Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
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
A Hundred Years Later, “Birth of A Nation” Hasn’t Gone Away – Allison Hobbs / The New Yorker
Wake Up, Black People. The Supreme Court is Poised to Drop a Bomb on You – Charles D. Ellison / The Root
White Supremacist groups see Trump bump – Ben Schreckinger / Politico
Abigail Fisher, Please Stop Blaming People of Color for Your Mediocrity – Kwanzaa Imani / For Harriet
Where Justice Scalia got the idea that African Americans might be better off at ‘slower track’ universities -Yanan Wang / Wash Post
Past Voices – Dr. Kwame Ture’s (Stokely Carmichael) 1941 -1998, Last published Interview with Brian Lamb / CSPAN
Stokely Carmichael (June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998), also known as Kwame Turé, was a Trinidadian–American revolutionary active in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and…
Fisher V. University of Texas: The Future of Affirmative Action at Public Universities – Richard D. Kahlenberg / The Atlantic
On Capital Hill, the United States is a very, very white place – Janell Ross / Wash Post
The South won the Civil War: White men racial resentment, and how the Bitter Minority came to rule us all – Paul Rosenberg / Salon
The Cozy Bigotry of Donald Trump’s America – Alexandros Orphanides / Huff Post
A Conversation With Black Women on Race – Michele Stephenson and Joe Brewster / NYT Video
In this short documentary, Black women talk about the challenges they face in society. Watch the video here
150 Years of Freedom: Proposed Abolition Day – Allison Keyes / The Root
To fight racial isolation on campus, start with admissions – Sherrilyn Ifill / Wash Post
