Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Danny Glover & Larry Hamm on Black Lives Matter, Police Killings & How to Stop Donald Trump / Democracy Now
In New Jersey, lawmakers have recently introduced legislation that would require the state’s attorney general to review every death at the hands of law enforcement….
Black women are heroes in Rio. But they’re not just fighting to win gold – Joy-Ann Reid / Wash Post
The Legacy of Lynching, on Death Row – Jeffrey Toobin / The New Yorker
In Alabama, Bryan Stevenson is saving inmates from execution and memorializing the darkest episodes of America’s past. In 1989, a twenty-nine-year-old African-American civil-rights lawyer named…
The Breitbart alt-right just took over the GOP – Ben Shapiro / Wash Post
“This man is the most dangerous political operative in America. Steve Bannon runs the new vast right-wing conspiracy – and wants to take down Hillary…
A look inside the training the White House thinks could stop the police shooting, protest, damning DOJ report cycle – Janell Ross / Wash Post
So Much For Dog Whistles. Trump Has Now Fully Embraced White Nationalists – Laurel Raymond / ThinkProgress
Son of Chicago cop, home from college to surprise his sick mom, killed in ‘mistaken identity’ shooting – Katie Mattler / Wash Post
What I Told My White Friend When He Asked For My Black Opinion On White Privilege – Lori Lakin Hutcherson / Huff Post
Why Blacks Loathe Trump – Charles M. Blow / NYT
So now Donald Trump is campaigning for the black vote. (Long, awkward pause.) Like so much of what Trump has said and done, this new…
White Noise in the ‘Conversation’ About Race – Donovan X. Ramsey / Salon
“Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination by Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf
A groundbreaking work of history that explicates Thomas Jefferson’s vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery, and race. Thomas Jefferson is often portrayed as…
No compromises, no regrets – Larry Wilmore and the price of “Keeping it 100″ – Melanie McFarland / Salon
The Easiest Way to Get Rid of Racism? Just Redefine It – Greg Howard / NYT
On its face, inviting a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan onto your radio show is a risky proposition with very little upside….
Milwaukee’s staggering black-white economic divide – Tanzina Vega / CNN
The ongoing protests and violence that have occurred over the past several days in Milwaukee are about more than the police killing of Sylville Smith….
A Nation of Second Chances : President Obama’s Record on Clemency / The White House
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Latinos and the New American Majority – Manuel Pastor / Dissent
Past Voices – A tribute to Ethel Payne and the history of the black press – Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
When Hillary Clinton addressed the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists on August 5, 2016 in Washington, D.C., she…
The Racial Politics of Track and Field – Matthew Pratt Guterl / New Republic
Simone Manuel’s Olympic Win Is Huge Considering Swimming’s Racist Past – Zeba Blay / Huff Post
Donald Trump Is Making America Meaner – Nicholas Kristof / NYT
How Donald Trump’s bizarre voter-watch effort could get the GOP in trouble – Philip Bump / Wash Post
Echoes of Jim Crow for Sparta Voters in Georgia – The Editorial Board / NYT
The disastrous Supreme Court ruling that crippled the Voting Rights Act three years ago has emboldened aggressive new attempts at voter suppression by local officials…
The Real Olympic Challenge for American Basketball – Robert O’Connell / The Atlantic
Obama on Feminism: ‘When Everybody Is Equal, We Are All More Free’ – Jon Blistein / Rolling Stone
The Essentials of Brazilian Music for Olympic Listening – Jon Pareles et. al. / NYT
Ripping the Veil : Slave narratives have always been popular—and predictable. Can a new generation rewrite the rules? Brit Bennett / New Republic
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice”: How 18 Black Olympians Defied Jim Crow & Hitler in 1936 / Democracy Now
In Brazil, the U.S. women’s gymnastics team has pulled off a historic feat, winning the team gold medal by the widest margin of victory since…
John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America” – Philip Eil / Salon
Rio 2016: Simone Biles is unlike any gymnast we’ve ever seen – Alex Abad-Santos / Vox
The Horror of the Baltimore Police Department – David A. Graham / The Atlantic
John Lewis Talks to David Remnick About Nonviolent Activism / The New Yorker
As a child, Congressman John Lewis, the son of sharecroppers from Pike County, Alabama, was turned away from his local public library—it was for whites…