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: NY Times
Feb 7, 2020
Remembering Delilah L. Beasley, an Oakland Tribune columnist who documented black pioneers in California.
Source: The Hill
Feb 7, 2020
The bill is poised to pass easily with bipartisan support.
Source: Food and Wine
Feb 6, 2020
The confusion goes all the way back to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Source: Washington Post
Feb 6, 2020
Total time speaking for the usually long-winded Clinton: One minute and 36 seconds. Thursday for Trump: One hour and two minutes.
Source: NY Times
Feb 6, 2020
The feature includes images from all of the 17 African countries that gained independence in 1960 and reflections of creative people of African descent to give their personal reactions to these images.
Source: The Conversation
Feb 6, 2020
by Shana Poplack
Many of the features stereotypically associated with contemporary African American Vernacular English have a robust precedent in the history of the English language.
Source: The Conversation
Feb 6, 2020
by Jennifer Bain
After the Dresden bombings, the Soviet Army seized and inspected the surviving vault. The first bank official to enter the vault afterwards found it pillaged, with only one manuscript remaining. The bank could never confirm if the vault was emptied in an official capacity or if it was plundered.
Source: Time
Feb 6, 2020
Featuring historians Carol Anderson, Jeffrey A. Engel, Kevin M. Kruse, Barbara A. Perry, Manisha Sinha, and Brenda Wineapple.
Source: Washington Post
Feb 6, 2020
George Romney forged ahead with his support for civil rights and against extremism, which at times pitted him against members of his own party.
Source: NY Times
Feb 6, 2020
55 years after that bloody afternoon in February 1965, the Manhattan district attorney’s office is reviewing whether to reinvestigate the murder.
Source: Politico
Feb 5, 2020
Featuring historians Michael Kimmage, Claire Potter, Mary Frances Berry, Alan Baron, David Blight, Allan J. Lichtman, Brooks Simpson, Jeremi Suri, and Kim Wehle.
Source: The Conversation
Feb 5, 2020
by Pardis Mahdavi
For 40 years, the relationship between the U.S. and Iran has been marked by disagreement – but also by a series of missed opportunities.
Source: Washington Post
Feb 5, 2020
On Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) issued a posthumous pardon for Rustin.
Source: Washington Post
Feb 4, 2020
By the turn of the century, political leaders from opposing parties grew weary of the shenanigans and more or less began begging for ballot systems — not in tweet storms, but by writing letters to their local newspapers.
Source: NY Times
Feb 4, 2020
As Hindu nationalism continues its march across India, a cult of personality is rising around Nathuram Godse, the Hindu extremist who killed Gandhi.
Source: Washington Post
Feb 4, 2020
Nearly a century after a race massacre left as many as 300 people dead, the city plans to dig for suspected mass graves that may have been used to dispose of African American bodies.
Source: The Conversation
Feb 4, 2020
by Walter Reynolds Farley
Census 2020 is far from the first census to set off bitter political fights. One hundred years ago, results from Census 1920 initiated a decadelong struggle about how to allocate a state’s seats in Congress.
Source: Smithsonian Mag
Feb 3, 2020
Far from falling prey to a paranormal occurrence, the S.S. “Cotopaxi” actually sank during an unfortunate storm.
Source: The Conversation
Feb 3, 2020
by Leslie S. Leighton
The recent global spread of a deadly coronavirus originating in Wuhan, China, has led world leaders to invoke an ancient tradition to control the spread of illness: quarantine.
Source: Washington Post
Feb 2, 2020
Over the years, several candidates who fell short in the Iowa caucuses went on to win their party’s nomination.
