Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
A light-skinned Latina like me will never be able to live in the land of whiteness – Melissa Lozada-Oliva / The Guardian
Snowstorm in August : The Struggle for American Freedom – Washington Race Riot of 1835 / Jefferson Morley
In 1835, the city of Washington simmered with racial tension as newly freed African Americans from the South poured in, outnumbering slaves for the first…
50 Years Later, We Still Haven’t Leaned From Watts – Jeanne Theoharis / NYT
A Matter of Black Lives : Mitch Landrieu, the mayor of New Orleans, is on a crusade to stop the killing – Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic
Block The Vote: A Journalist Discusses Voting Rights and Restrictions – Ari Berman / NPR
Pimps, Prostitutes, Drug Dealers and the GOP’s Colorblind America – Mark Winston Griffith / The Nation
A Year After Ferguson, Housing Segregation Defies Tools To Erase It – John Eligon / NYT
Past Voices – The Speech That Defined the Fight for Voting Rights in Congress – Jim Rutenberg / NYT
Fifty years ago today, on Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, which effectively ended centuries of black disenfranchisement by…
Black Lives Matter Has Become a Global Movement – Janaya Khan / The Root
In The End ….No One Really Cared – Suzy Khimn / New Republic
Black and Unarmed – Sandhya Somashekhar, Wesley Lowery and Keith Alexander / Wash Post
Are We in The Midst of a New Civil Rights Era ? – Rebecca Onion / Slate
AP Poll: Over Half of Black Americans Say Police Have Treated Them Unfairly – Jesse J. Holland / TPM
Ferguson’s Legacy: For Blacks, empowerment amid sense of injustice – Patrik Jonsson / Christian Science Monitor
A man elected before his time in Miss. gives politics one more go – Scott Rodd / Wash Post
Between Pain and Despair : What Ta-Nehisi Coates is Missing – Melvin L. Rogers / Dissent
Lifting the burden of race: What an Obama led commission could learn from Clinton’s failed One American Initiative on Race – Carol V.R. George / Salon
Possibilities : A Search For Personal Liberation – Ronald J. Sheehy
In this soul-searching memoir, Possibilities: A Search for Personal Liberation, Dr. Ronald J. Sheehy, highly respected scientist, teacher and educator, unlocks the door to personal…
Are You Haitian? Greg Grandin / The Nation
White Flight Never Ended – Alana Semuels / The Atlantic
Jazz Heavyweight Terence Blanchard Won’t Turn a Blind Eye – Jacob Blickenstaff / Mother Jones
How Germany dealt with its symbols of hate – Matthew Schofield / Sunherald
Thanks to the Supreme Court Traffic Stops Can Become a Gamble of Life and Death – Charles D. Ellison / The Root
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ brilliant inspiration: Remembering James Baldwin’s influence on his 91st birthday – Amy Kittelstrom / Salon
How Slavery’s Legacy Affects the Mental Health of Black Americans – Alma Carten / The New Republic
The Shooting of Charles Dubose – Charles M. Blow / NYT
