Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
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
December 6, 1865 : The Thirteenth Amendment Prohibiting Slavery is Ratified – Richard Kreitner / The Nation
America Needs a National Slavery Monument – Blair Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle / NYT
Gun Violence is America’s cardinal sin: Why we won’t do anything about a raging epidemic – Eesha Pandit / Salon
The Cross of Redemption : Uncollected Writings – James Baldwin
The Cross of Redemption is a revelation by an American literary master: a gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews that have never before…
The Neuroscience Behind Why White Cops Kill Black Men – Bobby Azarian / Raw Story
Students’ Protest May Play role in Supreme Court Case on Race in Admissions – Adam Liptak / NYT
How to Understand White Male Terrorism – Max Berger / The Nation
