Breaking News

This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in each source note. Quotation marks are not used.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  9/19/19
  

  Trump administration says joint UNC, Duke Middle East Studies program portrays Islam too positively

  The Trump administration is pressuring the University of North Carolina and Duke University to revise their joint Middle East studies program or risk federal funding.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  9/12/19
  

  What White Kids Learn About Race in School

  by Eric Loomis

  Sixty-five years after Brown v. Board of Education, U.S. schools remain largely segregated. 

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• SOURCE: Washigton Post
  9/18/19
  

  Frederick Douglass photos smashed stereotypes. Could Elizabeth Warren selfies do the same?

  Douglass sat for scores of pictures to normalize the idea of black excellence and equality, and Warren’s thousands of selfies with supporters could do the same for a female president.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/17/19
  

  Chronicling New York’s Muslim History

  Tours through Harlem and Wall Street, along with a new exhibition in Brooklyn, tell all-but-forgotten stories.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/19/19
  

  New Documents Illuminate The University of Texas’s Secret Strategy to Keep Out Black Students

  by Asher Price

  Long-hidden documents show the school’s blueprint for slowing integration during the civil-rights era.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/17/19
  

  Citizenship Day Used to Be Called 'I Am an American Day.' Here's How It Came to Be—and Why It Changed

  Long before Citizenship Day was made official, there was “I Am An American Day.” Its initial conception was a sign of its times, and its evolution has been significant too.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  9/17/19
  

  The 1936 Strike That Brought America’s Most Powerful Automaker to its Knees

  The historical precedent to this week's GM United Auto Workers union strike. 

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• SOURCE: Real Clear Investigations
  9/17/19
  

  The Ethnic Studies Movement Is Making Big Inroads in America's High Schools

  Teachers around the country are already offering ethnic studies classes, units or lessons on their own initiative, citing a growing urgency to confront racism, sexism, homophobia and other entrenched social inequalities.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/16/19
  

  Samuel Chase: The one Supreme Court justice who has ever been impeached

  The Senate Historical Office offers insight into the only Supreme Court Justice impeachment in U.S. History. 

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• SOURCE: Wbur.org
  September 12, 2019
  

  Maryland Commission Sets Out To Investigate State's Lynching History

  by Robin Young and Allison Hagan

  A Maryland commission empowered to investigate at least 40 lynchings that occurred between 1854 and 1933 will have its public launch Thursday night.

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  9/17/19
  

  How Joe Biden has Historically Played a Role in Mass Incarceration in the United States

  by David Stein

  The Intercept reveals the untold story of how Joe Biden pushed Ronald Reagan to ramp up incarceration — not the other way around.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  9/16/19
  

  Crazy Horse Monument to Native American History is Built on Controversy

  The world’s largest monument is decades in the making and more than a little controversial.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  September 15, 2019
  

  William F. Buckley Jr. vs. James Baldwin: A racial showdown on the American dream

  Hundreds of thousands of people have watched the riveting 1965 debate between the two writers — one white, the other black — on YouTube.  

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• SOURCE: History.com
  9/16/19
  

  Solid Gold Toilet Stolen From Winston Churchill's Family Palace

  The 18-karat gold toilet disappeared from Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill, on September 14 - only two days after the palace installed it as part of an art exhibition by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/13/19
  

  Influential Civil Rights Advocate Juanita Abernathy Dies at 88

  by Chevel Johnson

  Juanita Abernathy, who wrote the business plan for the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and took other influential steps in helping to build the American civil rights movement, has died. 

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  9/13/19
  

  The Violence Against Women Act Was Signed 25 Years Ago. Here's How the Law Changed American Culture.

  Joe Biden’s “proudest” legislation during his time in the Senate left an imprint on modern women’s rights discussion.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonianmag.com
  9/10/11
  

  Hurricane Dorian Unearths Civil War Cannonballs at South Carolina Beach

  At first, the couple who discovered the pair of cannonballs thought they’d simply stumbled upon a rock.

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• SOURCE: LA Times
  9/10/11
  

  Ms. Monopoly is here. Psst: A woman invented the game in the first place

  The Monopoly game was the brainchild of a woman named Lizzie Magie at the turn of the 20th century.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/10/19
  

  9/11 Is History Now. Here's How American Kids Are Learning About It in Class

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  Textbooks are not the go-to resource for learning about 9/11 in 2019.  

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  9/10/19
  

  Why Don't We Consider Cannabis Part of the American Herbal Renaissance

  by Nick Johnson

  From pill bottles to produce sections, modern medicine and agriculture have effectively distanced our relationship to the plants that matter most to us.