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
Aug 14, 2020
The Good Humor ice cream company joined forces with RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan to replace a standard jingle with roots in racist minstrel shows.
Source: New York Times
Aug 14, 2020
Freshkills is possibly the least likely poster child for urban ecological restoration in the world, and it is radical not just for the way it works — by encouraging flora and fauna do as they please — but for its sheer size. It is almost unbelievable that New York City would set aside a parcel of land as big as Lower Manhattan south of 23rd Street — and just let it go to seed.
Source: Washington Post
Aug 13, 2020
The “Talbot Boys” memorial is thought to be the only Confederate memorial on state property in Maryland.
Source: New York Times
Aug 12, 2020
In an oral history released after his death, the former national security adviser revealed a few key moments in which his ideas failed in the war against Saddam Hussein.
Source: AlterNet
Aug 12, 2020
A desperate Donald Trump appears to be pulling back the curtains on direct appeals to white racists. The strategy's success or failure may determine whether these appeals return as a core part of American political rhetoric.
Source: New York Times
Aug 12, 2020
Kamala Harris's selection as the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate is a result built on decades of Black women's political organizing and struggle for representation.
Source: Times of Israel
Aug 12, 2020
Family of biochemist and tabletop designer Martha Nierenberg, 96, says they’ll continue legal battle for art collection, stolen by the Nazis and still held by Hungary.
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center
Aug 11, 2020
The SPLC's report on Confederate memorials on public land has been updated to reflect recent removals of statues and other monuments.
Source: Washington Post
Aug 11, 2020
Boston's school health officials in 1918 denied that school attendance posed a heightened risk for children contracting or transmitting the flu.
Source: The New Yorker
Aug 11, 2020
Welles is careful to distinguish actors from stars: “The real star is an animal absolutely separate from actors. He may be, or she may be, the greatest actor in the world, but he is not like actors. The vocation of being a star is separate from the vocation of being an actor. It is very close to wanting to be President of the United States.”
Source: The New Yorker
Aug 11, 2020
You’d think that the Republican Party, which depends on the undue weight given to rural voters for its continued political life, would be particularly solicitous of the post office. But, at the higher reaches, its ideological preoccupations are stronger: the post office is a government service, and therefore bad; it should be run instead by people who can make money from it.
Source: New York Times
Aug 11, 2020
The discovery of a Nazi symbol in the mosaic floor of a German museum has prompted bitter debate about its creator’s past and the institution’s role.
Source: Washingtonian
Aug 10, 2020
A proposal for DC statehood would preserve a Capital District around the White House and Capitol, which is granted three Electoral College votes by the Constitution. It's possible that the only residents of the district would be the inhabitants of the White House.
Source: DCist
Aug 10, 2020
“Symbols matter. They shape how we view the world and inform our culture,” Julius D. Spain Sr., the President of NAACP Arlington, tells DCist. “Do these [symbols] really represent the Arlington we live in today?”
Source: Smithsonian
Aug 10, 2020
Here, compiled from sources including Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro’s memoir, contemporary news clippings and interviews with players who were part of this history, is a look back at Ferraro’s exhilarating, much-scrutinized path to becoming a political standard-bearer.
Source: Washington Post
Aug 10, 2020
The anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the circumstances of Roosevelt's failing health should be reminders of the significance of Joe Biden's choice, even beyond the campaign.
Source: NBC10Boston
Aug 10, 2020
A group of cultural organizations calls for a "New Deal" to support community arts and cultural organizations as a key part of advancing racial justice and reconciliation.
Source: History.com
Aug 10, 2020
Do any of the survival strategies developed by past societies seem familiar?
Source: National Archives (UK)
Aug 10, 2020
The outbreak of hostilities between the United States and Japan exposed the ignorance and indifference of many Britons to Japan. The British Ministry of Information responded with "creative and aggressive propaganda about the Japanese enemy."
Source: Daily Beast
Aug 10, 2020
President Donald Trump suggested Monday evening that the “1917” influenza pandemic ended World War II, wrongly citing both the year that the pandemic occurred and the year that World War II ended.
