Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
CNN poll: Americans split on anthem protests – Jennifer Agiesta / CNN
Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Making of a Public Intellectual – Concepcion De Leon / NYT
The NFL, Charlottesville, and Trump’s pattern of racial division – Ronald Brownstein / CNN
Hugh Hefner’s real progressive legacy isn’t sexual, it’s racial – Rachel Leah / Salon
When White Supremacists Ruled Washington – Brent Staples / NYT
Taking a knee has always been a sign of reverence, not disrespect – Luke Bretherton / Wash Post
Race Inquiry Digest (September 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – ‘Sisterhood’ Felt Meaningless. So My Sisters and I Got in the Car. We wanted to find women who could remind us that another, more…
Calling Out the Kobach Commission for What It Is – Emma Olson Sharkey / Bill Moyers
Jemele Hill on doing the right thing – Jemele Hill / The Undefeated
How Puerto Rico Is Becoming Trump’s Katrina – Tom Dickinson / Rolling Stone
This Student Band That Kneeled to Play the Anthem Understands Racial Injustice Better Than Trump – Jackie Mogensen / Mother Jones
Trump Made Kaepernick’s Protest About Him. Here’s How to Take it Back – Mychal Denzel Smith / New Republic
The Mounting Attack on Organized Labor and What it Means for African-Americans – D. Amari Jackson / Atl Black Star
Dave Chappelle Delivers Scathing Riff on Charlottesville at ‘Def Comedy Jam 25’ – Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast
After White Supremacists Marched Through Campus, UVA Grapples With Change – Andy Campbell et al / Cavalier Daly
When Black Children Are Targeted for Punishment – Derrick Darby and John L. Rury / NYT
‘Sisterhood’ Felt Meaningless. So My Sisters and I Got in the Car – Kaitlyn Greenidge / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (September 25) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – The Racial Demagoguery of Trump’s Assaults on Colin Kaepernick and Steph Curry. Every day, and in countless and unexpected ways, Donald Trump, the…
Trump’s Attack On Black Athletes May Bring a League to Its Feet – Robert Silverman / The Daily Beast
The Caribbean, the U.S., and how their past and present are intertwined – Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
America Has Never Truly Atoned For Slavery. John Conyers Has Pressed the Issue for Nearly 30 Years – Brandon Ellington Patterson / Mother Jones
Flint Had a Lead Crisis in Its Water. Now It Has a Fertility Crisis – Edwin Rios / Mother Jones
The Myth of Robert E. Lee And The “Good” Slave Owner – Glenn David Brasher / The Daily Beast
The African American Museum a year later: Still the hottest ticket in town – Phillip Kennicott / Wash Post
‘The American War’: Why you need to understand American racism to understand what happened in Vietnam – Alyssa Rosenberg / Wash Post
Stone Mountain: The ugly past and fraught future of the biggest Confederate monument – Steve Hendrix / Wash Post
Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler
Butler has hit his stride. This is a meditation, a sonnet, a legal brief, a poetry slam and a dissertation that represents the full bloom…
The Racial Demagoguery of Trump’s Assaults on Colin Kaepernick and Steph Curry – David Remnick / The New Yorker
Race Inquiry Digest (September 21) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – How America can respond to the ‘whitelash.’ It’s time to reckon with our shared racial history, and plot a path forward. Deeply disturbed…
He allegedly murdered 2 black men. Police found an Adolf Hitler speech in his home – German Lopez / Vox
