Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Over six million Americans can’t vote due to felony convictions, including one in 13 black people – Stephen Wolf / Daily Kos
Net worth of white households in D.C. region is 81 times that of black households – Perry Stein / Wash Post
Trump’s Inconvenient Racial Truth – Nikole Hannah-Jones / NYT Magazine
The Ku Klux Klan makes it official, endorses Donald Trump saying ‘Make America Great Again’ – Jen Hayden / Daily Kos
How Trump Has Helped the Christian Right Return to Its White Nationalist Roots – Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch via AlterNet
A Region That Sees Racism as a Threat to Its Economy – Alexia Fernandez Campbell / The Atlantic
American Indians Killed by Cops at Highest Rate in the Nation, but They’re Invisible in the Media – Meteor Blades / Daily Kos via AlterNet
We Can’t Stop Looking at These Unforgettable Images of the Black Panthers – Mark Murrmann / Mother Jones
For the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, two exceptional new books take on the legacy and history of one of the most powerful…
How America’s Past Shapes Native Americans’ Present – Alexia Fernandez Campbell / The Atlantic
The Miseducation of the White Man: How Our Education System Failed White Voters – George Theoharis / The Root
White armed occupiers were acquitted. Native American activists were tear gassed – Laurel Raymond / ThinkProgress
Roundtable: Four Freed Black Panthers on Party’s Legacy & Members Still Behind Bars 50 Years Later / Democracy Now
Watch the complete roundtable discussion on the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party with four former Panthers who spent decades behind bars as political…
Here’s What Nobody Understands About Race in America – Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet
A majority of Donald Trump supporters think everything has been terrible since the 1950s – Matthew Roza / Salon
Booked: When Slaveholders Controlled the Government, with Matthew Karp – Timothy Shenk / Dissent
Three women explore their racial identities – Tauhid Chappell and Julia Carpenter / Wash Post
“What are you?’’’ “Are you adopted?” “What are you mixed with?” Many photos and stories submitted to “Historically Black,” The Washington Post Tumblr project, have touched…
The age of Trump largely exists because of a resurgent white racial identity – Eric D. Knowles and Linda R. Tropp / The New Republic
Many political commentators credit Donald Trump’s rise to white voters’ antipathy toward racial and ethnic minorities. However, we believe this focus on racial resentment obscures…
Clarence Thomas’s Twenty-Five Years Without Footprints – Jeffrey Toobin / The New Yorker
This Girl Was Bullied For Her Skin Color. Now She’s A Badass Model – Cavan Sieczkowski / Huff Post
Segregation Begins in Pre-K – Michelle Chen / The Nation
Red Lines, Black Lives – How Housing Discrimination Created Inequality – Colin Gordon / Dissent
When Ta-Nehisi Coates’s made his influential “Case for Reparations” in the pages of the Atlantic in 2014, his focus, perhaps surprisingly, was not on slavery….
Indiana officials are trying to block almost 45,000 black citizens from voting – Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress
Harvard university has the largest endowment in the United States, but workers said they couldn’t pay basic living expenses – Emily Deruy / The Atlantic
In one corner of the law, minorities and women are often valued less – Kim Soffen / Wash Post
Donald Trump’s new Confederacy: At Gettysburg, he tried to evoke Lincoln’s address but ended reprising Pickett’s Charge – Chauncey Devega / Salon
The Most Astute Analysis of American Politics in 2016? SNL’s “Black Jeopardy!” Sketch. – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
Nat Turner – American Hero or Terrorist? – Village-Connect / You Tube Video – And a Discussion at Suffolk University by Three Documentary Filmmakers.
What are the distinctions between a freedom fighter and a terrorist? The debate over the meaning of Nat Turner’s slave rebellion has been at the…