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: Jersey Digs
Jul 24, 2020
What better way to enshrine the lessons we’ve learned from decades of mass incarceration than by transforming the remnants of Newark’s first penitentiary into a gathering place — be it a museum or community center — that might bring about the end of a problematic legacy.
Source: WHYY
Jul 24, 2020
Advocates for the statue's removal noted that Columbus has come to sybolize white supremacy, colonialism, and genocide and that there are better figures or stories that exemplify Italian American culture to celebrate.
Source: Washington Post
Jul 24, 2020
“Virginia has a story to tell that extends far beyond glorifying the Confederacy and its participants,” House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn said in an emailed statement, condemning the Confederate ideology as based on maintaining slavery.
Source: New York Post
Jul 24, 2020
The criminology professor had been praised by some as a champion of free speech and condemned by others as a purveyor of racist, homophobic, or otherwise bigoted rhetoric.
Source: Equal Justice Initiative
Jul 24, 2020
Over the study's 40-year span, 128 participants died of syphilis or syphilis-related complications.
Source: The Nation
Jul 23, 2020
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, women- and minority-owned businesses are still contending with unequal access to credit.
Source: The Guardian
Jul 23, 2020
A 93-year-old former SS guard has been found guilty of accessory to the murder of 5,232 people at a Nazi concentration camp in the final days of the second world war.
Source: ABC11 (NC)
Jul 23, 2020
"When you use the term genocide, it really brings home the fact that this isn't just over reproductive behavior, it's really about eliminating a group of people," said a co-author of the study.
Source: The New York Times
Jul 22, 2020
The disability civil rights movement has many distinct narratives, but the prevailing themes are of community, justice and equity.
Source: New York Times
Jul 22, 2020
The history of the Kariba Dam is the story of a war over the past and the future of a river.
Source: NPR
Jul 22, 2020
Most of the museums surveyed made a point of providing educational resources to students during the lockdown. But those are precisely the kind of services that will need to be cut in the budget crunch ahead, according to almost two-thirds of museum directors.
Source: Hyperallergic
Jul 22, 2020
The museum estimates at least a 50% budget reduction for the coming year (the museum’s annual budget before COVID-19 was about $11 million) due to the losses of revenue caused by the pandemic.
Source: USA Today
Jul 22, 2020
Vivian was a monumental figure in the Civil Rights Movement, with a stretch of advocating for racial equality for more than six decades from his first sit-in demonstrations in the 1940s in Peoria, Illinois.
Source: Washington Post
Jul 22, 2020
The massacre — one of the worst episodes of racist violence in U.S. history — became the subject of renewed scrutiny as Tulsa prepares to commemorate the 100th anniversary next year.
Source: Deseret News
Jul 22, 2020
To bring American games to a stop requires apocalyptic events.
Source: Foreign Affairs
Jul 22, 2020
The bold policy for not just weathering the crisis, but coming out better.
Source: The New York Times
Jul 22, 2020
The question of what to include in the case against President Trump is at the heart of a new book by Norm Eisen, a lawyer working with House Democrats in the impeachment effort.
Source: The New York Times
Jul 22, 2020
The bipartisan vote to banish the statues from display was the latest step in a nationwide push to remove historical symbols of racism and oppression from public places.
Source: Stockholm Center for Freedom
Jul 22, 2020
In a letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Professor Dina Rizk Khoury urged that all charges against Professor Bülent Şık, a food engineer working on public health and food safety, be dropped.
Source: ProPublica
Jul 22, 2020
Since the early 2000s, an escalating fight over so-called voter fraud has crippled the EAC, often sabotaging its most dedicated commissioners while emboldening those who are less effective.
