Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Childish Gambino captures the grim surrealism of being black in America – Mitchell S. Jackson / The Guardian
Unseen photographs of civil rights conflict in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 – Greg Whitmore / The Guardian
Starbucks, Yale, and the Abuse of 911 Against Black Americans – Matt Ford / The New Republic
Russian Trolls Were Obsessed With Black Lives Matter – April Glaser / Slate
There’s No Good Excuse For The Racist Impact Of Michigan’s Medicaid Proposal – Arthur Delaney / HuffPost
When Jurors Are Silenced – The Editorial Board / NYT
Let Them Eat Trump Steaks – Paul Krugman / NYT
FST presents Gilbert King – Beneath A Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found / You Tube
Liberal hope is dangerous: Don’t count on Mueller or the blue wave to save America from Trump – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Race Inquiry Digest (May 10) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – William Barber Takes on Poverty and Race in the Age of Trump. The Reverend Dr. William Barber, a pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church,…
I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye – Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic
How a Wave of Honest History Museums Is Changing Black Tourism – Ashton Lattimore / Slate
Young people of color most affected by police killings: study – Nicole Karlis / Salon
Mississippi Delta Chinese-Americans Challenge Idea Of Monolithic Asian America – Kimberly Yam and Christy Havranek / HuffPost
She Hails From Tribal Chiefs. Now She’s Ready To Be Idaho’s Governor – Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost
Fighting Street Gun Violence as if It Were a Contagion – Tina Rosenberg / NYT
How Indians See Nikki Haley – Bobby Ghosh / The Daily Beast
White fear elected Trump: Political scientist Diana Mutz on the “status threat” hypothesis – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece, ‘Barracoon,’ finally sees the light of day – Tayari Jones / Wash Post
William Barber Takes on Poverty and Race in the Age of Trump – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
The Historian Behind Slavery Apologists Like Kanye West – Brian Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle / NYT
Prisoners Reclaim Their Heritage Through Asian-American Studies Program – Kimberly Yam / HuffPost
The Windrush Crisis and Britain’s Memory Problem – Adam Thomas / Black Perspectives
Ranks of Notorious Hate Group Include Active-Duty Military – A.C. Thompson and Ali Winston / ProPublica
The racial redlining in Michigan’s Medicaid work requirements – Amanda Michelle Gomez / ThinkProgress
Parents Do What the Mayor Hasn’t — Integrate Schools – Mara Gay / NYT
As Israel turns 70, many young American Jews turn away – Dov Waxman / The Conversation
How African-Americans disappeared from the Kentucky Derby – Katherine Moony / The Conversation
America is more diverse than ever – but still segregated – Aaron Williams and Armand Emamdjomeh / Wash Post
When Southern Newspapers Justified Lynching – Brent Staples / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (May 7) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – When Southern Newspapers Justified Lynching. Newspapers even bragged about the roles they had played in arranging particularly spectacular lynchings. But the real damage…