Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
‘Concussion’ and the Serious Impact of Repeated Head Trauma – ABC News / You tube
I hear more parents telling me they won’t let their kids play until high school,” said Dustin Fink, an Illinois athletic trainer who blogs about…
It’s been devastating: Former NFL players count the cost of concussions – Rory Carroll / The Guardian
December 25, 1865: The Ku Klux Klan is Formed – Richard Kreitner / The Nation
We Have Lincoln Wrong : Our Greatest Lincoln Historian Explains – Harold Holzer and Norton Garfinkle / Salon
A disproportionate number of black victims in fatal traffic stops – Wesley Lowery / Wash Post
Choose Your Own Identity – Bonnie Tsui / NYT
Yellowface and racism against Asians is just as important as other prejudice – Carmen Fishwick / The Guardian
The New Attack on Hispanic Voting Rights – Jim Rutenberg / NYT
The Real Reason Sandra Bland Got Locked Up – Debbie Nathan / Salon
The thought of a white man in my chimney does not delight me – Kathleen Furin / Salon
Steph Curry, Fellow NBA Stars Call For End to Gun Violence – Marina Fang / Huff Post
The African American Newspaper (Voices of Freedom) – Patrick S. Washburn
In March of 1827 the nation’s first black newspaper appeared in New York City–to counter attacks on blacks by the city’s other papers. From this…
Rhetoric About Effects of Campus Carry on Minorities Mis-placed – Antonia Okafu / My Statesman / UT-Austin
Past Voices – Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
Marvin Gaye wrote “What’s Going On” to describe conditions in the 1960s and 70s. His words are just as relevant today. Happy Holidays. Listen here
CTE, The Obscure Brain Disease That Could End the NFL Gets the Hollywood Treatment – Lindsay Gibbs / Thinkprogress
In a Galaxy Far, Far Away From Comic Book Bigotry, Black and Queer Heroes Rule – Miles E. Johnson / Mother Jones
What I Learned This Semester at Yale (Students of Color are not Separatist…) – Daniel Judt / The Nation
Why It Matters That Serena Williams is on the Cover of Sports Illustrated – Michelle Garcia / Vox
Confederate Monuments Will Come Down in New Orleans – Kevin M. Levin / The Atlantic
Goose Steppers in the GOP – Timothy Egan / NYT
Chi-Raq – Spike Lee’s New Movie / Official Trailer
The girlfriend (Teyonah Parris) of a Chicago gang leader (Nick Cannon) persuades other frustrated women to abstain from sex until their men agree to end…
How Diversity Destroyed Affirmative Action – Sigal Alon / The Nation
White guys are killing us: Toxic, cowardly masculinity, our unhealable national illness – Chauncey Devega / Salon
What Israel Tells Us About Affirmative Action and Race – Sigal Alon / NYT
Islamophobia and Black American Muslims – Margari Hill / Huff Post
What social science tells us about racism in the Republican Party – Max Ehrenfreund / Wash Post
Kwame Ture’s (Stokely Carmichael) last fire side chat from the Meeca – Howard University / You Tube
Watch the video here. To my Howard family and African family of strugglers worldwide. I had the honor of being selected by my student peers…
Why Are So Many Black Women Dying of Aids – Laurie Shrage / NYT
Extremism ends in civil war: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and a right wing insurgency the GOP can no longer control – Heather Cox Richardson / Salon
13 black women on how an Oklahoma city police officer terrorized their neighborhood – Michelle Garcia / Vox
