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: Reuters
Jun 11, 2020
Countries must find more creative ways to depict their history than statues that glorify racists and colonialists, a founder of South Africa’s successful Rhodes Must Fall movement said on Thursday.
Source: 4WWL New Orleans
Jun 11, 2020
The group will be tasked with identifying places to be renamed and create a plan to educate the public on the changes made.
Source: New York Times
Jun 11, 2020
“His name should be taken off everything in America, period,” Mr. de Blasio said at a news briefing.
Source: Esquire
Jun 11, 2020
Children, strangely, are rarely so confused about all this. They know what it means when something is big and tall and in the center of things.
Source: Business Insider
Jun 11, 2020
The events known as the Orangeburg massacre have remained shrouded in mystery and the state of South Carolina has not helped to advance truth and reconciliation.
Source: Associated Press
Jun 11, 2020
For more than 70 years, the Confederate flag was a common and complicated sight at NASCAR races.
Source: The New York Times
Jun 10, 2020
A prosecutor said there was “reasonable evidence” that the man who shot the Swedish prime minister was Stig Engstrom, a graphic designer, who took his own life in 2000.
Source: New York Times
Jun 10, 2020
As public-health experts have known since the 19th century, information can be the best medicine. What new data streams could help quell future outbreaks?
Source: CNN
Jun 10, 2020
Debate immediately ensued at the 1936 publication of Mitchell's novel, with its nostalgia for plantation life, portrayal of happy slaves and threatening freed blacks, and sympathy toward the Confederate cause.
Source: American Songwriter
Jun 10, 2020
Performed with love and sorrow by Nina Simone only days after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., it sadly resonates today as much as ever.
Source: The New York Times
Jun 10, 2020
The editor of a top academic journal is facing calls to resign after criticizing protesters as “flat earthers” for wanting to defund the police.
Source: The Atlantic
Jun 10, 2020
Black men and women are still dying across the country. The power that is American policing has conceded nothing.
Source: CNN
Jun 10, 2020
After protestors took down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston this past Sunday and dumped it in the River Avon, many are reconsidering what should happen to statues of similar individuals, who profited from the suffering of so many.
Source: Axios
Jun 10, 2020
The President insisted that the names of military leaders from the losing side of the Civil War who fought for slavery and white supremacy were associated with "a history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom."
Source: NPR
Jun 9, 2020
According to Adam Serwer, 1868 is a more apt comparison.
Source: FiveThirtyEight
Jun 9, 2020
Black Americans have a long history of fighting for racial justice — and the system has a long history of failing them.
Source: The New York Times
Jun 9, 2020
The statue was targeted by recent protests against racism and Belgium’s colonial history. The authorities said the statue would remain in a museum.
Source: The New York Times
Jun 9, 2020
A boat believed to be the PT-59, a Navy vessel Kennedy commanded after the PT-109 was sunk, has been mired in the muck off Manhattan for decades.
Source: Mississippi Today
Jun 9, 2020
The current state flag was adopted in 1894 and is the last in the nation containing the Confederate battle emblem.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Jun 9, 2020
As the current pandemic ravages minority communities, historians are scrambling to continue work that preserves cultural heritage.
