Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Psychologist John Gartner: “Two years ago I compared Trump to Hitler. People didn’t believe me.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Clarence Thomas’s Astonishing Opinion on a Racist Mississippi Prosecutor. By Jeffrey Toobin / The New Yorker
Joe Biden’s Racial Dog Whistle. By Matt Ford / The New Republic
Politics Shape The Debate Over What To Call Far-Right Extremism. By Hannah Allam / NPR
72 Philadelphia Police Officers Placed On Desk Duty Over Offensive Social Media Posts. By Bobby Allyn / NPR
Joy Harjo named first Native American poet laureate. By Alex Johnson / NBC News
Review: The Wrenching ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ Becomes an Opera. By Anthony Tommasini / NYT
Toni Morrison doc filmmaker on her banned books: “People are afraid … of powerful black women” By Gary M. Kramer / Salon
The N.B.A.’s Draft Show Goes On, With Style — Even if It Shouldn’t. By Wesley Morris / NYT
Richard Wright discovers Joe Louis’ dynamite. By Randy Roberts / The Undefeated
Race Inquiry Digest (June 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Afro-Textured hair : Everything you ever wanted to know about Afro-textured hair. By Wikipedia.
It’s Juneteenth, and a White Nationalist Is President. By Barrett Holmes Pitner / Daily Beast
Jesse Jackson on Reparations: ‘We Are Due a Different Kind of Recognition.’ By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
Why the racial wealth gap persists, more than 150 years after emancipation. By Calvin Schermerhorn / Wash Post
Mitch McConnell says America made up for slavery by electing Barack Obama. By Luke Barnes / ThinkProgress
Netflix’s The Edge of Democracy charts the slippery slope from democracy to authoritarian rule. By Alissa Wilkinson / Vox
Trump Is Changing the Shape of the Democratic Party, Too. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
New documentary on Charleston church shooting explores idea of forgiveness. By Jamie Aten / Wash Post
No African American has won statewide office in Mississippi in 129 years – here’s why. John A. Tures and Seth Golden / The Conversation
Supreme Court hands Democrats a win in Virginia racial gerrymander case. By Ariane de Vogue, Ryan Nobles and Devan Cole / CNN
The Nonwhite Working Class. By Henry Grabar / Slate
Adidas Sells Diversity. Black Employees Say It Doesn’t Practice It. By Julie Creswell and Kevin Draper / NYT
California Governor Apologizes For State’s History Of Violence Against Native Americans. By Dominique Mosbergen / HuffPost
Who Is Clarence Avant? True Story of Music’s Most Influential Exec Revealed in Netflix’s ‘The Black Godfather.’ By Janice Williams / Newsweek
Twenty-five years ago, O.J. Simpson showed white Americans just how conditional their comfort with black athletes was. By Phillip Lamarr Cunningham / Wash Post
The Los Angeles County DA Has Put 22 People on Death Row. Not One of Them Was White. By Nathalie Baptiste / Mother Jones
Four years ago this week: Trump’s escalator ride and the Charleston shooting. It’s not a coincidence. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (June 24) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Richard Wright discovers Joe Louis’ dynamite. By Randy Roberts / The Undefeated
After Oprah’s Central Park Five interview, you realize that a $41 million settlement will never be enough. By Ernest Owens / The Grio
House To Hold Reparations Hearing With Testimony From Ta-Nehisi Coates. By Errin Haines Whack / AP
