Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
A Dream Undone (Inside the Campaign to Roll Back the Voting Rights Act) – Jim Rutenberg / NYT
Race – The Power of an Illusion – Sarah Schroeder / You Tube
Race – The Power of an Illusion The You Tube video is an introduction to the larger series. An eye-opening three-part series confronting our…
White people have a race – but everyone flips out when we talk about it – Jenee Desmond Harris / Vox
Obama’s Trip to Africa Changes a Narrative – Editorial Board / Christian Science Monitor
How Did Driving While Black Turn Deadly for Sandra Bland – Dan McClain / The Nation
Dylann Roof Wasn’t Charged With Terrorism Because He’s White – Julia Craven / NYT
Let’s Stop Using “White” and “Black” to Describe European-Americans and African-Americans : Here Are The Reasons Why – Ronald J Sheehy
The idea and practice of using skin color to categorize human beings has outlived its usefulness. Our visual observations are that there are few individuals…
Study: White people see Black Americans As Less Competent than “African-Americans” – German Lopez / Vox
Structural Racism Needs to Be a Presidential Campaign Issue – Jamil Smith / New Republic
How Privilege Became a Provocation – Parul Sehgal / NYT
How One Law Banning Ethnic Studies Led to its Rise – J. Winston Phippen / The Atlantic
Fearless Journalist and All-Round Badass Ida B. Wells Honored With Google Doodle – Dominique Mosbergen / Huff Post
One year after Eric Garner’s death, a quest for path out of police community hostility – Harry Bruinius / Christian Sci Monitor
Our Racial Moment of Truth – Isabel Wilkerson / NYT
What the Country Owes Harriet Tubman – Brent Staples / NYT
The radical chic of Ta – Nehisi Coates – Carlos Lozada / Wash Post
Between The World and Me – Ta – Nehisi Coates
Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the single best writer on the subject…
Plan to launch Brazil’s only slave memoir, revisit dark past – Adriana Gomez Licon / Miami Herald
Black child poverty rate holds steady, even as other groups see declines – Eilleen Patten and Jens Manuel Krogstad / Pew Res Ctr
The history of British slave ownership has been buried: now its scale can be revealed – David Olusoga / The Guardian
The Black President Some Worried About Has Arrived – Janell Ross / Wash Post
Prosecution Is About Locking Black People Up – Leon Neyfakh / Slate
Why 100 Black Intellectuals Rallied Behind This Professor – Dani McClain / The Nation
Black Bodies, White Gazes – George Yancy
Unfortunately, racism isn’t ‘over’ in America. We aren’t there yet. Everyone who has ever occupied, loved, feared or resented a human being housed in a…
Past Voices – Souls of White Folks – W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
“Souls of White Folks.” Originally published in 1920 as the second chapter in “Darkwater – Voices From Within the Veil.” I’m Intrigued “High in the tower,…
As the South Looks Backward – Jim Grimsley / Slate
