Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
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…
Ten Confederate Memorials That are Somehow Still Standing – Kali Holloway / Salon via Alternet
The Supreme Court Takes on the All-White Jury – Spencer Amdur / New Republic
The Price of Union: The Undefeatable South – Nicholas Lemann / The New Yorker
