Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
How Black Lives Matter born on the streets, is rising to power on campus – Sandhya Somashekhar / Wash Post
This is America in the age of decay: How we became a civilization dominated by racism and rage – Daniel Denuir / Salon
Campus racism makes minority students likelier to drop out of college. Mizzou students had to act – Andre M. Perry / Wash Post
An Open Letter to All Black Students at Predominantly White Institutions – Brandon Patterson / Huff Post
The Psychological Toll of Racism in the Wake of Mizzou – Zeba Blay / Huff Post
What is the Biggest Misconception About Racism – The Atlantic / You Tube
At this year’s Aspen Ideas Festival, we asked a group of professors, activists, and authors to weigh in on misconceptions about race and racism….
What Divides Us? An interview with Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Tale of Two Campuses: White and Black Mizzou – Erica Wright / Huff Post
The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey into Manhood – Kevin Powell
In the spirit of Piri Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets and Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, this powerful memoir by writer…
A racial reckoning on campuses is overdue. The protests at Missouri won’t be the last – Libby Nelson / Vox
U. Missouri unrest a signal for other schools, experts say – Yamiche Alcindor / USA Today
Why the Mizzou Protests Are a Watershed Moment in Sports Activism – Maxwell Strachan / Huff Post
If you care about this week at Mizzou, you should know the story of the Black 14 – Adam Kilgore / Wash Post
Toward Basic Rights for College Athletes – Taylor Branch / The Atlantic
A Horrifying Animation of a Racist Preacher’s Descent Into Madness – Einar Baldvin / The Atlantic
Einar Baldvin’s disorienting film, The Pride of Strathmoor, is an artful and complex animated short that crawls into your mind and refuses to leave. Set in Strathmoor,…
For Black Millennials, a determined hope tempered by frustration – Henry Gass / Christian Sci Monitor
Police Killings Surpass the Worst Years of Lynching, Capital Punishment and a Movement Responds – Jerome Karabel / Huff Post
Slavery, the Nazis and the KKK: We can’t face the past and it’s poisoning our future – Andrew O’Hehir / Salon
White Republicans are revolting: They keep winning elections and keep getting angrier – David T.S. Jonas / Salon
The Dying of the Whites – Ross Douthat / NYT
Dear white America: Your working class is literally dying – and this is your idea of an answer? Chauncey Devega/ Salon
Racism? By whom? This video of Texas cops stopping a black professor is a racial “Rorschach test’ – Michael Miller / Wash Post
Death Rates Rising for Middle Aged White Americans, Study Finds – Gina Kolata / NYT
Obama’s big push to address race, quietly – Harry Bruinius / Christian Sci Monitor
Past Voices – In 1865, a writer took aim at the deadly dehumanization of black lives that plagued the US then as it does today – Taylor Lewis /The Nation
“It’s shocking how relevant this 150 year old denunciation of American racism is today.” Richard Kreitner Read the story
America’s White Working Class is a Dying Breed – Harold Myerson / Wash Post
Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind – Osagie Obasogie
Colorblindness has become an integral part of the national conversation on race in America. Given the assumptions behind this influential metaphor—that being blind to race…