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 11, 2020
Our cities are broken because affluent Americans have been segregating themselves from the poor, and our best hope for building a fairer, stronger nation is to break down those barriers.
Source: LA Times
May 11, 2020
The five-part docuseries “Asian Americans” features historians and artists like Hari Kondabolu, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Randall Park while highlighting milestones in the history of the country’s fastest-growing demographic.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
May 11, 2020
In an ironic twist, Edward Jenner’s historic house is struggling to outlast the financial toll of being closed.
Source: The New York Times
May 11, 2020
An interactive plan for a Holocaust museum envisioned sorting visitors into victims, executioners and collaborators. Backlash ensued.
Source: TIME
May 11, 2020
A new docuseries on PBS calls attention to how Asian Americans have often been violently scapegoated for larger societal issues.
Source: USA Today
May 11, 2020
For decades, these bookstores have occupied a singular place in the cultural life of black America, says W. Paul Coates, founder and director of Black Classic Press and BCP Digital Printing and father of bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Source: Los Angeles Times
May 11, 2020
In New York, nightly subway closures mean a tear in the fabric of the city.
Source: New York Times
May 11, 2020
“I would not hold the good job I have today were it not for Barbara,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said.
Source: New York
May 11, 2020
Biden's advisers agreed: If they were going to talk about lessons from history, their future calls might as well dive into the Great Depression and World War II.
Source: New York Times
May 11, 2020
Modern cities can learn from the fate of the collapsed civilizations at Ugarit and Mycenae.
Source: New York Times
May 10, 2020
Brunswick, Ga., gained national attention during the civil rights era for the way black and white leaders had worked together to integrate peacefully.
Source: New York Times
May 10, 2020
Kim, who narrates the PBS documentary, discusses its unanticipated resonance in the age of Covid-19 and his own experiences with the disease.
Source: Washington Post
May 10, 2020
Ms. Pratt, who died May 6 at 101, was one of the first members of the Rockford Peaches, a powerhouse Illinois team formed in 1943 and immortalized in director Penny Marshall’s sports comedy “A League of Their Own.”
Source: Daily Tar Heel
May 10, 2020
A commission at the University of North Carolina looked to the University of Virginia for guidance on reckoning with the institution's historical involvement with slavery and the Confederacy.
Source: New York Times
May 10, 2020
Little Richard was a challenge to 1950s proprieties: to segregation, to musical decorum, to chastity, to straightness.
Source: BBC
May 10, 2020
The woman responsible for the creation of Mother's Day would have approved of the modest celebrations likely to take place this year. The commercialisation of the day horrified her - to the extent that she even campaigned to have it rescinded.
Source: US News
May 9, 2020
The pandemic sparked shutdowns, warnings and pushback around the U.S. that are eerily similar to the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak in Las Vegas and other cities more than 100 years later.
Source: CNN
May 9, 2020
In allowing various perspectives to shine through, "Mrs. America" takes a piece of the past that, through the work of time, has been smoothed of its rough edges and grants it complexity.
Source: The New York Times
May 8, 2020
He was the only white defendant to be convicted alongside Nelson Mandela and others in 1964 for resisting apartheid. He spent 22 years in prison.
Source: The New York Times
May 8, 2020
As the coronavirus began its inexorable march across the country’s 11 time zones, it robbed the capital of lives, and also its chance to come together over a shared victory.
