brutality’ in Stirring ‘Light’ Video – Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone
Survey: the poor white working class was, if anything, more likely than the rich to vote for Clinton – German Lopez / Vox
Donald Trump won because white people felt frightened – Graham Vyse / New Republic
Is This How Discrimination Ends? – Jessica Nordell / The Atlantic
Wisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won by 22,748) – Ari Berman / The Nation
Trump Administration Cites Segregation-Era Ruling To Defend Its Travel Ban – Julia Craven / Huff Post
In New Orleans, Racism’s History Is Harder Than Stone – Michael Tisserand / NYT
Asian-Americans Have Highest Poverty Rate In NYC, But Stereotypes Make The Issue Invisible – Kimberly Yam / Huff Post
A Call to Faith-Based Communities to Bring Dignity and Integrity to our Criminal Justice System – Jacqui Lewis / Bill Moyers
Race Inquiry Digest ( May 8 ) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Cruel Old Party. The Republican Party won control of government promising help. Help for the unemployed, help for the uninsured; help for the…
Book Excerpt : The Battle for the Soul of America Is Being Fought in the States – Rev. Dr. William J. Barber / Bill Moyers
Colgate’s Black Students ‘Angry, Sad, Confused’ In Aftermath of Racial Profiling Incident – Kiersten Willis / Atla Black Star
Whites Cheer Black Athletes and Loathe Them At the Same Time – We Ask Why? Gus T. Renegade / Atl Black Star
Jackson, Mississippi, Just Nominated Radical Activist Chokwe Antar Lumumba to Be the Next Mayor – John Nichols / The Nation
The Republican Party is sociopathic: If you didn’t know that already, the health care bill should make it clear – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Before Michelle, Barack Obama asked another woman to marry him. Then politics got in the way – Carlos Lozada / Wash Post
