Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Malcolm X – The Last Speech / You Tube
Malcolm delivered this speech in 1965 on the very night that his home in New York was firebombed. He was tired and worried, yet he still showed…
Race and the Storm – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Police Abuse Is a Form of Terror – Charles M. Blow / NYT
How White Users Made Heroin a Public Health Problem – Andrew Cohen / The Atlantic
Cuba’s Star-Spangled Slavery – Christopher Dickey / The Daily Beast
Exclusion of Blacks From Juries Raises Renewed Scrutiny – Adam Liptak / NYT
Could black people in the U.S. qualify as refugees? Raha Jorjani / Wash Post
The Rebirth of Black Rage – Mychal Denzel Smith / The Nation
Children Caught in a Racist System – The Editorial Board / NYT
Movie Review : Straight Outta Compton – Odie Henderson / Roger Ebert
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…
