Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
“Swinging While I’m Singing”: Spike Lee, Public Enemy, and the Message in the Music. By Mark Anthony Neal / AAIHS
Afro-Textured hair : Everything you ever wanted to know about Afro-textured hair. By Wikipedia.
Race Inquiry Digest (July 1) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Trump remains dominant among white voters — Democrats can’t afford to be complacent. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Reparations: Reasonable and Right. By Charles Blow / NYT
Here’s What Ta-Nehisi Coates Told Congress About Reparations. By The New York Times
How reparations for American descendants of slavery could narrow the racial wealth divide. By William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen / NBC News
Juneteenth: Freedom’s promise is still denied to thousands of blacks unable to make bail. By Matthew Larson / The Conversation
This Death Row Lawyer Says Americans Won’t Be Free Until We Face Our Racist History. By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost
Black People’s Land Was Stolen. By Andrew W. Kahri / NYT
Reparations economics 101. By Bob Hennelly / Salon
Mitch McConnell is the second worst human being on the planet. By Lucian K. Truscott IV / Salon
Psychologist John Gartner: “Two years ago I compared Trump to Hitler. People didn’t believe me.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Clarence Thomas’s Astonishing Opinion on a Racist Mississippi Prosecutor. By Jeffrey Toobin / The New Yorker
Joe Biden’s Racial Dog Whistle. By Matt Ford / The New Republic
Politics Shape The Debate Over What To Call Far-Right Extremism. By Hannah Allam / NPR
72 Philadelphia Police Officers Placed On Desk Duty Over Offensive Social Media Posts. By Bobby Allyn / NPR
Joy Harjo named first Native American poet laureate. By Alex Johnson / NBC News
Review: The Wrenching ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ Becomes an Opera. By Anthony Tommasini / NYT
Toni Morrison doc filmmaker on her banned books: “People are afraid … of powerful black women” By Gary M. Kramer / Salon
The N.B.A.’s Draft Show Goes On, With Style — Even if It Shouldn’t. By Wesley Morris / NYT
Richard Wright discovers Joe Louis’ dynamite. By Randy Roberts / The Undefeated
Race Inquiry Digest (June 27) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Afro-Textured hair : Everything you ever wanted to know about Afro-textured hair. By Wikipedia.
It’s Juneteenth, and a White Nationalist Is President. By Barrett Holmes Pitner / Daily Beast
Jesse Jackson on Reparations: ‘We Are Due a Different Kind of Recognition.’ By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
Why the racial wealth gap persists, more than 150 years after emancipation. By Calvin Schermerhorn / Wash Post
Mitch McConnell says America made up for slavery by electing Barack Obama. By Luke Barnes / ThinkProgress
