Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Witnessing a Rally for a Brand-New Confederate Monument – Alexis Okeowo / The New Yorker
Were Black Progressives Wrong to Not Support Clinton, Opening the Door for Trump’s Victory? AJ Springer / Atl Black Star
Why Barack Obama Is Right to Play It Quiet for Now – Jamil Smith / The Daily Beast
Trump could blow lid off GOP’s well-mannered white supremacy – Jason Sattler / USA Today
Should Confederate monuments come down? Here’s what South Africa did after apartheid – Carolyn E. Holmes / Wash Post
Unemployment in Black and White – The Editorial Board / NYT
Fascism, American Style – Paul Krugman / NYT
White ‘Power’ and the Fear of Replacement – Abigail Levin and Lisa Guenther / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (August 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Warning signs of mass violence – in the US? There are those who say that comparing President Donald Trump’s rhetoric to that of Adolf Hitler…
She Wants to Replace Confederate Statues With Statues of Black Heroes – Michael Daly / Daily Beast
Meet the New Klan, Same as the Old Klan (Almost) – Linda Gordon / Daily Beast
A Catastrophe for Houston’s Most Vulnerable People – Tanvi Misra / The Atlantic
Trump’s Pardon of Joe Arpaio ‘Is a Presidential Endorsement of Racism,’ ACLU Says – Sam Stein / The Daily Beast
A black man went undercover online as a white supremacist. This is what he learned – Peter Holley / Wash Post
Donald Trump’s Identity Politics – Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Donald Trump, ‘King of Alabama’? – Charles M. Blow / NYT
Seeking justice for the mass hanging of black soldiers after the bloody 1917 Houston riots – DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
Even With Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago – Jermy Ashkenas et al / NYT
Warning signs of mass violence – in the US? Max Pensky and Nadia Rubaii / The Conversation
Race Inquiry Digest (August 24) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Confederate Statues and ‘Our’ History. President Trump’s Thursday morning tweet lamenting that the removal of Confederate statues tears apart “the history and culture…
How the Republican party quietly does the bidding of white supremacists – Russ Feingold / The Guardian
The US government destroyed the Ku Klux Klan once. It could do so again – Allyson Hobbs / The Guardian
Kaepernick, activism and politics. The NFL doesn’t know how to stop this row – Les Carpenter / The Guardian
It Is Time to Examine the Words and the Origins of Our National Anthem, Another Neo-Confederate Symbol – Jefferson Morley / AlterNet
Before Mayweather-McGregor, there was Ali-Inoki – Sunni Khalid / The Undefeated
FDR’s Message to Charlottesville—and to Donald Trump – Michael Fullilove / The Atlantic
Pride and Prejudice – Timothy Shenk / Dissent
Black conservatives who backed Trump are suddenly offended — but they sold their souls long ago – Chauncey Devega / Salon
White supremacists are openly using Nazi symbols. That’s a warning to all of us – Sara J Bloomfield / Wash Post
When the Harlem Renaissance Went to Communist – Jennifer Wilson / NYT
