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: Smithsonian
Aug 18, 2020
Fannie Lou Hamer suffered unspeakable violence and intimidation at the hands of white supremacists and police to demand the right to vote, and challenged the Democratic Party to reject its southern segregationist branch in 1964.
Source: The Intercept
Aug 18, 2020
In 2018, the president called birthright citizenship “ridiculous” and vowed to stop it by executive order.
Source: Forward
Aug 18, 2020
A new report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue found 36 Facebook groups specifically dedicated to Holocaust denial.
Source: LA Times
Aug 18, 2020
Readers who know little about Lewis will find an often moving story, but it will prove unsatisfying to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the movement.
Source: Slate
Aug 18, 2020
The six-part High Score is heavy on nostalgia but light on revelations.
Source: Washington Post
Aug 18, 2020
In order to win, Trump "must find a way to reduce the number of anti-Trump voters who can actually cast a ballot," writes columnist Colbert I. King.
Source: Washington Monthly
Aug 18, 2020
Trump may be trying to sabotage the election, but the war against the Postal Service goes back decades.
Source: Huffington Post
Aug 18, 2020
The Portsmouth, VA Police Department has thrown the book at public officials they believe supported protests which led to the destruction of Confederate monuments. They also appear to be working to prevent a progressive Black state prosecutor from handling the case by claiming she is a witness to the events.
Source: Journal of American History
Aug 18, 2020
To mark the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, and to encourage critical assessment of the broader histories of suffrage and suffrage restriction in the United States, the Journal of American History has assembled “Women, Voting, and the Nineteenth Amendment: A JAH Suffrage Reader.”
Source: Washington Post
Aug 17, 2020
Holding a mass march for civil rights and social justice at a time of political division is risky. That's what they said in 1963. For leaders hoping to renew a call to national action, COVID and the election raise the stakes even higher.
Source: Vox
Aug 17, 2020
Democrats have scheduled a convention that’s more about celebrating the past than winning the future.
Source: ProPublica
Aug 17, 2020
In the 1950s, New York City created the Civilian Complaint Review Board to address police misconduct. Since then, police unions have fought to limit its power.
Source: The Atlantic
Aug 17, 2020
An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern history.
Source: Washington Post
Aug 17, 2020
“The education system is where people form values other than what their parents have,” 18 year old Vanessa Amoah of Omaha said. “George Floyd, Philando Castile — none of it would have happened if this country worked on proactively teaching anti-racist values."
Source: New York Times
Aug 17, 2020
The 20th century offers object lessons in why fleeing cities for suburban and exurban settings can backfire — even if it seems like a good idea at first.
Source: Washington Post
Aug 16, 2020
Major League Baseball's celebration of the centennial of the Negro Leagues whitewashes the role of major league owners in segregating baseball with an 1887 "Gentlemen's Agreement."
Source: YouTube
Aug 15, 2020
A composite video of Berlin shows the same Berlin streets in 1902 and 2015.
Source: New York Times
Aug 15, 2020
Tempers flared but no arrests or serious injuries resulted from confrontation between far-right and white supremacist groups and antiracist counterprotesters in Stone Mountain, Georgia on Saturday.
Source: New York Times
Aug 15, 2020
At 55, Ms. Harris is on the older side of this second generation of Americans whose parents came in those early years. But her family is part of a larger trend that has broad implications for the country’s identity, transforming a mostly white baby-boomer society into a multiethnic and racial patchwork.
Source: Vox
Aug 14, 2020
by Matthew Yglesias
Right-wing challenges to Kamala Harris's eligibility for the presidency depend on a legal argument that American-born children of immigrants are a lesser category of citizen. There is no basis under the Constitution for this.
