Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul – Eddie S. Glaude Jr
A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America’s great promise of equality has always rung…
Larry Wilmore: GOP didn’t care when Thurgood Marshall replaced Clarence Thomas… – Brenda Gauthier / Salon
Featured – Why Blacks and Hispanics Have Such Expensive Mortgages – Gillian B. White / The Atlantic
What Hillary Clinton’s massive win among black voters really says – Janell Ross / Wash Post
MSNBC severs ties with Melissa Harris-Perry after host’s critical email – Paul Farhi / Wash Post
The Faces of American Power, Nearly as White as the Oscar Nominees – Haeyoun Park, Josh Keller and Josh Williams / NYT
The AIDS Crisis Hasn’t Ended In The Black And Latino Communities – Rae Ellen Bichell / NPR
How Should Asian-Americans Feel About the Peter Liang Protests? Jay Caspian Kang / NYT
Cincinnati cops reveal double standards black men face – Shaun King / NY Daily News
Malcolm X and the Black Lives Matter Movement – David A. Love / Huff Post
Citizen: An American Lyric – Claudia Rankin
“Blackness in the white imagination has nothing to do with black people.” A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine’s long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking…
How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable – Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone
Minorities, for Rent ( A Satirical Website) – Matt Vasilogambros / The Atlantic
Featured – What Roles Get Black Actors to the Oscars? Aaron Byrd, John Woo and Brandon K. Thorp / NYT Video
Here’s a look at roles performed by black artists who have been nominated for a best actress or best actor Oscar — and what they…
Ferguson Digs In Its Heels – Colin Gordon / Dissent
Black Workers Matter, Too – Sarah Anderson et.al. / The Nation
Courage, Compassion and Complexity – Lovelyn Nwadeyi / Stellenbosch University / You Tube
A speech delivered on January 26, 2016 at the annual meeting of the Stellenbosch University Convocation, a statutory body comprised of alumni and fulltime academic staff…
Scalia Devoted His Professional Life To Making America Less Fair, Less Tolerant – Jeffery Toobin / Huff Post
Muhammad Ali and the Black Panther Party – Dave Zirin / The Nation
The Crisis of Minority Unemployment – The Editorial Board / NYT
The Testament Project – Kris Graves
The Testament Project is an exploration and a re-conception of contemporary black American masculinity. Black men in America are portrayed in the extreme – either…
Kendrick Lamar Live @ The 2016 Grammy Awards / Slate
Separated by decades, Eldridge Cleaver’s, ‘Soul on Ice,’ and Kendrick lamar’s performance at the 2016 Gammy Awards share much in common. Watch the performance here, also see “Deconstructing…
Albert Woodfox speaks after 43 years in solitary confinement: ‘I would not let them drive me insane’ – Ed Pilkington / theguardian
Democracy in Black: 3 Writers Wrestle With President Obama’s Blackness – Todd Steven Burroughs / The Root
I sat beside Obama at the Black Lives Matter meeting. This was no political show – Brittany Packnett / theguardian
South Carolina’s Legacy, Exploited by Trump – Brent Staples / NYT
