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: Mississippi Free Press
Jan 16, 2023
"No serious person thinks Dr. King would not want us to interrogate how and why inequity became baked into our systems and how to fix those systems so they don’t keep replicating themselves."
Source: The New Republic
Jan 16, 2023
Thanks in part to a push from Johnnie Tillmon of the National Welfare Rights Association, MLK championed abolishing poverty by guaranteeing a basic income.
Source: New York Times
Jan 16, 2023
The reluctance of young Chinese to have children brings the potential of a demographic crisis and potential political turmoil.
Source: New York Times
Jan 15, 2023
Some experts warn of a possible lost generation of college students from underrepresented backgrounds if race-conscious admissions are prohibited.
Source: New York Times
Jan 13, 2023
Chen is one of the few survivors of the Great Leap Forward, but struggles with doubters of the veracity of her accounts.
Source: Christianity Today
Jan 13, 2023
A judge dismissed a lawsuit by LGBTQ students that challenged the faith-based exemptions that Christian colleges can claim from enforcement of antidiscrimination laws.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 12, 2023
Gun industry lobbyists secured a carveout for firearms from the 1972 legislation establishing the Consumer Product Safety Commission, meaning that federal regulation can't treat guns like any other consumer product.
Source: New York Times
Jan 12, 2023
Luisa Harris didn't just lead the Delta State Lady Statesmen to three consecutive championships in the early 1970s. She helped integrate the basketball program and the college. Is that the reason why her name and image are so conspicuously absent today?
Source: Nature
Jan 11, 2023
Collective actions at the University of California campuses and elsewhere are influencing research workers to view the work that they do in the lab as labor.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
Jan 11, 2023
Attorney General Janet Fitch insisted that the Supreme Court had no cause to review the state's law disenfranchising certain felons. She acknowledged the explicit racist intent embedded in the statute but insisted that "taint" had been removed.
Source: Pop Matters
Jan 11, 2023
After shifts in African American musical styles, the Great Depression and the Great Migration consigned him to obscurity, Son House recorded live music in the 1960s.
Source: ProPublica
Jan 11, 2023
Why has the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act failed to ensure the return of human remains, funerary artifacts, and other items to tribal authorities?
Source: The Atlantic
Jan 10, 2023
From 1973 to the early 2000s, the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church operated a communal home in a Detroit apartment building, dedicated to the collective project of replacing received notions of Black inferiority with a sense of possibility.
Source: Nieman Lab
Jan 10, 2023
Recent studies of media consumption and conspiracy theory adherence suggest misinformation is not terribly influential on political behavior. Unfortunately, neither is mythbusting, given the social and cognitive complexity of belief.
Source: Religion Dispatches
Jan 10, 2023
The religious right has hijacked the story of Virginia's Statute for Religious Freedom, obscuring the law's intention to prevent the domination of the religious preferences of the powerful.
Source: Jewish Currents
Jan 10, 2023
Conservative Zionists have reached accommodated American evangelicals' demands for a Christian-dominated America in exchange for support for a Jewish greater Israel. The media are reluctant to discuss this connection.
Source: The Nation
Jan 10, 2023
by Jacob M. Grumbach
The need for a renewed labor movement is a key component of democratic renewal that is too often ignored by Democratic strategists, says a political scientist who studies antidemocratic politics.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
Jan 10, 2023
Zach Borenstein explains why he painted "Spiritual Genocide" on the base of a campus Confederate memorial, and why he wishes he had talked with local activists first.
Source: Council on Foreign Relations
Jan 10, 2023
by Jacob Ware
With direct support from figures like Steve Bannon and the use of social media to organize a mass attack on the institutions of government, the January 8 attack on the Brazilian government has been molded by the American far right.
Source: New York Times
Jan 9, 2023
If the Korean conflict is often called a "forgotten war," the wall of remembrance added to the Korean War Veterans' Memorial doesn't meet the challenge of remembering the fallen.
