Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
White Nationalists Celebrate ‘an Awakening’ After Donald Trump’s Victory – Alan Rappeport and Noah Weiland / NYT
‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Is A Race Documentary That Should Be Essential Viewing For All Americans – Matthew Jacobs / Huff Post
You won’t find a documentary over the next few months that’s more important than “I Am Not Your Negro.” Raoul Peck uses James Baldwin’s unfinished…
White nationalism, a term once on the fringes, now front and center : What is it? – Joe Sterling / CNN
Why Donald Trump’s election means we must work together for a Third Reconstruction in America – Dr. William J. Barber II / Bill Moyers & Company
The reactionary wave that swept across America with the election of Donald Trump is not an anomaly in our history. It is an all-too-familiar pattern…
2016, Meet 1877: Trump’s Ascendance Is Creepily Like the End of Reconstruction – Barrett Holmes Pitner/ The Daily Beast
Research says there are ways to reduce racial bias. Calling people racist isn’t one of them – German Lopez / Vox
The renowned PBS journalist Gwen Ifill died on Monday, at the age of sixty-one – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Watch RIKERS Documentary – A riveting new film that brings you face to face with what it’s like to be incarcerated in America – Bill Moyers & Company
Rikers Island is New York City’s largest jail. It has also been ranked as one of the 10 worst jails in America. Of the more…
Making America White Again – Toni Morrison / The New Yorker
The choices made by white men, who are prepared to abandon their humanity out of fear of black men and women, suggest the true horror…
In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past – Ron Stodghill / NYT
The compulsion to engage the Charleston area’s complex history as a slave-trading center was, for the writer, a visceral thing, akin to the urge to…
Lets Lighten Up – Watch Sugarhill Gang’s Rapturous ‘Rapper’s Delight’ on ‘Conan’ – Jon Blistein / Rolling Stone
On the stage of the legendary Apollo Theater, original members Michael “Wonder Mike” Wright and Guy “Master Gee” O’Brien cruised through portions of their original…
‘Racial Battle Fatigue’ Is Real: Victims of Racial Microaggressions Are Stressed Like Soldiers in War – David Love / Atlanta Black Star
“They Knew What was at Stake”: 2016 Latino Voter Turnout Higher for Clinton Than for Obama / Democracy Now
Fewer people voted in this election than voted in 2012,” notes Juan González, journalist and Democracy Now! co-host, but he argues that data from Latino…
The GOP’s Attack on Voting Rights Was the Most Under-Covered Story of 2016 – Ari Berman / The Nation
The real reason we have an Electoral College: to protect slave states – Sean Illing / Vox
Breitbart, Reveling in Trump’s Election, Gains a Voice in His White House – Michael M. Grynbaum and John Herrman / NYT
Barber: Don’t let election disappointment deter march toward justice – Deidra Laird / The Charlotte Observer
The Rev. William Barber gave the sermon Sunday at a 5 p.m. service staged by the Charlotte Clergy Coalition for Justice. Barber, who founded the…
The Black Press and Black Journalist Face New Reality in the Era of Trump – Jason Johnson / The Root
The Alt-Right Hails Its Victorious God-Emperor – Andrew Marantz / The New Yorker
Racist Incidents And Attacks Surge at US Universities – Associated Press / Talkingpointsmemo
No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear – Toni Morrison / The Nation
Two Americas in One Photograph – Vinson Cunningham / The New Yorker
After Barack Obama and Donald Trump met on Thursday in the Oval Office—this was the first time they’d ever formally met, which makes sense, I…
What Whiteness Means in the Trump Era – Nell Irvin Painter / NYT
Donald J. Trump campaigned on the slogan “Make America Great Again,” a phrase whose “great” was widely heard as “white.” Certainly the election has been…
How Donald Trump Became President-Elect – John Cassidy / The New Yorker
A Black Man in the White House: Barack Obama and the Triggering of America’s Racial-Aversion Crisis by Cornell Belcher
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk . America’s racial…
Malcolm X on Donald Trump – You Tube
Insert Trump for Goldwater. Malcolm X’s commentary on Goldwater running for president in 1964 is eerily relevant to our elections today. Watch here
