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.
Source: Washington Post
7/16/2020
NASCAR did not provide official comment on the SCV’s action in June, but Steve O’Donnell, the stock-car racing organization’s executive vice president and chief racing development officer, called the perpetrator of the stunt “a jackass” at the time in a tweet.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
7/15/2020
The faculty union had proposed alternatives to the cuts, including deeper cuts in athletics and compensation, furloughs, and a more incremental budget-cutting approach, Schulze said.
Source: Baltimore Sun
7/15/2020
University of Texas athletes had demanded that the university cease to use the song, which has roots in racist minstrelsy and the words of Robert E. Lee, as an anthem.
Source: WTOP
7/13/2020
Monday’s announcement that the D.C. region’s football team would be abandoning the Redskins brand marks the end of a decadeslong push to shift the team away from the historically racist and oppressive term.
Source: NPR
7/11/2020
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court settled an important question about the function of the Electoral College that elects the U.S. president. But it did not address the pivotal question about the Electoral College.
Source: TIME
7/13/2020
The influence of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" on Black culture over more than a century has been immeasurable.
Source: Eater
7/10/2020
From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Black Lives Matter movement, Black women have made food a central part of protest.
Source: Washington Post
7/13/2020
The excavation at Oaklawn Cemetery, delayed for months by the pandemic, begins Monday morning.
Source: CNN
7/12/2020
If Trump goes on to lose in November, he doesn't just need to worry about losing to Biden. Trump needs to worry about the fact that the history books are probably going to put him down as a below average president, if not one of the worst.
Source: The Morning Call
7/9/2020
Last weekend, protestors in Allentown, PA demanded that the school district mandate a Black history curriculum.
Source: Washington Post
7/9/2020
The National Archives has made available online a trove of almost 6,000 Confederate government payroll records that account for money issued to hundreds of owners and others for the work of the enslaved.
Source: The New York Times
7/10/2020
High-end development has transformed some Black neighborhoods decades after they were scarred by unrest. And not by coincidence.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
7/8/2020
Genetic analysis of their modern descendants shows that people from the Pacific Islands and South America interacted long before Europeans arrived.
Source: The New York Times
7/9/2020
The center, in Mississippi, is named for a former senator who opposed civil rights legislation and the Supreme Court ruling that desegregated the nation’s public schools.
Source: FiveThirtyEight
7/8/2020
These monuments were installed as symbols of white supremacy during periods of U.S. history when Black Americans’ civil rights were aggressively under attack.
Source: The Intercept
7/4/2020
Reiner’s brother saw a small ad in the New York Daily News about free acting lessons being offered in lower Manhattan by the Works Progress Administration. Reiner had never contemplated acting before in his life, but his brother insisted, so he went.
Source: The New York Times
7/4/2020
The day after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Jane Elliott carried out the “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes” exercise in her classroom. Now, people are returning to her work.
Source: Washington Post
7/3/2020
Its origins extend back to the 18th century, long before it became the name of a football team.
Source: Washington Post
7/7/2020
Leslie T. Fenwick and Chike Akua discuss anti-racist curriculums and provide five ways that K-12 and higher education administrators, teachers and students can begin to educate themselves on this subject.
Source: Washington Post
7/6/2020
“More than it being defaced, I was really personally disgusted with what I heard from the people who did this,” said a resident of Martinez, California.
