Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
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…
Jesse Owens, a Film Hero Once Again – Salamishah Tillet / NYT
The Brazilian carnival queen deemed ‘too black’ – video – Barney Lankester et.al. / The Guardian
Nayara Justino thought her dreams had come true when she was selected as the Globeleza carnival queen in 2013 after a public vote on one…
Feature – The Misdiagnosis of Terrorism – Rev. Dr. William J. Barber / Riverside Church NY City
Dear Friends of Race Inquiry: Please take the time to listen to a speech delivered by Rev. William Barber at a Martin Luther King Day…
The Clintons’ War on Drugs: When Black Lives Didn’t Matter – Donna Murch / The New Republic
Stop Bernie-Splaining to Black Voters – Charles M. Blow / NYT
Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Voting for Bernie Sanders – Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote – Michelle Alexander / The Nation
Feature – White America’s ‘Broken Heart’ – Charles M. Blow / NYT
On Sunday, at the Corinthian Baptist Church in Des Moines, former President Bill Clinton, looking frail and sounding faint, stumped for his wife, working through…