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: NPR
Sep 23, 2020
Citigroup's recommendations aren't new: various studies have shown similar findings and experts have called for similar action for years, though so far progress has been slow.
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Sep 22, 2020
In June, leaders formally acknowledged the department’s past role in perpetuating racism and so-called “lost cause” ideals.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Sep 22, 2020
Adrian College planned to terminate history, philosophy, religion and more -- until graduates organized to stop it. Faculty members still don't understand why the programs were threatened.
Source: New York Times
Sep 22, 2020
The British historic preservation agency has begun to grapple with how to present the historic connections between properties it manages and fortunes built through slavery and colonialism.
Source: The Baffler
Sep 22, 2020
In 1993, soon after the fall of the Soviet Union, consensual same-sex relationships were decriminalized in Russia as the economy underwent a wrenching transition away from central planning. Documentarian William E. Jones documents this moment by splicing together the non-sexual scenes from gay pornography shot in the former Soviet bloc.
Source: New York Times
Sep 22, 2020
Law professors Lee Epstein and Eric Posner argue that the conservative bloc on the court has shifted from the libertarianism favored by big business to a more aggressive religious activism.
Source: New York Times
Sep 22, 2020
by Jamelle Bouie
The power of the courts to define the meaning of the Constitution has been challenged by legislative, executive and popular action at different times in American history. If that prospect seems scary, remember that it's the process that overthrew the Dred Scott decision as the law of the land, argues NYT columnist Jamelle Bouie.
Source: New York Times
Sep 21, 2020
The Trump administration has always engaged in rhetorical attacks on Ivy League institutions as elitist, but critics say launching a civil rights investigation of Princeton represents an effort to weaponize executive branch agencies to fight a culture war.
Source: The New Republic
Sep 21, 2020
Danielle Pletka’s historical revision of Jesse Helms’s career shows how Trumpists will rationalize their role in this disastrous presidency.
Source: The Nation
Sep 21, 2020
by Tom Scocca
Independent journalism has been in a decades-long death spiral because "the circulatory system of money that had made the writing possible was punctured and bleeding out, and draining into Silicon Valley."
Source: Inside Higher Education
Sep 21, 2020
The university's reopening plans were at the center of a narrow vote by the university's faculty to declare no confidence in President Mark Schlissel.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Sep 21, 2020
Some of the terminated faculty members had since chosen to retire, but the result means that the 67 who did not will not be able to return to their jobs.
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
Sep 21, 2020
by Brentin Mock
The real estate industry has adopted appraisal standards in response to fair housing laws that are, on the surface, race-neutral. But they don't account for the ways that racism has lowered the sale value in diverse neighborhoods, and still penalize Black and Latino homeowners.
Source: New York Times
Sep 21, 2020
by David Leonhardt
It's far from certain that Trump and the Republicans will get their way with Ruth Bader Ginsburg's replacement. There are ample examples of botched nominations before presidential transitions and confirmed nominees who didn't meet their party's ideological expectations.
Source: Bloomberg
Sep 20, 2020
This announcement continues a Trump tradition of claiming other nations will pay for domestic culture war projects.
Source: CBS News
Sep 20, 2020
A "60 Minutes" interview with former Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster paints a picture of weakened American leadership and confusion in foreign policy.
Source: National Geographic
Sep 20, 2020
The number of Supreme Court justices is a matter of legislation and custom, not a constitutional mandate. That number has changed across American history.
Source: Lakeland (FL) Ledger
Sep 20, 2020
Richard Harris and Kenneth Stephens committed to Christian demands for forgiveness and reconciliation, and have shared their personal stories in an effort to heal racial divisions.
Source: New York Times
Sep 20, 2020
Robert Graetz was a rare white voice in favor of desegregation and an ally to the organizers of the Montgomery bus boycott.
Source: The Grio
Sep 20, 2020
Sarah Collins Rudolph argues that the State of Alabama, in the person of Governor George Wallace, directly incited the racial hatred that led to the bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church.
