Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Protest Started by Colin Kaepernick Spreads to High School Students – Julie Turkewitz / NYT
Supreme Court, like the country, struggles with race – Joan Biskupic / CNN
The Widening Racial Wealth Divide – James Surowlecki / The New Yorker
A Mother’s Reflection on Her Black Son’s Death: ‘There’s Never Any Justice’ – Nadine Ajaka / The Atlantic Video
Mario Woods was shot more than 20 times by San Francisco police in December of 2015. Months after his death, his mother, Gwen Woods, is…
Questions Of Race And Charter Schools Divide Education Reformers – Anya Kamenetz / NPR
Trump appears to tell supporters to form roving voter intimidation squads – Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress
Now Is the Time to Express Solidarity With ‘Our Arab-American Brothers and Sisters’ – John Nichols / The Nation
Watch Living Colour Protest Gun Violence via Biggie Cover in New Video – Christopher R. Weingarten / Rolling Stone
Iconic hard-rock crew Living Colour have been making waves with their version of the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Who Shot Ya?” a cover of the classic 1995…
The many shapes of black space at D.C.’s African-American museum – Lonnae O’Neal / The Undefeated
Reid Congratulates GOP For Eight Years Obstructing The First Black President – Michael McAuliff / Huff Post
WASHINGTON — With Congress set to flee town until after the November elections, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) took to the Senate floor Thursday…
Big News! Joy Reid Brings Great Ratings To MSNBC – Frances Langum / Crooks and Liars
For Affirmative Action, Brazil Sets Up Controversial Boards To Determine Race – Lulu Garcia-Navarro / NPR
A Wide Gulf Persists Between Black And White Perceptions Of Policing – Sonari Glinton / NPR
I Won’t Be Silent’: Serena Williams on the Fear of Driving While Black – Christine Hauser / NYT
Clinton on fatal police shootings: ‘Protecting all of God’s children’ a duty – Associated Press / The Guardian
Why Asian-Americans Are Not a Model Minority – Simon Hedlin / The Harvard Crimson
When Whites Just Don’t Get It, Part 7 – Nicholas Kristof / NYT
I never worry I’ll be shot in Chicago. After all, I’m white – Edward McClelland / Wash Post
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “ENGROSSING AND RELENTLESS”—The Washington Post “AMBITIOUS, MAGISTERIAL” —Starred Kirkus Review “MUST FOR SERIOUS READERS” —Library Journal “HEAVILY RESEARCHED YET…
President Trump would reconstruct our racist past – Colbert I. King / Wash Post
How about we hold off on dancing in the end zone in celebration of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture? And…
The Philospher and Her Camera – Ava DuVernay – Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah / New Republic
Frequent Exposure to Shootings of Black People Can Cause PTSD-Like Trauma, Research Says – Tanasia Kenney / Atlanta Black Star
Hunger Strikes, Marches & Work Stoppages: Unprecedented National Prison Strike Enters Third Week – Democracy Now
The largest prison work strike in U.S. history has entered its third week. Organizers report that as of last week at least 20 prisons in…
Understanding the Legacy of the Attica Prison Uprising – Lewis M. Steel / The Nation
“Down goes Trump! Down goes Trump!”: Burdened by his basket of deplorables, Donald Trump was easily knocked out by Hillary Clinton – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Fear of a woman president: How the white backlash against Obama fueled Hillary hate and the rise of Trump – Heather Digby Parton / Salon
