Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Bridging black and white: How St. Louis residents are trying to surmount racial inequities post-Ferguson – Christa Case Bryant / CS Monitor
The Supreme Court’s Quiet Assault on Civil Rights – Lynn Adelman / Dissent
The NFL Chose to Tank Its Season Rather Than Sign Colin Kaepernick – Dave Zirin / The Nation
White voters are moving to the South — and making it more Democratic – Denny Hayes / Wash Post
Florida may restore voting rights to 1.7 million ex-felons: So long, Republicans! Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Federal judge green-lights desegregation housing rule after Carson tries to block it – Amanda Michelle Gomez / ThinkProgress
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan and the American Political Tradition By Linda Gordon
4 Reasons for a surprising change in racial incarceration trendlines – Phillip Smith / Salon via Alternet
Race Inquiry Digest (January 1) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests ? Trump’s first year in office revived an age-old debate about why…
The Next Financial Crisis Will Be Worse Than the Last One – Nomi Prins / Truthdig via Alternet
Will America Ever Really Trust Black Women? Mychal Denzel Smith / New Republic
The Rise and Fall of the Racist Right – Vegas Tenold / New Republic
The show was supposed to bring black and white students together. It almost tore them apart – Robert Samuels / Wash Post
S. Allen Counter : Harvard neurophysiologist, explorer, ethnographer, social-justice advocate – Michael Paterniti / NYT
How the news media distorts black families – Nicole Rodgers and Rashad Robinson / Wash Post
Arizona Can’t Ban Mexican-American Studies Anymore, Judge Says – Roque Planas / HuffPost
Sessions Says to Courts: Go Ahead, Jail People Because They’re Poor – Chiraag Bains / NYT
Watch – The 5 best hip-hop albums of 2017 – Rachel Leah / Salon
Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests? Joshua Zeitz / Politico
Race Inquiry Digest (December 28) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Dr. King’s Interconnected World. Fifty years ago Sunday — Christmas Eve 1967 — the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in his…
Pot Legalization Is Transforming California’s Criminal Justice Landscape. Here’s How – Brandon E. Patterson / Mother Jones
The opioid epidemic has now reached black America – German Lopez / Vox
The Trump-Less Kennedy Center Honors – Sarah Ruhl / NYT
William Barber II: Trump’s Terrible Choice for Judge – William Barber II / NYT
24 Of The Most Thought-Provoking Pieces Of Writing By People Of Color In 2017 – Zeba Bay / HuffPost
Dave Chappelle has a message for ‘poor white’ Trump supporters – Eugene Scott / Wash Post
