Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Why Are Black People Still Punished for Their Hair? Ria Tabacco Mar / NYT
LeBron James’ The Shop Is an Unfiltered Glimpse Into the Black Experience in Present-Day America – Derreck Johnson / Slate
The Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult – Pankaj Mishra / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (September 3) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – The Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult. To understand the rapid mainstreaming of white supremacism in English-speaking liberal democracies today, we must…
With His South Africa Tweet, Trump Became a Megaphone for a White-Supremacist Talking Point – Carol Schaeffer / The Nation
How Far America Has Fallen – Roger Cohen / NYT
The answer to GOP dog whistles? Democrats should talk more about race, not less – Ian Haney Lopez and Anat Shenker-Osario / Wash Post
The Double Standard for Black Athletes Began Long Before Trump. Just Ask Tommie Smith and John Carlos – Richard A. Greenwald / Daily Beast
Mitch Landrieu: Racial reconciliation will help us live up to our nation’s values – Mitch Landrieu / USA Today
Prisons Are Already Retaliating Against Inmates Protesting ‘Modern Slavery’ – Tarpley Hitt / The Daily Beast
‘America to Me’ shows why all the black kids sit together in the cafeteria – Soraya Nadia McDonald / The Undefeated
America Soured on My Multiracial Family – David French / The Atlantic
Still Processing – We Spy Two BlacKkKlansmen — and One is Omarosa / NYT Podcast
Andrew Gillum and the Extent of the Progressive Revolution – Benjamin Wallace-Wells / The New Yorker
Race Inquiry Digest (August 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Andrew Gillum and the Extent of the Progressive Revolution. Gillum—the thirty-nine-year-old, outspokenly progressive, African-American mayor of Tallahassee, Florida—is running for governor this year,…
In Alabama, Challenging Hidden Racial Discrimination – Lucas Guttentag / NYT
Asian-Americans Need More Movies, Even Mediocre Ones – Viet Thanh Nguyen / NYT
Why Are Black And Latino Kids More Likely To Die Of Certain Cancers? Erin Blakemore / NPR
George Wallace: A segregationist stand for America – Brian Lyman / USA Today
How broad is support for white nationalism? Last week’s Unite the Right flop isn’t the whole story – Chauncey Devega / Salon
‘Silent Sam’: A racist Jim Crow-era speech inspired UNC students to topple a Confederate monument on campus – Antonia Noori Farzan / NYT
There Is More to Stacey Abrams Than Meets Partisan Eyes – Richard Fausset / NYT
Silicon Valley is leaving women of color behind – Sinduja Rangarajan / Salon
National Prison Strike Begins: Prisoners in 17 States Demand End to “Slave Labor” Behind Bars – Democracy Now
‘A shameful affair’: The last man lynched in Montgomery County, Md. – Eugene L. Meyer / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (August 23) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – ‘A shameful affair’: The last man lynched in Montgomery County, Md. Around 1 a.m., a lynch mob overpowered the county jailer and whisked…
Aretha Franklin—Musical Genius, Truth Teller, Freedom Fighter – Farah Jasmine Griffin / The Nation
Aretha Franklin Was the Defining Voice of the 20th Century – Jack Hamilton / Slate
Till Victory Is Won: The Staying Power Of ‘Lift Every Voice And Sing’ – Claudette Lindsay-Habermann / NPR
Overlooked No More: Sissieretta Jones, a Soprano Who Shattered Racial Barriers – Michael Cooper / NYT
