Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
University History Departments Have a Race Problem – Josephine Livingstone / New Republic
When Race Tips the Scales in Plea Bargaining – Jenn Rolnick Borchetta and Alice Fontier / Slate
When Black Lives Mattered: Why Teach Reconstruction – Adam Sanchez / The Nation
Majority Of White Americans Say They Believe Whites Face Discrimination – Don Gonyea / NPR
‘Insulting African American Gold Star widows has a history’ – Derek Hawkins / Wash Post
Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr, a new civil rights leader takes center stage – Oliver laughland / The Guardian
Race Inquiry Digest (October 23) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – A fallen black soldier being disrespected? That’s not an aberration in America. The reported treatment of Sergeant La David Johnson’s family is part…
LeBron James on Race Relations, Donald Trump, Retirement – Sam Blum / Rolling Stone
A Mississippi Town Finally Desegregated Its Schools, 60 Years Late – Edwin Rios / Mother Jones
New short film explores colorism with pain, truth, and love – Kay Wicker / ThinkProgress
The History of Russian Involvement in America’s Race Wars – Julia Ioffe / The Atlantic
Obesity, Hunger: Two Sides of Same Coin in Black Food Deserts – Nareissa Smith / Atl Black Star
White supremacy’s global boom has anti-racist activists fighting back – Sophia A. McClennen / Salon
Our silent Civil War: Debate over statues didn’t come out of thin air – Edward L. Ayers / Salon
Bree Newsome Thinks Allies Should Be Protesting – Ana Marie Cox / NYT
Black Lives Matter Is Democracy in Action – Barbara Ransby / NYT
Watch: Lawrence O’Donnell Dismantles John Kelly’s Disgraceful New Defense of Donald Trump – Tom Boggioni / Raw Story
A fallen black soldier being disrespected? That’s not an aberration in America – Ameer Hasan Loggins / The Guardian
Race Inquiry Digest (October 19) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Values Voters Summit Props Up Our White-Supremacist Corporate Oligarchy. These Christian nationalists serve only the wealthiest Americans and take every opportunity to…
NFL owners, players meet to talk race, justice and working together – Jason Reid / The Undefeated
Black Superheroes Matter: Why a ‘Black Panther’ Movie Is Revolutionary – Tre Johnson / Rolling Stone
New Documentary Blends Civil Rights Murders With Hunt for Blues Icons – Andy Greene / Rolling Stone
Bill Rhoden Talks to Jelani Cobb About Protest and Professional Sports / The New Yorker
Thelonious Monk’s Quiet, Slow Conquest of the World – David A. Graham / The Atlantic
Mississippi School Named After Jefferson Davis to be Renamed After Obama – Molly Olmstead / Slate
Trump’s Big Mouth May Have Given Colin Kaepernick a Case Against the NFL – Jeremy Stahl / Slate
How genetics undermines “scientific” arguments for racism – Adam Rutherford / Salon
Cold case no more: Police arrest 5 in ‘torturous’ 1983 slaying – Eliott C. McLauglin / CNN
The Values Voters Summit Props Up Our White-Supremacist Corporate Oligarchy – Rev. Dr. Willliam J. Barber / The Nation
Race Inquiry Digest (October 16) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – ‘Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law.’ Bill Moyers in conversation with author James Whitman about his…
