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: Florida Phoenix
Jul 1, 2020
Right now, Florida law requires African American history to be taught at K-12 public schools, though some schools may not be teaching it.
Source: NPR
Jun 30, 2020
Because of the area's troubled past, it's easy for locals to think the worst happened to Fuller.
Source: New York Times
Jun 30, 2020
by Laurence Ralph
Anthropologist and police violence researcher Laurence Ralph made the film above to explain exactly what it means to be policed in America today. It moves from my own experiences with racial profiling as a teenager to the horrific history of police torture in Chicago.
Source: NPR
Jun 30, 2020
"People who wanted to keep the flag couldn't ignore what it meant anymore," says Democratic state Rep. Robert Johnson, the minority leader in the Mississippi House.
Source: The Atlantic
Jun 30, 2020
Andrew Ferguson argues that the Lincoln Project's anti-Trump ads follow Abe Lincoln's lead in one respect: they echo the young Lincoln's talent for partisan attacks and inflammatory rhetoric. They inflame and agitate, but don't persuade.
Source: The Nation
Jun 30, 2020
by André Robert Lee
In this video, we meet Sylvester, a man born and raised in the same town where Emmett Till was tortured and lynched. His story, his connection to the land and the people, and his recollection of that fateful event compels us to bear witness.
Source: The New York Times
Jun 29, 2020
The British prime minister, trying to regroup in the coronavirus pandemic, wants to bury Thatcherism and embark on a program of ambitious public works.
Source: Arts Fuse
Jun 29, 2020
A reassessment on the 40th anniversary of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, a novel that many consider one of the funniest ever written by an American.
Source: The Hill
Jun 29, 2020
In response, the President said, "We have a heritage, we have a history and we should learn from the history, and if you don’t understand your history, you will go back to it again. You will go right back to it. You have to learn. Think of it, you take away that whole era and you’re going to go back to it sometime."
Source: History.com
Jun 29, 2020
To call slavery a “cruel war against human nature itself” may have accurately reflected the values of many of the founders, but it also underscored the paradox between what they said and what they did.
Source: New York Times
Jun 29, 2020
Chika Okeke-Agulu’s voice is one of many calling for the repatriation of African artworks in European and American collections that are thought to have been acquired through colonial exploitation or illegal looting.
Source: WBUR
Jun 29, 2020
To keep her aunt’s legacy alive, Harris says her family hopes Quaker Oats comes out with a commemorative box to recognize the many women who portrayed Aunt Jemima over the years.
Source: The New York Times
Jun 29, 2020
As the coronavirus keeps spreading, employers are convinced remote work has a bright future. Decades of setbacks suggest otherwise.
Source: The New Yorker
Jun 29, 2020
This was a new form of human experience, engaged disengagement, a technological shield from the world and an antidote to ennui.
Source: National Interest
Jun 29, 2020
The landing boat made famous on the beaches of Normandy was rumored to have been designed for liquor smugglers during Prohibition.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 28, 2020
“In the name of history, I stand for my two sons who are 1 and 6 years old,” said Sen. Derrick Simmons (D), who is black. “Who should be educated in schools, be able to frequent businesses and express their black voices in public spaces that all fly a symbol of love, not hate. A symbol of unity, not division. A symbol that represents all Mississippians, not some.”
Source: The New York Times
Jun 28, 2020
Last week it was decided to remove the image because it evoked racism and colonialism. Sunday, the other side turned out.
Source: CNN
Jun 28, 2020
The creator of The New York Times 1619 project and Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones speaks with CNN's Manu Raju about the history behind the wealth gap between white Americans and Black Americans
Source: WAMU
Jun 28, 2020
Four men have been charged with destruction of federal property for allegedly trying to topple the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square.
Source: Informed Comment
Jun 28, 2020
by Juan Cole
In Washington, a leak like this makes you ask questions. Who leaked the information and why?
