Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Beyoncé and the End of Respectability Politics – Myles E. Johnson / NYT
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, freelance reporter, wins the Pulitizer for portrait of Dylann Roof / NYT
Ms. Ghansah’s portrait of Dylann Roof was cited for its “unique and powerful mix of reportage, first-person reflection and analysis of the historical and cultural…
‘Dear White People’ Season 2 Targets Alt-Right Trolls – Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast
Philadelphia Starbucks video may have an upside: This is how we discuss racism in 2018 – Nicole Karlis / Salon
Was the Confederacy really defeated? Why America can’t stop fighting the Civil War – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (April 16) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis. Black infants in America are now more than twice as likely to…
From the NFL to the World Bank, black people are being silenced – Koketso Moeti / The Guardian
Democrats can win by tackling race and class together. Here’s proof – Ian Haney Lopez, Anat Shenker-Osario and Tamara Drut / The Guardian
America once fought a war against poverty – now it wages a war on the poor – William Barber and Liz Theoharris / The Guardian
Can White Supremacists Unlearn Hate? Sarah Jones / The New Republic
My Epiphany About the Problem With Apu – Jeet Heer / The New Republic
A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing ( A Review of “High-Risers”) – Richard Rothstein / NYT
No, the BBC is not ‘blackwashing’ Troy: Fall of a City – Thomas Ling / Radiotimes
The Fight for $15 takes on the ‘Jim Crow economy’ – John Blake / CNN
Trump Wants America to Revert to the Queens of His Childhood – Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis – Linda Villarosa / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (April 12) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Walter Mondale: The Civil Rights Law We Ignored. Fifty years ago on April 11, Congress enacted the Fair Housing Act, the last of…
HUD Long Neglected These Residents. Now As They Move Out, Some Feel HUD Let Them Down Again – Molly Parker / ProPublica
Kept Out : For people of color, banks are shutting the door to homeownership – Aaron Glantz and Emmanuel Martinez / RevealNews
Joan Baez Reveals ‘Surprise Dimension’ of New ‘Civil War’ Video – Jon Bilstein / Rolling Stone
The Radicalization of American Football – Louisa Thomas / The Atlantic
Freedom for Every Citizen: The missed opportunity of the Kerner Report – William P. Jones / The Nation
California’s Higher Ed Diversity Problem – Claudio Sanchez / NPR
The preacher who used Christianity to revive the Ku Klux Klan – DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
Democrats Shouldn’t Give in to White Racism – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
After MLK’s Death, Coretta Scott King Went To Memphis To Finish His Work – Debbie Elliott / NPR
Black And Latino Children Are Often Overlooked When It Comes To Autism – Casey Rentz / NPR
Walter Mondale: The Civil Rights Law We Ignored / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (April 9) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – King’s Death Gave Birth to Hip-Hop. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. led directly to hip-hop, an era of black American culture,…
Can it Happen Here? Review: Urgent studies in rise of authoritarian America – Charles Kaiser / The Guardian
