Homeless in America – Thomas L. Freidman / NYT
I began election night writing a column that started with words from an immigrant, my friend Lesley Goldwasser, who came to America from Zimbabwe in…
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Harry Belafonte: What Do We Have to Lose? Everything / NYT
O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath — America will be!” — Langston Hughes,…
Ray Allen Retires From Basketball – Jason Diamond / Rolling Stone
How Donald Trump Brought (Some of) Us Together – Keli Goff / The Daily Beast
Here’s The History Behind ‘Loving,’ A New Film About A Major Civil Rights Victory – Marina Fang / Huff Post
Beyond Lying: Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Reality – Jason Stanley / NYT
Republicans are now vowing Total War. And the consequences could be immense – Paul Waldman / Wash Post
Race/Related: The non-white vote, explained / NYT
“Michael Moore in TrumpLand” – Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
With just days until the election, we spend the hour with the Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore and talk about his surprise new movie, “Michael…
Legacy of bloody election day lingers in Florida town – Andrew Maraniss / The Undefeated
America will become more racist regardless who wins the election – Marcus Ruiz Evans / Race Inquiry
America will become more racist – after the election. Regardless of who wins. And it has absolutely nothing to do with Donald Trump. It feels…
Behind 2016’s Turmoil, a Crisis of White Identity – Amanda Taub / NYT Magazine
Call it the crisis of whiteness. White anxiety has fueled this year’s political tumult in the West: Britain’s surprising vote to exit the European Union,…
The Roots of Trump and the Tea Party: The Hidden Injuries of Class, Race and Culture – Robert Kuttner / Alternet
Over six million Americans can’t vote due to felony convictions, including one in 13 black people – Stephen Wolf / Daily Kos
Net worth of white households in D.C. region is 81 times that of black households – Perry Stein / Wash Post
Trump’s Inconvenient Racial Truth – Nikole Hannah-Jones / NYT Magazine
The Ku Klux Klan makes it official, endorses Donald Trump saying ‘Make America Great Again’ – Jen Hayden / Daily Kos
How Trump Has Helped the Christian Right Return to Its White Nationalist Roots – Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch via AlterNet
A Region That Sees Racism as a Threat to Its Economy – Alexia Fernandez Campbell / The Atlantic
American Indians Killed by Cops at Highest Rate in the Nation, but They’re Invisible in the Media – Meteor Blades / Daily Kos via AlterNet
We Can’t Stop Looking at These Unforgettable Images of the Black Panthers – Mark Murrmann / Mother Jones
For the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, two exceptional new books take on the legacy and history of one of the most powerful…
How America’s Past Shapes Native Americans’ Present – Alexia Fernandez Campbell / The Atlantic
The Miseducation of the White Man: How Our Education System Failed White Voters – George Theoharis / The Root
White armed occupiers were acquitted. Native American activists were tear gassed – Laurel Raymond / ThinkProgress
Roundtable: Four Freed Black Panthers on Party’s Legacy & Members Still Behind Bars 50 Years Later / Democracy Now
Watch the complete roundtable discussion on the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party with four former Panthers who spent decades behind bars as political…
Here’s What Nobody Understands About Race in America – Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet
A majority of Donald Trump supporters think everything has been terrible since the 1950s – Matthew Roza / Salon
Booked: When Slaveholders Controlled the Government, with Matthew Karp – Timothy Shenk / Dissent
Three women explore their racial identities – Tauhid Chappell and Julia Carpenter / Wash Post
“What are you?’’’ “Are you adopted?” “What are you mixed with?” Many photos and stories submitted to “Historically Black,” The Washington Post Tumblr project, have touched…
The age of Trump largely exists because of a resurgent white racial identity – Eric D. Knowles and Linda R. Tropp / The New Republic
Many political commentators credit Donald Trump’s rise to white voters’ antipathy toward racial and ethnic minorities. However, we believe this focus on racial resentment obscures…
Clarence Thomas’s Twenty-Five Years Without Footprints – Jeffrey Toobin / The New Yorker
