Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Race Inquiry Digest (April 23) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – How Alabama could become ‘Ground Zero’ in renewed battle over Confederate symbols. Two competing narratives of the Civil War and the Southern Reconstruction…
When Calling the Police Is a Privilege – Adam Harris / The Atlantic
When white colleges make black students’ worlds smaller instead of bigger – Cassandra Jackson / Wash Post
Trump challenges Native Americans’ historical standing – Dan Diamond / Politico
Election 2018 Is Off to the Racists – Donna Minkowitz / The Nation
Is it a coincidence that Trump uses the language of white supremacy? Dana Milbank / Wash Post
Boehner Benefits From Weed. Blacks Are in Prison for Using It – Vincent M. Southerland and Johanna B. Steinberg / NYT
The History of White Power – Kathleen Belew / NYT
The Democrats’ Gentrification Problem – Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Galley Talk: ‘Ghost Boys’ by Jewell Parker Rhodes ( A Review) – Eugenia Vela / Pub Weekly
How Alabama could become ‘Ground Zero’ in renewed battle over Confederate symbols – John Sharp / AL.com
Race Inquiry Digest (April 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Was the Confederacy really defeated? Why America can’t stop fighting the Civil War. How can we reconcile the rise of Donald Trump with…
Watch: The Memphis Sanitation Strike Ends – Kirsten West Savali, and Emily Yelllin / The Root
The Unlikely Pairing of Louis Armstrong With Ella Fitzgerald Is (Still) Pure Bliss – Jon Young / Mother Jones
Stacey Abrams, the Candidate for Georgia Governor Who Could Make History – Charles Bethea / The New Yorker
Why a Statue of the ‘Father of Gynecology’ Had to Come Down – Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Kendrick Lamar Wins Pulitzer in ‘Big Moment for Hip-Hop’ – Joe Coscarelli / NYT
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
