Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Featured – What Roles Get Black Actors to the Oscars? Aaron Byrd, John Woo and Brandon K. Thorp / NYT Video
Here’s a look at roles performed by black artists who have been nominated for a best actress or best actor Oscar — and what they…
Ferguson Digs In Its Heels – Colin Gordon / Dissent
Black Workers Matter, Too – Sarah Anderson et.al. / The Nation
Courage, Compassion and Complexity – Lovelyn Nwadeyi / Stellenbosch University / You Tube
A speech delivered on January 26, 2016 at the annual meeting of the Stellenbosch University Convocation, a statutory body comprised of alumni and fulltime academic staff…
Scalia Devoted His Professional Life To Making America Less Fair, Less Tolerant – Jeffery Toobin / Huff Post
Muhammad Ali and the Black Panther Party – Dave Zirin / The Nation
The Crisis of Minority Unemployment – The Editorial Board / NYT
The Testament Project – Kris Graves
The Testament Project is an exploration and a re-conception of contemporary black American masculinity. Black men in America are portrayed in the extreme – either…
Kendrick Lamar Live @ The 2016 Grammy Awards / Slate
Separated by decades, Eldridge Cleaver’s, ‘Soul on Ice,’ and Kendrick lamar’s performance at the 2016 Gammy Awards share much in common. Watch the performance here, also see “Deconstructing…
Albert Woodfox speaks after 43 years in solitary confinement: ‘I would not let them drive me insane’ – Ed Pilkington / theguardian
Democracy in Black: 3 Writers Wrestle With President Obama’s Blackness – Todd Steven Burroughs / The Root
I sat beside Obama at the Black Lives Matter meeting. This was no political show – Brittany Packnett / theguardian
South Carolina’s Legacy, Exploited by Trump – Brent Staples / NYT
Featured – Emmett Till and Tamir Rice, Sons of the Great Migration – Isabel Wilkerson / NYT
Vermont’s Black Leaders: We Were ‘Invisible’ to Bernie Sanders – David Freedlander / The Daily Beast
Where to Invade Next – Michael Moore Documentary/ Official Trailer
Dear Friends of Race Inquiry: Do not miss this important movie. Ronald John Sheehy “Anyone who travels abroad a lot inevitably reflects that, due to…
Fighting a Black ‘Genocide’ in Brazil – Kiratiana Freelon / The Root
A Concrete Plan to Make Black Lives Matter – Mychal Denzel Smith / The Nation
Commission to Recognize 400 years of African American History / Press Release
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. By turns shocking…
Fifty years later, America still can’t understand the Black Panthers – Alyssa Rosenberg / Wash Post
What Antonin Scalia’s Death Means for the Supreme Court and the Country – David S. Cohen / Rolling Stone
The year of ‘enormous rage’: Number of hate groups rose by 14 percent in 2015 – Niraj Chokshi / Wash Post
SNL Captures White Peoples Response to Beyonce’s Super Bowl Performance / Video
” The Day Beyoncé Turned Black” Watch the Video here
Thomas Piketty on the rise of Bernie Sanders: The US enters a new political era / theGuardian
Jack Johnson, world’s first black boxing champion, was jailed under Jim Crow. Will he get a posthumous pardon? Sarah Kaplan / Wash Post
In Defense of Beyoncé’s Black Panther Tribute at the Super Bowl – Dave Zirin / The Nation
This New Film Will Change the Way You Think About the Black Panthers – Edwin Ross / Mother Jones
Featured – Earth, Wind & Fire’s Musical Reintegration – Roger Thompson / NYT
Past Voices – Hubert Harrison (1883 -1927) A Pioneering African – American Radical
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the Color Line. But what is the Color Line? It is the practice of the…
