Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Chicago’s Inescapable Segregation – Melinda D. Anderson / The Atlantic
I Have a Black Son in Baltimore’: Anxious New Parents and an Era of Unease – Rachel L. Swarns / NYT
“There was a market for white resentment”: Tim Wise on Trump, David Duke and the bigotry that’s risen from the shadows – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Read or listen: Interview with Tim Wise about what the Trump phenomenon portends for the future of U.S. politics. Read or listen here.
Prosecutors say Dylann Roof ‘self-radicalized’ online, wrote another manifesto in jail – Mark Berman / Wash Post
America’s Pay Gap Could Cost Black Women More Than $1 Million – Catherine Pearson / Huff Post
When enslaved people sued Georgetown’s founders for freedom – William G. Thomas III / Wash Post
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
A New York Times bestseller “An impassioned analysis of headline-making cases….Timely, controversial, and bound to stir already heated discussion.” —Kirkus Reviews “A thought-provoking and important…
Whether the establishment likes it or not, white nationalists still power the Trump train – Alex Kotch / Salon
Trump’s Outreach to Black Voters Isn’t About Black Voters – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
Trump’s real endgame: A white nationalist media empire? Greg Sargent / Wash Post
Racial Politics After Obama – Brandon M. Terry / Dissent
On Social Media, As In Life, White People Are Way Less Likely To Talk About Race – Gene Demby / NPR
‘Racialists’ are cheered by Trump’s latest strategy – David Weigel / Wash Post
A surprising way to think about slavery / 60 Minutes Overtime
Historian and museum director Lonnie Bunch shows Scott Pelley a capital of the slave trade and explains why slavery is a story of strength in…
Is Andre Ward the last great African-American boxer? Sunni Khalid / The Undefeated
Our Drug Laws Have Always Been Racist: America’s Ugly History of Prohibition as a Tool to Oppress Minorities – David Bearman / Alternet
Affluent and Black, and Still Trapped by Segregation – John Eligon and Robert Gebeloff / NYT
Why well-off black families end up living in poorer areas than white families with similar or even lower incomes. MILWAUKEE — Their daughter was sick…
Racial Violence in Milwaukee Was Decades in the Making, Residents Say – John Eligon / NYT
Danny Glover & Larry Hamm on Black Lives Matter, Police Killings & How to Stop Donald Trump / Democracy Now
In New Jersey, lawmakers have recently introduced legislation that would require the state’s attorney general to review every death at the hands of law enforcement….