Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Rap in Rio : Why hip-hop is the new sound in the city of samba – Dom Phillips / Wash Post
Here Are the 10 States with The Most Hate Groups – Sam Stebbins / Huff Post
South Carolina’s losing battle to rewrite its racist history – Eugene Robinson / Wash Post
Past Voices – Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln
Delivered at the Unveiling of The Freedmen’s Monument in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C. April 14, 1876 The Occasion Friends and Fellow-citizens: “I warmly congratulate you…
Black Churches Are Burning Again in America – Emma Green / The Atlantic
The Housing Recovery Has Skipped Poor and Minority Neighborhoods – David Dayen / The New Republic
Obama Administration to unveil major new rules targeting segregation across U.S. – Emily Badger / Wash Post
How Texas is whitewashing Civil War history – Editorial Board / Wash Post
Germany Has Lessons For the South – Anand Giridharadas / NYT
The Science of Race, Revisited – David Freeman / Huff Post
Dear White America – Tim Wise
“Sparing neither family nor self . . . he considers how the deck has always been stacked in his and other white people’s favor. ….
The Memorial Where Slavery is Real – Ben Wofford / Politico
America’s Postracial Fantasy – Anna Holmes / NYT
Republicans Don’t Find Racism To Be As Serious A Problem As The Rest of America – Janie Velencia / Huff Post
Arthur Ashe: 40 Years After His Historic Wimbledon Win, His Legacy Lives Beyond The Tennis Court – Deron Snyder / The Root
The Declaration’s dual traditions: Broad equality and equality for whites – Danielle Allen / Wash Post
Past Voices – The Story of Denmark Vesey – Thomas Wentworth Higginson / June 1861 Issue – The Atlantic
On Saturday afternoon, May 26th, 1822, a slave named Devany, belonging to Colonel Prioleau of Charleston, South Carolina, was sent to market by his mistress—the…
The Lease Diverse Jobs in America – Bourree Lam / The Atlantic
After Dominican Republic pulls up welcome mat, Haitians ask ‘what next’ – Ezra Fieser / Christian Science Monitor
Why do people believe myths about the Confederacy? Because our textbooks and monuments are wrong – James Loewen / Wash Post
A Conversation With White People on Race – Blair Foster and Michele Stephenson / NYT
Past Voices – “The Negro Question” – Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
This text was written by Albert Einstein in 1946. I am writing as one who has lived among you in America only a little more…
The end of affirmative action? Eric Levitz / MSNBC
Loving Day – Mat Johnson
Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: His marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comics shop in…
America Finally Turns Its Attention to Rampant Racism – Markus Feldenkirchen / Spigel Online
Last Battles – Jalani Cobb / The New Yorker
