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: The Guardian
Dec 9, 2021
In 1982, documentarian Nina Gladitz examined Reifenstahl's use of ethnic Roma concentration camp inmates as extras in a feature film, actions which demonstrated her knowledge of and complicity in atrocities. It cost her dearly, professionally and personally, over a decades-long pursuit of the truth.
Source: Smithsonian
Dec 9, 2021
"Every time I got to pull a bone out of the ground it literally felt like reaching through time. I was touching a bone that hadn’t been touched for a million and a half years — it was magical" – Briana Pobiner.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 8, 2021
“As a young African-American, I noticed other Black athletes from Africa, the Caribbean and South America, and I thought about their relationship to Afro-North Americans, and what were some of the important vehicles of communication between Black people in different parts of the Americas."
Source: WBUR
Dec 8, 2021
"During the 1950s, more than 220,000 operators were employed by the Bell System alone. Most were women who were expected to be courteous, quick-thinking and patient under pressure."
Source: AlterNet
Dec 8, 2021
"I think the idea that Democrats could get the support of white conservative voters by focusing on governing well, by emphasizing “pocketbook issues,” underestimates the depth of the ideological struggle that we are witnessing."
Source: WYPR
Dec 8, 2021
Belew discusses the impact of the Charlottesville civil lawsuit verdict, the ongoing prosecutions of Capitol rioters, and the ongoing problem of white supremacist, neo-Nazi and right-wing extremist organizations.
Source: The New Yorker
Dec 8, 2021
by Lauren Michele Jackson
"In spite of all of the ugly evidence it has assembled, the 1619 Project ultimately seeks to inspire faith in the American project, just as any conventional social-studies curriculum would."
Source: The Metropole
Dec 8, 2021
by Leo Valdes
Johanna Fernandez's history of the Puerto Rican activist organization reconstructs the movement's roots and shows that an organization formed in 1969 still offers a useful diagnosis of an "urban crisis" rooted in experiences in housing, schools, hospitals, and jails.
Source: Now & Then (Vox Media)
Dec 7, 2021
The early American press, the telegraph, and broadcast media have all been vectors of the kind of political disinformation we are plagued by today.
Source: The Nation
Dec 7, 2021
by Olúfémi O. Táíwò
The United Fruit Company secured the overthrow of Guatemala's government after it refused to pay what amounted to a ransom of more than $200 million in today's dollars.
Source: The New Republic
Dec 7, 2021
"Caro’s great subject—power—and his approach to journalism are as pertinent and vital here in the young years of this century as is the close, empathetic attention he pays toward those who become caught in the crosshairs of the powerful."
Source: New York Times
Dec 7, 2021
Historian Gerardo Cadava's research on Hispanic Republicans suggests that there is an enduring affinity for the conservative themes of work and initiative among Latino voters; addressing the desire for upward mobility in concrete ways, not tweaking their language, is the most urgent task facing Democrats.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 7, 2021
Nicole Hemmer explains to Post columnist Greg Sargent that Bannon represents an explicitly anti-democratic strain of nationalism that is separate from the political allegiance of many conservatives to Donald Trump.
Source: TIME
Dec 7, 2021
Rob Citino of the National World War II Museum addresses how Pearl Harbor has "lived in infamy" but not necessarily in accuracy.
Source: The New Yorker
Dec 6, 2021
by Pankaj Mishra
Taken at the moment of the Algerian fight for independence and other colonial liberation movements, "The Wretched of the Earth" was first seen as a beacon of liberatory thought. A new edition frames the ambivalences in Fanon's work on freedom.
Source: History.com
Dec 6, 2021
John J. Crittenden hoped that restoring the Missouri Compromise and other measures to stop slavery's expansion would prevent slaveholders from following through on threats to secede. Abraham Lincoln wasn't buying it.
Source: New York Times
Dec 6, 2021
Kara Swisher's "Sway" podcast features Rutger Bregman's defense of the human potential for good, and the need to create the social structures in which genius can thrive.
Source: Virginia Tech
Dec 6, 2021
"So much of what we know about the everyday experiences of Americans who served in the war comes from such sources as letters that were censored, memories recorded later, or films,” says historian Edward Gitre of the American Soldier in World War II Project.
Source: Inverse
Dec 5, 2021
"Space skews predominantly male, especially Apollo-era space history because that was the era when little boys growing up were being told, 'You can be an astronaut, too'!"
Source: Diverse Education
Dec 5, 2021
Dr. Thompson's research pushed academics to consider African art as art, and developed important theories of Black aesthetic traditions in multiple art forms throughout the African diaspora.
