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: The Daily Beast
Feb 6, 2018
A group of students who invaded the Blighty café in North London, which houses a statue of Winston Churchill, say they were decrying the wartime British prime minister’s racism.
Source: The Boston Globe
Feb 5, 2018
Though opposition to abortion is what many think fueled the powerful conservative white evangelical right, 81 percent of whom voted for Donald Trump, it was really school integration.
Source: Time Magazine
Feb 5, 2018
Viewers were taken aback. It didn’t take long for social media users to inquire whether King’s family approved of the company appropriating the civil rights leader’s words as a marketing tool.
Source: The Washington Post
Feb 4, 2018
The history of racism in the U.S. military goes back to before the United States was established, with black people defending a country that didn't protect them.
Source: The Chicago Sun-Times
Feb 4, 2018
Arthur Jones — an outspoken Holocaust denier, activist anti-Semite and white supremacist — is poised to become the Republican nominee for an Illinois congressional seat representing parts of Chicago and nearby suburbs.
Source: The Times and Democrat
Feb 4, 2018
It’s been 50 years since the South Carolina Highway Patrolmen fired their weapons into a crowd of black students protesting on the front of the campus of South Carolina State College.
Source: Newsweek
Feb 3, 2018
The tomb is thought to have belonged to “Hetpet,” a high-ranking female official.
Source: Time Magazine
Feb 2, 2018
An interview with Loch K. Johnson, a veteran one the Church Committee hearings and author of the new book "Spy Watching: Intelligence Accountability in the United States."
Source: Newsweek
Feb 2, 2018
Vladimir Putin marks Russia's bloodiest battle with the Nazis.
Source: National Security Archive
Feb 2, 2018
The president privately threatened that he would consider “hauling out” U.S. forces from Western Europe if West Germany reneged on its 1954 pledge not to produce nuclear weapons.
Source: Crosscut
Feb 2, 2018
It is 2018, and we’re talking about Nazis.
Source: The Greenville News
Feb 1, 2018
“I think it’s important to note that my family didn’t fight because we had slaves. My family fought because the federal government was trying to tell us how to live.”
Source: History channel
Feb 1, 2018
Standing at 6 feet 2 inches, with proficient shooting skills from his time in the Civil War and his knowledge of the terrain and language, Bass Reeves became the first black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi. As deputy marshal, Bass is said to have arrested more than 3,000 people and killed 14 outlaws, all without sustaining a single gun wound.
Source: Politico
Feb 1, 2018
The brief history of a shopworn cliché that deserves to die.
Source: The Atlantic
Feb 1, 2018
A new report finds that the topic is mistaught and often sentimentalized—and students are alarmingly misinformed as a result.
Source: NYT
Feb 1, 2018
Now the second line of the anthem, which gained official status only in 1980, will soon become “True patriot love in all of us command” rather than “in all thy sons command.”
Source: Vox
Feb 1, 2018
“I can’t think of a single time any president has done anything like this.”
Source: Political Wire
Feb 1, 2018
The president’s claim is not backed up by Nielsen’s numbers, which show Barack Obama at 48 million viewers in 2010, George W. Bush at 51.7 million in 202 and Bill Clinton at 45.8 million in 1994.
Source: NYT
Jan 31, 2018
Babies born during the Dutch Hunger Winter became adults with higher rates of health problems. Now researchers may have found the genetic switches that made it happen.
Source: ABC News
Jan 31, 2018
The state Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to install a statue of educator Mary McLeod Bethune in the spot where a statue of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith still stands.
