Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Proud Boys and Allies to Rally in D.C. to Capitalize on ‘Trumpstravaganza.’ By Will Sommer / Daily Beast
Civil Rights Groups Have Been Warning Facebook About Hate Speech In Secret Groups For Years. By Ariana Tobin / ProPublica
Florida makes the restoration of voting rights contingent on criminal debt payments. By Victoria Shineman / The Conversation
New Data Finds Black Homebuyers, Despite Their Income, Are More Than Twice as Likely Than Whites to Be Denied Mortgages. By Tanasia Kenney / AtlBlackStar
Dear Kamala Harris, here’s why Joe Biden worked with segregationists in the Senate. By Ross K. Baker / USA Today
Kamala Harris is right about busing: It worked, and should be used to end segregation today. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Kamala Harris and Classmates Were Bused Across Berkeley. The Experience Changed Them. By Nellie Bowles / NYT
Venus Williams Blazed a Trail for Coco Gauff, Who Looks Like the Future of Tennis. By Gerald Marzorati / The New Yorker
Everyone in the NBA Just Changed Teams. By Josh Levin / Slate
“What to the Slave Is 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech. By Democracy Now
Race Inquiry Digest (July 8) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Inherently Unequal: The life and afterlife of Plessy v. Ferguson. By David Cole / The Nation
MSNBC’s Joy Reid: How America can save itself from Trump and Trumpism. By Dean Obeidallah / Salon
Democrats must just bring down Trump – for the sake of the world. Robert Reich / The Guardian
The deep American roots of white supremacy. By Fareed Zakaria / CNN
Joe Biden’s record on school desegregation busing, explained. By P.R. Lockhart / Vox
Kamala Harris Is Surging and Birtherism Is Back. By Will Sommer / Daily Beast
There’s still a ban on federal funds for school busing. By Zachary B. Wolf / CNN
Frederick Douglass would be outraged at Trump’s Fourth of July self-celebration. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Democrats’ Cautious Return to the War on Poverty. By Osita Nwanevu / The New Yorker
Want to Be Less Racist? Move to Hawaii. By Moises Velasquez-Manoff / NYT
California to become first state to ban discrimination against natural hair. By Doha Madani and Janelle Griffith / NBC News
Boycott by Whites of South African Restaurant Reflects Growing Sense of Grievance. By Kimon de Greef and Norimitsu Onishi / NYT
Supreme Court Hands GOP Big Victory on Gerrymandering, Ensuring “Massive Election Rigging.” By Ari Berman / Democracy Now
Poverty Doesn’t Make You Racist. By Nathan Newman / Dissent
Not all Americans have a fair path to a good death – racial disparities are real. By Jason Ashe and Danielle L. Beatty Moody / The Conversation
Frances Tiafoe: The story behind tennis’ unlikely hero. By Jerry Bembry / The Undefeated
Trump remains dominant among white voters — Democrats can’t afford to be complacent. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (July 4) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – “What to the Slave Is 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech. By Democracy Now
Joe Biden’s “Jim Crow moment” was dreadful — but he may be Democrats’ best shot. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
‘Segregationist’ barely begins to describe the racist Dixiecrats that Joe Biden worked with in the Senate. By Will Haygood / Wash Post
