Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Why Sessions’ Anti-Marijuana Agenda Is Racist – David S. Cohen / Rollling Stone
Trump administration to delay Obama rule combating housing segregation – Danielle McLean / ThinkProgress
Trump’s voting commission failed, but the GOP’s war on voting rights still threatens 2018 elections – Sam Fulwood III / ThinkProgress
Good news from today’s jobs report: The tight labor market is helping to reduce the racial unemployment gap – Jared Bernstein / Wash Post
Republicans Propose Statue to Black Confederate Soldiers. Yes, Really – Barrett Holmes Pitner / Daily Beast
How Medical Racism Created A Black Anti-Abortion Movement – Alanna Vagianos / HuffPost
For Native Americans, a Historic Moment on the Path to Power at the Ballot Box – Julie Turkewitz / NYT
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
As U.S. Becomes More Diverse, What Role Will Nonwhites Play In Furthering White Supremacy? David Love / Atl Black Star
Race Inquiry Digest (January 4) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – 4 Reasons for a surprising change in racial incarceration trendlines. It’s long been a given that racial disparities plague the nation’s criminal justice…
Trump’s Pick to Run 2020 Census Has Defended Racial Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression Laws – Ari Berman / Mother Jones
How Ella Mae Wray Seized the Opportunities of 1968 – Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic
Bridging black and white: How St. Louis residents are trying to surmount racial inequities post-Ferguson – Christa Case Bryant / CS Monitor
The Supreme Court’s Quiet Assault on Civil Rights – Lynn Adelman / Dissent
The NFL Chose to Tank Its Season Rather Than Sign Colin Kaepernick – Dave Zirin / The Nation
White voters are moving to the South — and making it more Democratic – Denny Hayes / Wash Post
Florida may restore voting rights to 1.7 million ex-felons: So long, Republicans! Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Federal judge green-lights desegregation housing rule after Carson tries to block it – Amanda Michelle Gomez / ThinkProgress
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan and the American Political Tradition By Linda Gordon
4 Reasons for a surprising change in racial incarceration trendlines – Phillip Smith / Salon via Alternet
Race Inquiry Digest (January 1) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests ? Trump’s first year in office revived an age-old debate about why…
The Next Financial Crisis Will Be Worse Than the Last One – Nomi Prins / Truthdig via Alternet
Will America Ever Really Trust Black Women? Mychal Denzel Smith / New Republic
The Rise and Fall of the Racist Right – Vegas Tenold / New Republic
The show was supposed to bring black and white students together. It almost tore them apart – Robert Samuels / Wash Post
S. Allen Counter : Harvard neurophysiologist, explorer, ethnographer, social-justice advocate – Michael Paterniti / NYT
How the news media distorts black families – Nicole Rodgers and Rashad Robinson / Wash Post
Arizona Can’t Ban Mexican-American Studies Anymore, Judge Says – Roque Planas / HuffPost
Sessions Says to Courts: Go Ahead, Jail People Because They’re Poor – Chiraag Bains / NYT
Watch – The 5 best hip-hop albums of 2017 – Rachel Leah / Salon
