Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Read the letter Coretta Scott King wrote opposing Sessions’s 1986 federal nomination – Wesley Lowery / Wash Post
Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., urged Congress in a letter to block the 1986 nomination of Jeff Sessions…
In Search of the Slave Who Defied George Washington – Jennifer Schulessler / NYT
MOUNT VERNON, Va. — The costumed characters at George Washington’s gracious estate here are used to handling all manner of awkward queries, whether about 18th-century…
These Families Wanted ‘Hugs Not Walls’ As They Reunited At The Border – Carolina Moreno / Huff Post
Teaching Southern and Black History Under Trump – Charles Bethea / The New Yorker
Black Women Face Devastating Losses If Obamacare Is Repealed – Julia Craven / Huff Post
Bianca Adams worked part-time jobs as a spa professional, sometimes juggling two or three at a time, for years. But none of them offered her…
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post • Bustle • Men’s Journal • The…
Coach Bob Douglas and his New York Rens changed how basketball was played – Daryl Bell / The Undefeated
Trump’s top adviser believes we’re at the “very beginning stages of a global conflict.” – Tom McCarthy / The Guardian
Trump is setting us free:’ White supremacists celebrate reports that Trump will dial down scrutiny – Laurel Raymond and Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress
Online neo-Nazi and white supremacist forums have been unmistakably jubilant lately, as web chatter moved from celebrating President Donald Trump’s electoral victory to celebrating individual…
Boston Defies Trump on Immigrants the Way the City’s Abolitionists Once Fought Slavers – Kevin M. Levin / The Daily Beast
In a press conference at City Hall last month, surrounded by elected officials and black, Latino, and Asian staff members, Boston’s Mayor Marty Walsh delivered…
A Lesson in Black History ( Donald Trump and Frederick Douglass) – Charles M. Blow / NYT
Last week at a supposed Black History Month “listening session” at the White House, Donald Trump made this baffling statement: “I am very proud now…
Secret Service agrees to pay $24 million in decades-old race-bias case brought by black agents – Carol D. Leoning / Wash Post
The Secret Service agreed Tuesday to pay $24 million to settle a two-decade-old case in which more than 100 black agents alleged that the agency fostered…
Why Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’ Is a Gift to Real Terrorists – Ali Olomi / Alternet
The Misunderstood Genius of Russell Westbrook – San Anderson / NYT
Are Charter Schools Good or Bad for Black Students? Graham Vyse / New Republic
Black History Month began Wednesday, and this year’s theme is “The Crisis in Black Education.” According to the Association for the Study of African American…
Inside the Trial of Dylann Roof : The complicated moral calculation that followed a horrific crime – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
The Fugitive Slave Act galvanized the abolitionist movement. Trump’s Muslim ban could do the same for a new resistance – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
Trump Says Our Schools Are “Flush with Cash!?” They’re Falling Apart! – Steven Singer / Bill Moyers & Co.
What connects attacks in Québec and Charleston? Trump needs to know – Richard Wolffe / The Guardian
One of them shot and stabbed to death Jo Cox. Another massacred nine churchgoers in Charleston. Then six Canadians were gunned down at evening prayers…
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist…
There’s Halftime. Then There’s ‘Showtime.’ Welcome to the Battle of the Bands – Tamara Best / NYT
FBI investigated white supremacists infiltrating law enforcement agencies: Report – Charlie May / Salon
Rev. Barber: These times require a new language and a new fusion coalition / ThinkProgress
The following is an edited version of remarks delivered by Rev. William Barber, II at the Democratic National Committee Future Forum on January 27 in…
“You can’t coddle white brothers and sisters”: The fiery racial gospel of Michael Eric Dyson – David Masciotra / Salon
The Matter of Marcus Allen : OJ’s arrest broke up the BFFs, but why? Jason Reid / The Undefeated
Back in 1994, we still thought they were as close as brothers. With O.J. Simpson and Marcus Allen, you have to start there. Both were…
John Edgar Wideman’s new book on the unsettling case of Emmitt Till’s father – Thomas Chatterton Williams / NYT
Watch : Angela Davis on Resisting Trump: We Need to Be More Militant in Defending Vulnerable Populations / Democracy Now
Watch the full speech by Angela Davis at the Women’s March on Washington. “Over the next months and years, we will be called upon to…