Race Inquiry Digest (July 9) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – These young black women made desegregation possible. We need to learn from their example. Black students are provided with a military escort at…
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
America Started Over Once. Can We Do It Again? The Editorial Board / NYT
The fight against Trump is a battle for freedom – Dana Milbank / Wash Post
Abraham Lincoln’s Warning – Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic
Frederick Douglass and Donald Trump: Faint hope endures this Fourth of July – Chauncey Devega / Salon
When the Fourth of July Was a Black Holiday – Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts / The Atlantic
The Choice : Democracy or White Supremacy – Ronald J. Sheehy / Race Inquiry
The Choice : Democracy or White Supremacy! This dilemma is as old as the founding of America. The Declaration of Independence of 1776 set forth the ideals of a…
Race Inquiry Digest (July 5) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – The Choice : Democracy or White Supremacy! This dilemma is as old as the founding of America. The Declaration of Independence of 1776 set forth the ideals…
The Trump effect: New study connects white American intolerance and support for authoritarianism – Noah Berlatsky / NBCnews.com
What fuels “white anxiety”? The baffling hypocrisies behind white paranoia politics – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Ben Jealous Is Ready to Make Maryland America’s Laboratory of Democracy – John Nichols / The Nation
Is Neymar Black? Brazil and the Painful Relativity of Race – Cleuci de Oliveira / NYT
To Protect and Serve: How one American city chose to tackle crime, combat racism, and reckon with the legacy of police brutality – Ben Austen / The New Republic
Charleston’s apology for slavery is just empty symbolism – Stacey Patton / Wash Post
White Supremacists’ Use of Campus Propaganda Is Soaring, Report Finds – Julia Jacobs / NYT
New data shows US hate crimes continued to rise in 2017 – Brian Levin, James J. Nolan and John David Reitzel / The Conversation
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name stripped from children’s book award over ‘Little House’ depictions of Native Americans – Meagan Flynn / Wash Post
How to Hold On to Hope – Jonathan Foiles / Slate
Race Inquiry Digest (July 2) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – How to Hold On to Hope. This horrible week was particularly stressful for minorities. A therapist who works with patients experiencing profound injustice…
Slaves knew ‘the fearful anguish of broken hearts’. In Trump’s America, migrants do too – Daina Ramey Berry / The Guardian
How Latinos Are Shaping America’s Future – Hector Tobar / National Geographic
Mainstream media’s moral cowardice: Time for the Times (and everyone else) to stand against evil – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Why the N.F.L. and the N.B.A. Are So Far Apart on Social Justice Stances – John Branch / NYT
Return of the Blood Libel – Paul Krugman / NYT
DeVos Has Scuttled More Than 1,200 Civil Rights Probes Inherited From Obama – Annie Waldman / ProPublica
An Electoral Vision for Black Lives – Deva Woodly / Dissent
Small banks discriminate against people of color. A new law makes it worse – Jacob W. Faber and Terri Friedlline / Wash Post
