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: New York Times
Jun 23, 2020
A monument to Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va., has become the site of an unlikely community space. That may change abruptly with new restrictions from the police.
Source: American Historical Association
Jun 23, 2020
The American Historical Association is launching a major new initiative to help our members and their colleagues with the challenges of being a historian, and a history teacher, in a virtual environment.
Source: Slate
Jun 22, 2020
The precedent means that election authorities have a positive obligation to alleviate conditions that could make voters afraid to cast a ballot. In the 1960s, that meant the Klan. Under COVID, it could mean crowded polls, long lines, or the lack of means to vote by mail.
Source: WTOP
Jun 22, 2020
Students of the school, 80% of whom are nonwhite, expressed their desire to stop memorializing the Confederate general.
Source: The Sportsman
Jun 22, 2020
Although his title fight with Joe Louis was treated as a symbol for both racial conflict and the looming battle between fascism and democracy, the German heavyweight was relieved to be dumped as a mascot of the Nazi party after a decisive loss to the African American champion.
Source: Rolling Stone
Jun 22, 2020
Local historians and Liverpool's International Slavery Museum released a statement saying that there was no evidence that the street made famous by Paul McCartney was named for slave trader James Penny.
Source: The Atlantic
Jun 22, 2020
Here’s what’s become of them.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 22, 2020
President Donald Trump called the decision "ridiculous" in an early-morning tweet.
Source: USA Today
Jun 22, 2020
Historian Rita Roberts explains how the iconography of black service workers reinforced white supremacist ideology on consumer packaging, while Jason Chambers and Gregory Smithers discuss the relationship of the business community to changing norms about racism.
Source: New York Times
Jun 22, 2020
The Museum emphasized that the statue was being moved because of how it depicted Roosevelt in a hierarchical relationship to the figures of Native American and African men.
Source: Washington Monthly
Jun 22, 2020
The Republican Party has not matched the gains made by Democrats in seating women in Congress since the "Year of the Woman" in 1992.
Source: New York Times
Jun 21, 2020
The Times located a number of the black children assaulted by white teens during an anti-integration march in Queens in 1975. The incident was just one part of an organized and often violent effort by white Rosedale residents to prevent racial integration.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 21, 2020
Warren G. Harding’s comments about race and equality were remarkable for 1921.
Source: New York Times
Jun 21, 2020
Historians, including some at Monmouth, have said that Wilson believed in white supremacy and advanced policies to support his racist worldview.
Source: The Atlantic
Jun 20, 2020
Urban inequality didn’t happen by accident.
Source: NPR
Jun 19, 2020
Local historians in Chicago seek to preserve the life story of Nancy Green, whose life was only partly defined by the advertising symbol she portrayed.
Source: Politico
Jun 19, 2020
In 1993, Carol Moseley Braun, the first black woman in the Senate, joined Biden’s Judiciary Committee. It solved an image problem for Biden. The results were groundbreaking.
Source: LitHub
Jun 19, 2020
Harmony Holiday dreams of a Black sound unfettered by white desire.
Source: Eat This, Not That
Jun 19, 2020
In honor of Juneteenth, these five exemplary novels explore the evolution of African American cuisine.
Source: Reuters
Jun 18, 2020
The Lloyd’s of London insurance market apologised on Thursday for its “shameful” role in the 18th and 19th Century Atlantic slave trade and pledged to fund opportunities for black and ethnic minority people.
