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
May 24, 2020
It is time to rename bases for American heroes — not racist traitors.
Source: Washington Post
May 23, 2020
Maurice Hilleman helped develop vaccines that have saved millions of children from death from contagious disease.
Source: Jacobin
May 23, 2020
As the Left attempts to chart a new course in the wake of the Bernie Sanders campaign, there’s no better time to learn from America’s most underrated socialist, labor leader, and civil rights legend, A. Philip Randolph.
Source: Watch The Yard
May 22, 2020
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland joined the Freedom Riders in 1961, served a sentence at the notorious Parchman Farm prison, and enrolled at historically Black Tougalou College, where she joined the Delta Sigma Theta sorority and continued civil rights activism in Jackson, MS.
Source: The Guardian
May 22, 2020
Disease has been a catalyst for significant changes in urban infrastructure; history suggests COVID-19 will be no different, though what those changes might be is uncertain.
Source: Counterpunch
May 22, 2020
National service and a green new deal, with lessons from the old new deal, could be the first step in “civilianizing” our nation, and beyond recovery, enhancing the world’s prospects for health, justice, and sustainability.
Source: TIME
May 22, 2020
Activists' decision to form a broad organization uniting many Asian ethnicities helped create a stronger political movement.
Source: American Prospect
May 21, 2020
How did one of the most addled government agencies end up as our last line of pandemic defense? The answer lies in the agency's history of capture by large business interests.
Source: New York Times
May 21, 2020
McCoy headed the Brooklyn district where teacher transfers in 1968 sparked a bitter, racially-charged dispute over union seniority and community control.
Source: Paris Review
May 21, 2020
James Hemings, one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves, taught his fellow slaves at Monticello everything he knew about food, transmitting his influence down the generations, onto the tables of Virginia’s social elite.
Source: New York Times
May 21, 2020
Sweeping new laws, justified by claims for security amid political protests, threaten to eliminate independence from Beijing in Hong Kong's political and civil life.
Source: Independent
May 21, 2020
The president also refused to wear face coverings for the entirety of his visit despite being urged by the company to do so.
Source: Vanity Fair
May 20, 2020
Even if he didn’t sell his soul at the Crossroads, the massively influential Mississippi guitarist remains shrouded in mystery. An upcoming memoir from his 94-year-old stepsister brings new depth to Johnson’s mythos—and the third verified picture of him in existence.
Source: ArtNet News
May 19, 2020
Portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama will likely not be installed at the White House until Trump is out of office.
Source: Washington Post
May 19, 2020
“I was the big fish. I think it was a mutual thing. I took their money, and they’d put me out in front of the cameras and tell me what to say. That’s what I’d say,” she says in “AKA Jane Roe.”
Source: DCist
May 19, 2020
Federal prosecutors in New York filed a civil action to forfeit one of the museum's clay tablets containing an excerpt of the "Epic of Gilgamesh."
Source: The New York Times
May 19, 2020
As universities announce plans to bring back students, a pattern is emerging: shorter semesters to avoid late-fall infections.
Source: Washington Post
May 19, 2020
Museums and research libraries are reporting huge spikes of do-it-yourself historians.
Source: Montgomery Advertiser
May 19, 2020
The Montgomery Freedom Rides Museum is closed due to COVID-19. They are hosting observations of the anniversary of th 1961 civil rights action on their facebook page through Thursday, 5/21.
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
May 19, 2020
In December 2018, Albert Mohler, longtime president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, released a report detailing and denouncing the school’s legacy of supporting slavery and segregation. However, evidence suggests both the denomination's and Mohler's personal reckoning have been incomplete.
