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: NYT
Jun 26, 2018
When the Montgomery bus boycott electrified the struggle against segregation, it was all recorded in appeals bonds, court motions and $10 fines. A forgotten trove has turned up in a courthouse vault.
Source: NYT
Jun 26, 2018
Instead of returning the statue to its original glory, the so-called restoration left St. George looking more like a childish model of a cartoon character than a precious piece of art.
Source: Time Magazine
Jun 25, 2018
Here's what to know about Britain's controversial role in shaping the region.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 25, 2018
In one troublesome sentence she had written of the west: “there were no people. Only Indians lived there.”
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 23, 2018
The waiter died. The congressman was acquitted.
Source: CNN
Jun 22, 2018
42% of Americans say President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office.
Source: AP
Jun 22, 2018
Have America’s protests changed so they rely more on the masses and less on one captivating leader? The answer, some experts say, is yes.
Source: Fox23
Jun 22, 2018
Here are 3 heartbreaking examples from history.
Source: Rudaw
Jun 21, 2018
Many old Islamic, Jewish, and Christian historical sites were damaged.
Source: The Cook Political Report
Jun 21, 2018
For, one, Trump’s job approval rating in the Gallup survey is 45 percent, eight points higher than the dismal 37 percent where George W. Bush was sitting at this point in 2006.
Source: Raw Story
Jun 21, 2018
Of course, no president serviced 16 years. No one in his circle has corrected him.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Jun 21, 2018
From the moment the Department of Education was born, critics — Republicans, almost exclusively — have sought to dismantle it.
Source: Smithsonian
Jun 21, 2018
A new initiative titled She Built NYC is asking New Yorkers to recommend potential subjects for the monument.
Source: NPR
Jun 21, 2018
With his policy of "America First," President Trump has a very different take on this complex web of treaties and alliances set up and shaped by the U.S. over the past seven decades.
Source: NYT
Jun 20, 2018
Two skeletons and the remains of 11 amputated limbs are leading to new knowledge of combat injuries and medical practices on long-ago battlefields.
Source: NYT
Jun 19, 2018
Charleston, the South Carolina port city where about 40 percent of enslaved Africans who were brought to North America landed after being taken from their homelands, has become the latest city to apologize for its role in the slave trade.
Source: Time Magazine
Jun 19, 2018
He may have actually gotten it in a saloon.
Source: New Republic
Jun 19, 2018
Zora Neale Hurston’s drive to tell the story.
Source: Newsweek
Jun 19, 2018
The “round aircraft” stated in its product description that it was “the first object in the world capable of flying in space.”
Source: The Conversation
Jun 19, 2018
by Taasogle Daryl Rowe and Kamilah Marie Woodson
"We believe that the restorative memories developed in public spaces like the National Memorial for Peace and Justice create a shared story that can inoculate African-Americans from ongoing dehumanization."
