Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Black people aren’t keeping white Americans out of college. Rich people are – Christine Emba / Wash Post
Whose Streets, Whose Stories : Who gets to make art out of black pain? Two very different new movies show why it matters – Dana Stevens / Slate
Watch Nikole Hannah-Jones on DOJ’s Attack on Affirmative Action & How School Segregation Never Ended / Democracy Now
The Policies of White Resentment – Carol Anderson / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest ( August 4 ) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – James Baldwin: How to Cool It : Read the landmark 1968 Q&A on race in America. In Esquire’s July 1968 issue, published just…
Why the lack of Indian and African faces in Dunkirk matters – Sunny Singh / The Guardian
Kyrie Irving got tired of being ‘son’ to LeBron – Stephen A. Smith / The Undefeated
The Thorny Relationship Between Asians and Affirmative Action – Alia Wong / The Atlantic
NAACP issues its first statewide travel advisory, for Missouri – Nancy Coleman / CNN
Racial Justice Demands Affirmative Action – Sherrilyn A. Ifill / NYT
Department of Justification : Stephen Bannon and Jeff Sessions have a vision to remake American justice – Emily Bazelon / NYT
In Minneapolis, response to police shooting of white woman by Somali officer has been different – Janell Ross / Wash Post
Against all odds, this Little League team reached the divisional championship. The final score doesn’t matter – Rachel Siegel / Wash Post
We don’t need a TV show about the Confederacy winning. In many ways, it did – Bree Newsome / Wash Post
Serena Williams: Black Women Deserve Better Pay – Lilly Workneh / HuffPost
James Baldwin: How to Cool It : Read the landmark 1968 Q&A on race in America -Esquire Editors / Esquire
Race Inquiry Digest (July 31) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – 100 Years Ago African-Americans Marched Down Fifth Avenue to Declare that Black Lives Matter. The “Silent Protest Parade” was the first mass African-American…
I’ll Die for This Damn Sport’: Football, Concussions and Why African-Americans Continue to Brave the Risk – D. Amari Jackson / Atl Black Star
Conference Teaches K-12 Educators to Combat ‘Whiteness’ in schools – Nathan Rubbelke / The College Fix
What Would Howard Zinn Say? – Bill Moyers
Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Detroit’: When White Directors Tell Black Stories – Toure’ / Daily Beast
Trump’s White Nationalism Torments Us Now, But the ‘Centrality of Whiteness’ Will Fade Away – Carey Purcell / AlterNet
The Police Department Cheering On Trump’s Call for Excessive Force Is Already Under Federal Oversight for Discrimination – Brandon Ellington Patterson / Mother Jones
Newark’s Long Hot Summer (The circumstances that drove the city’s 1967 uprising still haunt America to this day – Noah Remnick / The Atlantic
Historically black beach enclaves are fighting to save their history and identity – Troy McMullen / Wash Post
White Economic Privilege Is Alive and Well – Paul F. Campos / NYT
NAACP sticks by its call for charter school moratorium, says they are ‘not a substitute’ for traditional public schools – Valerie Strauss / Wash Post
Black innovators shine through history in these animated films for kids – Jenna Gray / PBS
100 Years Ago African-Americans Marched Down Fifth Avenue to Declare that Black Lives Matter – Chad Williams / Bill Moyers
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Race Inquiry Digest (July 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – What We Know — And Don’t Know — About Hate Crimes in America. Hate crimes and bias incidents are a national problem, but…