Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Thousands of Voters are Disenfranchised by North Carolina’s Voting Restrictions – Ari Berman / The Nation
Black Like Who? Rachel Dolezal’s Harmful Masquerade – Tamara Winfrey Harris / NYT
To Win Black Voters, Hillary Clinton Can’t Rely upon Hope and Change – Jamil Smith / The New Republic
Check Out A List of This Year’s American Black Film Festival Award Winners – Wilson Morales / Huff Post
Study illuminates why multiracial Americans almost never call themselves white – Jenee Desmond Harris / Vox
Just Mercy : A Story of Justice and Redemption – Bryan Stevenson
“Just Mercy is every bit as moving as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so. . . . [It] demonstrates, as powerfully…
Rachel Dolezal isn’t alone – my family history proves choosing a racial definition is hard – Bliss Broyard / The Guardian
A Half Century After “Mad Men” Era, Minorities Still Missing from Madison Avenue – Lincoln Stephens / Huff Post
Beyond the Chokehold: The Path to Eric Garner’s Death – Al Baker, J. David Goodman and Benjamin Mueller / NYT
White Panic, white denial: The racial prehistory of the McKinney pool party that white America can’t let go. – Andrew O’Hehir / Salon
We Must Make Police Brutality Against Black Women an Issue in 2016 – Kali Nicole Gross / The Root
Past Voices – Remarks by Dr. Benjamin E. Mays (1894-1984), President, Morehouse College, at 42nd Annual Convention of the NAACP, Atlanta, Ga. June 27, 1951
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, theologian, philosopher, educator, civil rights activist, and mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King discusses: “The Emerging New South in the Area of…
Nicola Lo Calzo’s Portraits of the African Diaspora – Hilton Als / The New Yorker
Black American’s Forgotten Film History – Brandon Harris / The New Republic
White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History – George M. Fredrickson
This is a seminal study which compares the development of white supremacy in Southern Africa and North America. It is well researched and provides the…
Kalief Browder Took His Own Life, but the System Murdered Him – Stephen A. Crockett Jr. / The Root
When Bail Is Out of Defendant’s Reach, Other Cost Mount – Shaila Dewan / NYT
Black Mexicans face considerable hurdles – Alexis Okeowo / Compton Herald
Black Deaths Matter – Edwin Rios with Kai Wright / Mother Jones
Who Gets to Go to the Pool ? – Brit Bennett / NYT
Past Voices – President Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973). Commencement Address at Howard University: “To Fulfill These Rights.” June 4, 1965
Introductory Comment “In far too many ways American Negroes have been another nation: deprived of freedom, crippled by hatred, the doors of opportunity closed to…
Every Serena Williams win comes with a side of disgusting racism and sexism – Jenee Desmond Harris – Vox
“Dinnertimin” and “No Tipping: How Advertisers Targeted Black Consumers in the 1970s – Lenika Cruz / The Atlantic
“We are in a revolutionary moment”: Chris Hedges explains why an uprising is coming – and soon – Elias Isquith / Salon
Why So Few of New York’s Finest Are Black – Ginger Adams Otis / The Atlantic
We’ll Need An Economic Program to Make #BlacklivesMatter: Here Are Three ideas – Jessie A. Myerson and Mychal Denzel Smith / The Nation
Black and White : The Way I See It – Richard Williams (Serena’s Dad)
He’d set his mind to raise two of the greatest women champions in professional tennis well before they could even hold a racket. The father…
Black Americans killed by police twice as likely to be unarmed as white people – Joe Swaine, Oliver Laughland, Jamiles Lartey / The Guardian
Obama’s true meaning of America – Greg Jaffe / Wash Post
Finding a Slave Ship, Uncovering History – The Editorial Board / NYT
Racism without Racist: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America – Eduardo Bonilla -Silva
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how beneath our contemporary conversation about race lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites…