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: New York Times
Dec 12, 2020
A new Israeli television series represents one of the nation's few high-profile examinations of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and examines the toll of trauma on veterans.
Source: Deadline
Dec 12, 2020
Charlie Pride was the first Black performer inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and is one of three Black members of the Grand Ole Opry.
Source: Deadline
Dec 12, 2020
The famed New York establishment may not survive the coronavirus pandemic.
Source: New York Post
Dec 12, 2020
The 84 year-old reptile will be stuffed and displayed in Moscow after traveling from Mississippi to Berlin and being gifted to Russia by British troops after the capture of Berlin in 1945.
Source: The Guardian
Dec 12, 2020
The MP, an advocate for Brexit and a harsh critic of Black Lives Matter protests, now faces criticism over the centrality of Caribbean slavery to his family's vast fortune.
Source: US News and World Report
Dec 12, 2020
The Mississippi home where civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in 1963 has been declared a national monument.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 11, 2020
Gloria Richardson remains a fierce advocate for racial justice and a proponent of disrupting the status quo decades after being photographed pushing aside a National Guardsman's bayonet during protests in Cambridge, Maryland.
Source: New York Times
Dec 11, 2020
The FBI announced that a Virginia software developer led a successful effort to solve a coded message created by the notorious Bay Area serial killer.
Source: USA Today
Dec 10, 2020
"Claiming 'the last thing we need is to further divide an already divided nation,' Lee blocked proposals to establish the National Museum of the American Latino and the American Women's History Museum."
Source: Nashville Scene
Dec 10, 2020
Musician and historian Tiffany Minton's new oral history project tackles the stereotype of the Nashville session musician – the backbone of the city's recording industry – as a white guy.
Source: New York Times
Dec 9, 2020
Locked-down Britons have unearthed many potentially valuable objects both modern and ancient, prompting consideration of expanding a law that would enable museums to claim such objects after compensating the finder.
Source: Hyperallergic
Dec 9, 2020
Artist Reggie Black is projecting a message about the history of slavery in New York City on the façade of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Manhattan, where six people were enslaved.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 9, 2020
Joe Biden will not enjoy the solid support from Catholic Americans that JFK did. But his presidency may force the Church into necessary consideration of its public priorities.
Source: Variety
Dec 9, 2020
While generally disapproved in polite company, swear words are a powerful and entrenched aspect of language around the world. Nic Cage will host a series examining their historical origins and use.
Source: Curbed
Dec 9, 2020
The current owners of the former Trump family home in Queens set up a GoFundMe to allow supporters to purchase the property at $3 million to give to Trump as a legacy project. So far it has raised $125.
Source: Smithsonian
Dec 8, 2020
This month, women war industry workers from the World War II era were collectively awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, an honor a dwindling number have survived to enjoy.
Source: Texas Observer
Dec 8, 2020
As with social studies, sex education in Texas has been subject to the control of social conservatives in positions of power in the state's educational establishment, demonstrating how the movement has shaped textbooks and curriculum for a generation. This may gradually be changing.
Source: Worcester (MA) Telegram and Gazette
Dec 7, 2020
A series of accidents allowed a P-40 fighter plane to survive the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; after crashing in service a month later, the plane lay on a Hawaiian mountainside until 1985, when it was restored to flight condition using parts from other planes. It is now an attraction at the American Heritage Museum in Hudson, Massachusetts.
Source: Baltimore Sun
Dec 7, 2020
The long-serving Marylander is remembered as a "Stealth Senator" who preferred effectiveness to publicity while championing financial regulation, investigating Watergate and Iran-Contra, and protecting the Chesapeake Bay.
Source: NPR
Dec 7, 2020
WWII veteran Robert Madison remembers both the segregation of the military and moments of recognition by white officers of his cohort's service.
