Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
The Problem With Obama’s Faith in White America – Tressie McMillan Cotton / The Atlantic
Arthur Ash took the burden of race and wore it as a cloak of dignity – Rhiannon Walker / The Undefeated
How fake news led Dylann Roof to murder nine people -Martenzie Johnson / The Undefeated
Have you heard the story about the Democratic National Committee hiring actors to disrupt Donald Trump’s rallies? What about President Barack Obama pulling $2.6 billion…
The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken by Wendell Pierce
2016 Christopher Award Winner From acclaimed actor and producer Wendell Pierce, an insightful and poignant portrait of family, New Orleans and the transforming power of…
A Wrenching Decision Where Black History and Floods Intertwine – Jess Bidgood / NYT
How Black Lives Matter Went Global – Susie Armitage / Buzz Feed
2016 was the year Black Lives Matter went truly global. The US-born movement has spread as far as Brazil, South Africa, and Australia, where activists…
How Democrats Must Fight the Confirmation of Jeff Sessions – Sherrilyn Ifill / New Republic
What Ben Carson Should Learn About Housing Segregation – Richard Rothstein / Bill Moyers and Company
Barack Obama Says He ‘Absolutely’ Faced Racism In Office – Haley Miller / CNN
What does it take to get a police officer punished for killing an unarmed black man? Eugene Robinson / Wash Post
Watch the video. Walter Scott, unarmed and slow of foot, tries to run away. Police officer Michael Slager calmly fires five rounds into Scott’s back….
John Legend: An Open Letter to Barack Obama on Non-Violent Drug Offenders / Rolling Stone
A strong economic message can overcome white identity politics – Ian Reifowitz / Daily Kos
Political Divide on Campuses Hardens After Trump’s Victory – Anemona Hartocollis / NYT
The Struggle and Triumph of America’s First Black Doctors -Karen Jordan / The Atlantic
African American physicians have dealt with distrust and misperceptions for more than a century. Around 1906, a young boy in Atlanta was stricken with a…
‘Hidden Figures’: The Movie Trump’s America Needs to See – Kevin Fallon / The Daily Beast
A spotlight on the three black women who did the math that put Americans in space, Hidden Figures tackles race, equity, opportunity, and acceptance in eerily…
White Nationalist Rhetoric : Real or Imaginary – Tim Wise / Alternet
So now we know: White nationalists have been working more on their wardrobes than on tightening up the rhetoric and logic they use to defend…
The Link Between Race and Solitary Confinement – Juleyka Lantigua-Williams / The Atlantic
Trevor Noah Still Doesn’t Get It – Tomi Obaro / Buzz Feed
American democracy can die and ignorance will slay it – Brando Simeo Starkey / The Undefeated
Think back to the 2008 or 2012 presidential campaigns. Now pretend we discovered President Barack Obama’s voters of color had been endlessly sharing obviously apocryphal…
Lessons From Down-Under : Living With Racism in Australia – Alice Pung / NYT
MELBOURNE, Australia — My father survived the killing fields of Cambodia, where he was threatened with having his tongue cut out with a sickle for…
Reflections : We Are Donald Trump – Khalil Gibran Muhammad / The Nation
Watch Them Whip: A Decade of Viral Dance Moves / The New Yorker
Dancers from around the country perform the most popular dance moves, from the Dougie to the Quan. Watch the video here
Following Decades of Assimilation in America : Are Jews White? Emma Green / The Atlantic
Here’s how socialists shoved racist groups back into their hateful hole in the 1990s – Travis Gettys / Raw Story
The Scourge of Racial Bias in New York State’s Prisons – Michael Schwirtz, Michale Winerip and Robert Gebeloff / NYT
“Justice Delayed is Justice Denied,” Walter Scott Case Proves – Adam Hamze / Huff Post
