Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Watch – What Does a Reformed Racist Look Like? – Nadine Ajaka / The Atlantic Video
Scott Shepherd is a former grand dragon of the Klu Klux Klan in Tennessee, but now refers to himself as a reformed racist. Shepherd’s troubled…
Latinos Feel the Sting of Trump’s Presidency – Hector Tobar / The New Yorker
Jewish Institutions Face Another Wave of Bomb Threats – Brandon Elllington Patterson / Mother Jones
Trump’s election has created “safe spaces” for racists: Southern Poverty Law Center’s Heidi Beirich – Chauncey Devega / Salon
America’s Melting Pot Is Boiling Brown People To Death – Sahaj Kohli / Huff Post
The Real Goal of Trump’s Travel Ban Is to Make America White Again – Joan Walsh / The Nation
Liberals believe they’ve debunked the stated rationale of Donald Trump’s so-called “immigration ban,” which has been revised to try to pass legal muster this time…
White Supremacists Step Up Recruiting on Campus, Report Says – Tamara Best / NYT
At Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., a printer, suspected to have been hacked, spurted out anti-Semitic fliers in January. At Central Michigan University in Mount…
Black People More Likely to Be Wrongfully Convicted of Murder, Study Shows – Niraj Chokshi / NYT
Supreme Court Sides With Latino Man Who Says He Didn’t Get a Fair Trial – Lawrence Hurley / Huff Post
The Death of Compassion – Charles M. Blow / NYT
Folks, we have been here before. After Ronald Reagan, a celebrity-turned-politician, carried 49 states in his devastating defeat of Walter Mondale in 1984, Democrats were…
Confronting Academia’s Ties to Slavery – Jennifer Schuesslser / NYT
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1976, archivists at Harvard’s natural history museum opened a drawer and discovered a haunting portrait of a shirtless enslaved man named…
GOP bill could dismantle one of nation’s most robust school desegregation efforts – Emma Brown / Wash Post
LOUISVILLE — A remarkable experiment in school desegregation has thrived for four decades in this Kentucky city and its suburbs, surviving fierce resistance from the…
What if the Court in the Loving Case Had Declared Race a False Idea? Brent Staples – NYT
Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia struck a resonant historical note last year when he proclaimed June 12 “Loving Day,” in commemoration of Loving v. Virginia,…
There’s more to fighting racism than getting rid of a Confederate statue – David Rotenstein / Wash Post
Cornel West on Why James Baldwin Matters More Than Ever – Christopher Lydon / Lit Hub
James Baldwin was the prophetic voice of an era that isn’t over. Fifty years ago he was the intense man from Harlem who wrote, in essays…
The Giant Leap Forward of Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” – Brandon Harris / The New Yorker
Watch AGAINST ALL ODDS: The Fight for a Black Middle Class – Bill Moyers
In this revealing documentary, veteran journalist Bob Herbert examines the often heroic efforts of black families to pursue the American dream in the face of…
The racist history of Dr. Seuss and what it means in today’s context – Katie Ishizuka-Stephens / The Conscious Kid
How W.E.B. Du Bois Found His Final Resting Place in Ghana – Amy Yee / The Daily Beast
ACCRA, GHANA — At the end of a globetrotting career that took U.S. civil rights pioneer and author W.E.B. Du Bois from his home in…
The story of the week is Trump, Russia and the FBI. The rest is a distraction – Malcolm Nance / The Guardian
Racial diversity is rising in America’s suburban public schools, and many institutions are struggling to provide necessary resources – Melinda D. Anderson / The Atlantic
Hate in the Age of Trump (All across America, Klan and neo-Nazi groups are not only flourishing—they’re joining forces) – Van Jones / New Republic
We are forced to confront many things in the images that photographer Johnny Milano spent five years capturing. The ceremonial burning of a cross and…
Trump’s Tentative First Step Toward Black Voters – Graham Vyse / New Republic
Why do so many white people deny the existence of white privilege? Rando Simeo Starkey / The Undefeated
The Idea That Social Pathology Explains Issues In Black Communities Is Set for Rebirth Under Trump -Cliff Albright / Atlanta Black Star
The Sessions Effect: Trump DOJ Reverses Course In Major Texas Voter ID Case – Alice Ollstein / Talkingpointsmemo
Watch – Why African Americans left the South – what’s bringing them back – Carlos Waters / Vox
The Great Migration is a modern movement that, in many ways, is still unfolding. More than 40 percent of black Americans left Southern states to…
Stephen Bannon and Jeff Sessions, the new attorney general, have long shared a vision for remaking America – Emily Bazelon / NYT Magazine
One night in September 2014, when he was chief executive of Breitbart News, Stephen Bannon hosted cocktails and dinner at the Washington townhouse where he…
Black History Month milestones can’t blot out the bad – Colbert I. King / Wash Post
A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters – Ibram X. Kendi / NYT
Many Americans might not know the more polemical side of race writing in our history. The canon of African-American literature is well established. Zora Neale…
