Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
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
This Girl Was Bullied For Her Skin Color. Now She’s A Badass Model – Cavan Sieczkowski / Huff Post
Segregation Begins in Pre-K – Michelle Chen / The Nation
Red Lines, Black Lives – How Housing Discrimination Created Inequality – Colin Gordon / Dissent
When Ta-Nehisi Coates’s made his influential “Case for Reparations” in the pages of the Atlantic in 2014, his focus, perhaps surprisingly, was not on slavery….
Indiana officials are trying to block almost 45,000 black citizens from voting – Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress
Harvard university has the largest endowment in the United States, but workers said they couldn’t pay basic living expenses – Emily Deruy / The Atlantic
In one corner of the law, minorities and women are often valued less – Kim Soffen / Wash Post
Donald Trump’s new Confederacy: At Gettysburg, he tried to evoke Lincoln’s address but ended reprising Pickett’s Charge – Chauncey Devega / Salon
The Most Astute Analysis of American Politics in 2016? SNL’s “Black Jeopardy!” Sketch. – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
Nat Turner – American Hero or Terrorist? – Village-Connect / You Tube Video – And a Discussion at Suffolk University by Three Documentary Filmmakers.
What are the distinctions between a freedom fighter and a terrorist? The debate over the meaning of Nat Turner’s slave rebellion has been at the…
Jorge Ramos Exposes Hate Groups’ Rise In The Age Of Trump – Carolina Moreno / Huff Post
WATCH: Killing the Trump within: White dudes, it’s time to summon your inner Skywalker! Baynard Woods / Salon
Every man — especially every white man — can identify with Trump’s misdeeds more than we’d like to admit . Remember that scene in “The…
Moonlight: Barry Jenkins’s beautiful, sympathetic film is one of the best of the year – Bill Leitch / New Republic
Here’s how to fight Trump’s ballot bullies – Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Then: “The extension of the franchise to black citizens was strongly resisted. Among others, the Ku Klux Klan . . . attempted to prevent the 15th Amendment…
5 Intriguing NBA Season Storylines That Don’t Involve Golden State, Cleveland – Steve McPherson / Rolling Stone
Singer Aaron Neville’s Rough Road to Salvation – Jacob Blickenstaff / Mother Jones
Poor white Americans’ current crisis shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country as off guard as it has – Alec Macgillis and Propublica / The Atlantic
Sometime during the past few years, the country started talking differently about white Americans of modest means. Early in the Obama era, the ennobling language…