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: WLTX (SC)
Jun 15, 2020
Sims is known to have performed hundreds of medical experimentations on enslaved women.
Source: Miller Center (University of Virginia)
Jun 15, 2020
Lyndon Johnson's words after rioting erupted in Detroit speak to ongoing concerns in American society.
Source: The New Yorker
Jun 15, 2020
She has become an icon of American letters. Now readers are reckoning with another side of her legacy.
Source: New York Review of Books
Jun 15, 2020
by Amna A. Akbar
An Ohio State University law professor summarizes the history of activists and academics who shaped the movement for police abolition that has received attention in the wake of George Floyd's killing and ensuing protests.
Source: National Security Archive
Jun 15, 2020
Recently declassified documents suggest the U.S. Embassy in Guyana harbored and concealed strong suspicions that the Guyanese government arranged the assassination of activist Walter Rodney.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 15, 2020
A segregationist congressman's "poison pill" amendment to include sex discrimination in the 1964 Civil Rights Act became the linchpin of a ruling that LGBTQ people are protected by the act.
Source: Politico
Jun 14, 2020
Trump's anger at internet speculation about his health reflects a serious concern: perceptions of vigor and physical strength have long been influential in presidential politics.
Source: The New York Times
Jun 14, 2020
Bristol was built with money from the slave trader Edward Colston. Tearing down his statue has reopened a painful reckoning with the city’s racist past.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 14, 2020
Named for Claudius Lee, Lee Hall has faced numerous calls to be renamed ever since history students in the 1990s discovered a yearbook claiming Lee as a campus Ku Klux Klan leader.
Source: Haaretz
Jun 14, 2020
A new book details how Ted Turner broke the rules of the news business (and occasionally good taste) to launch CNN.
Source: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
Jun 14, 2020
Edith White was part of a team of women who served the US Navy as codebreakers, and fought for democratic values like integrated schools after the war's end.
Source: 60 Minutes
Jun 14, 2020
A story reported in December features Smithsonian historian John W. Franklin describing the long-overdue plans to unearth the truth and honor the dead of the Greenwood neighborhood, the "Black Wall Street" of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Source: The New York Times
Jun 13, 2020
The landmark 1965 immigration law prioritized family ties, but originally as a way to keep America white.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 13, 2020
A brief video discussion of the worldwide movement to removing public monuments to racist figures features Professor Ana Lucia Araujo of Howard University.
Source: Greenville (SC) News
Jun 12, 2020
Calhoun was a slave owner and secessionist whose plantation became Clemson University; Tillman was a governor and white supremacist whose name adorns Clemson's most iconic building.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 12, 2020
In the last few weeks, books from authors the likes of Ibram X. Kendi, Annette Gordon-Reed, and David W. Blight have seen surges in sales. But in the current moment, how much do sales say about social and political influence?
Source: Brandeis University
Jun 12, 2020
A panel featuring legal scholar Anita Hill and historian Leah Wright Rigeur discuss the current protest movements at 12:00 Noon Eastern today.
Source: The Atlantic
Jun 11, 2020
Documentarian Daniel Lombroso followed several prominent white nationalist media figures for his documentary film White Noise, which will screen on June 20 through AFI.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
Jun 11, 2020
Four years before the state adopted a flag design with the confederate emblem in the top left corner, Mississippi made radical changes to its Constitution which deliberately targeted Black residents and reversed Reconstruction-era reforms.
Source: New York Times
Jun 11, 2020
A debate is unfolding over whether to rename the installations, as part of a broader national reckoning over buildings, monuments and memorials to men who fought to preserve slavery and uphold white supremacy.
