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: San Jose Mercury-News
Jun 17, 2020
Two San Francisco Bay Area schools named for founding fathers who were slaveholders will get new names following a push by Black Lives Matter activists, according to a newspaper report.
Source: BBC
Jun 17, 2020
Aristides de Sousa Mendes ruined his own diplomatic career by helping Jews acquire visas to leave Belgium ahead of Nazi persecution.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 17, 2020
The digital map, which had attracted little notice outside of the New York Public Library, offers significant insight into the course of a pivotal Civil War battle.
Source: Indian Country Today
Jun 17, 2020
Santa Fe Mayor Alan Webber announced Wednesday that the city would be removing two monuments honoring Kit Carson, who commanded U.S. troops who forced Navajos to a concentration camp in the 1860s, as well as a statue of Don Diego De Vargas, a Spanish conquistador who murdered hundreds of Pueblo people.
Source: The New York Times
Jun 17, 2020
This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime.
Source: CNN
Jun 17, 2020
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy proposed renaming every military installation for a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient and said many non-Confederate leaders engaged in racist, misogynist, or otherwise hateful behavior.
Source: CNN
Jun 16, 2020
Donald Trump's announcement of a planned rally in Tulsa opened new and old wounds for the city's black residents.
Source: Slate
Jun 16, 2020
by Rebecca Onion
One of the most powerful phrases in the Civil Rights Act is often viewed as a malicious joke that backfired. But its entrance into American law was far more savvy than that, led by Representative Martha Griffiths.
Source: New York Times
Jun 16, 2020
The wire service, which serves more than 2,000 newspapers, published a quotation from the leader of the Confederacy on his birth date. It ran in dozens of papers.
Source: The Atlantic
Jun 16, 2020
A new book of crime photographs by the late Gordon Parks reveals the photographer's art and his efforts to fight back against dominant and frequently racist ways of depicting crime and law enforcement.
Source: The Atlantic
Jun 16, 2020
Beneath the verbal jousting, the Court expressed dueling views of sexual orientation and gender, and how society should assess them.
Source: Running Magazine
Jun 16, 2020
The Australian sprinter stood in solidarity with Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the Olympics in Mexico City.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 16, 2020
Racial terror followed passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865.
Source: The Hill
Jun 16, 2020
"Throughout our nation’s history, racial inequality has hit our tribal nations the hardest," writes Ryan Benally.
Source: The Atlantic
Jun 16, 2020
Two major parts of American institutional life--law enforcement and the regulatory state--have failed spectaculary as the culmination of long-term historical trends.
Source: +972 Magazine
Jun 16, 2020
A new website tracking incidents of right-wing antisemitism finds that rarely a week goes by without the Republican Party boosting white nationalism. A long history of conservative maneuvering to portray Democrats and the left as antisemitic helps explain the lack of political consequences.
Source: Charlotte Observer
Jun 16, 2020
Republican Rep. Larry Pittman of Cabarrus County had earlier compared Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler and urging public hangings for doctors performing abortions.
Source: NBC News
Jun 15, 2020
In a video of the rally, shots could be heard as protesters tried to remove a statue of conquistador Juan de Oñate.
Source: The New Yorker
Jun 15, 2020
New histories suggest that the notorious Nazi was less a twisted figure than a true believer in a long-standing movement to use science to prove racial superiority.
Source: New York Times
Jun 15, 2020
Tensions between persons with Hispanic and Native American ancestry in New Mexico have been crystallized in protests over a statue of a brutal Spanish conquistador.
