Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
“Talking About History Is Way We Liberate America”: New Memorial Honors Victims of White Supremacy – Bryan Stevenson / Democracy Now
Race Inquiry Digest (April 30) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Watching Cosby Fall (Victim or Victimizer). On Thursday, Mr. Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Ms. Constand. To…
The US government should cede territory back to Native Americans – Timothy Snyder / The Guardian
James H. Cone, Founder Of Black Liberation Theology, Dies At 79 – Rebecca Feldhaus Adams / NPR
They thought Georgetown University’s missing slaves were ‘lost.’ The truth was closer to home than anyone knew – Terrence McCoy / Wash Post
Ida B. Wells and the Lynching of Black Women – Crystal N. Feimster / NYT
Lynching memorial leaves some quietly seething: ‘Let sleeping dogs lie’ – Sam Levin / The Guardian
The poor don’t have a prayer in today’s Washington – Dana Milbank / Wash Post
The Promise and the Dream – The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr, and Robert Kennedy by David Margolick ( A Review)
HUD Secretary Ben Carson to propose raising rent for low-income Americans receiving federal housing subsidies – Tracy Jan, Caitlin Dewey and Jeff Stein / Wash Post
Inside the Confidential N.F.L. Meeting to Discuss National Anthem Protests – Ken Belson and Mark Leibovich / NYT
Watching Cosby Fall (Victim or Victimizer) – Jasmine Sanders / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (April 26) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opens Thursday…
Where Can We Be Black? Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
The Last Poets, Rap Forefathers, Talk Black Lives Matter, Playing Basketball With Wu-Tang – Mosi Reeves / Rolling Stone
Confederate Memorial Day: when multiple states celebrate treason in defense of slavery – Jane Coaston / Vox
Race and football: why NFL owners are so scared of Colin Kaepernick – Sean Illing / Vox
The Selfless Servant Leadership of the African-American Women of the Civil-Rights Movement – Janet Dewart Bell / The Nation
The disparities in how black and white men die in gun violence, state by state – Jacqueline Howard / CNN
Listen – How America’s White Power Movement Coalesced After The Vietnam War – Terry Gross / NPR
New Federal Data Shows How Black Students Are Getting Pushed Out Of School – Rebecca Klein / HuffPost
The Strong and Stressed Black Woman – Inger E. Burnett-Zeigler / NYT
A Lynching Memorial. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It – Campbell Robertson / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (April 23) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – How Alabama could become ‘Ground Zero’ in renewed battle over Confederate symbols. Two competing narratives of the Civil War and the Southern Reconstruction…
When Calling the Police Is a Privilege – Adam Harris / The Atlantic
When white colleges make black students’ worlds smaller instead of bigger – Cassandra Jackson / Wash Post
