ESPYs: NBA Stars Say ‘Shoot-to-Kill Mentality Has to Stop’ – Elias Leight / Rolling Stone
Lebron James, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade call for action to stop gun violence. Watch the video here.
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Fears in Baton Rouge underscore growing racial tension across US – Jon Swaine / The Guardian
What if Black Males Profiled White C.O.P.S? – Bryant T. Marks
Many of us woke up the other morning with one and/or two questions: how could a black male get to the point where he shoots twelve police officers,…
Watch: a Republican senator’s personal speech on his experience with police as a black man – German Lopez / Vox
A common response to the outcry over police misconduct is to almost immediately blame the victim – he had a criminal record, he didn’t listen…
Segregation in Paradise? Minnesota’s Twin Cities – Alana Samuels / The Atlantic
The Singular Trauma Of A Child Who Loses A Parent To A Police Shooting – Alex Zielinski / Think Progress
Police Shootings, Race, and the Fear Defense – Benjamin Wallace-Wells / The New Yorker
The Near Certainty of Anti-Police Violence – Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic
By ignoring illegitimate policing, America has also failed to address the danger this illegitimacy poses to those who must do the policing. Read more
At service for Dallas officers, Obama confesses frustrations as he calls for unity – Greg Jaffe and Jullet Ellperin / Wash Post
‘Graceful in the lion’s den’: Photo of young woman’s arrest in Baton Rouge becomes powerful symbol – Michael E. Miller / Wash Post
The Second Amendment was ratified to preserve slavery – Thom Hartmann / Alternet
Police Shootings Highlight Unease Among Black Gun Owners – John Eligon and Frances Robles / NYT
White America’s biggest nightmare: Black men who violently sow disillusionment – Kevin B. Blackistone / Wash Post
Carmelo Anthony Issues A Powerful Plea To Fellow Athletes In The Wake Of Violence – Lindsay Gibbs / Think Progress
I’m a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing – Redditt Hudson / Vox
Following Horrific Violence, Something More is Required of Us – Michelle Alexander / Moyers & Co
Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Our Crisis of Racial Justice – A Discussion with Bill Moyers
Bill speaks with scholar Khalil Gibran Muhammad about white supremacy in America and the power of what Martin Luther King, Jr. called the “unarmed truth.”…
Past Voices – The Destiny of the People of Color by James McCune Smith (1813-1865)
The Destiny of the People of Color, is part of a larger collection of the works of James McCune Smith, black intellectual and abolitionist, edited…
Face the truth on police shootings – Stephen Henderson / USA Today
Death in Black and White (What White America Fails to See) – Michael Eric Dyson / NYT
We, black America, are a nation of nearly 40 million souls inside a nation of more than 320 million people. And I fear now that…
Divided by Race, United by Pain – Frank Bruni /NYT
Police have killed at least 2,611 people since Ferguson – German Lopez / Vox
Alton Sterling, Freddie Gray, and Jessica Hernandez are just three of at least 2,611 people killed by police since August 9, 2014, the day of…
What Everyone Should Know About Ronnie Shumpert, Killed By Police In Unfathomably Brutal Fashion – Kira Lerner / Think Progress
The Challenge of Keeping Black Families From Leaving the Midwest – Alexia Fernandez Campbell / The Atlantic
Alton Sterling, Father of Five—One More Black Man Shot Down by American Police – Goldie Taylor / The Daily Beast
Did a Fear of Slave Revolts Drive American Independence? Robert G. Parkinson / NYT
Our Recommended List of Books Bearing on Race. Race Inquiry Staff
As has been poignantly said by many social observers and scholars, race is an integral part of America’s DNA. Below are some of what we…
