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: SF Gate
Sep 14, 2022
The modeling and filming techniques that brought the attack on the Death Star to life were developed by planners using miniature cityscapes to help people experience possible urban environments before building them in real life.
Source: New York Magazine
Sep 13, 2022
Since World War II, antisemitic conspiracists have been persona non grata in the party. Now, as the Republicans seek to govern with a shrinking share of the electorate, they're taking any help they can get.
Source: NPR
Sep 13, 2022
NPR's A Martinez talks to Kimberle Crenshaw, who coined the term "critical race theory," about anti-racism and why she believes it must be part of American discourse.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Sep 12, 2022
Psychology researchers suggest that the stress of being called on at random can fall more heavily on female students. Are there ways to build participation and accountability into classes without stressing students out?
Source: Miami Herald
Sep 12, 2022
Columnist Fabiola Santiago argues that the censorship of the Cuban-American writer's plays by local schools shows that Cuban Americans can't expect the state's escalating culture wars to leave them alone.
Source: Bloomberg
Sep 12, 2022
While other European nations have made payments in atonement for massacres in their overseas colonial possessions, this initiative would be the first effort at reparations for participation in the transatlantic slave trade itself.
Source: New York Times
Sep 12, 2022
A student research project led to Roberta Wolff-Platt becoming the first identified descendant of persons enslaved by the benefactors of Harvard College. Now Harvard considers how to begin the process of atonement.
Source: PBS News Hour
Sep 11, 2022
Major dark money donors have pushed a case to the Supreme Court that could allow state legislatures to overturn the will of voters to decide statewide elections and electoral college votes, says election law expert Rick Hasen.
Source: New York Times
Sep 10, 2022
The current French history wars have drawn battle lines over whether Pétain's service in the first world war or his collaboration during the second should be remembered.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
Sep 9, 2022
Filmmaker Keith Beauchamp hopes to "shake the trees so that a justice-seeking atmosphere could be formed that will allow people to feel comfortable coming forward with new evidence on the case.”
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Sep 9, 2022
Hunt's participation in the Committee for the First Amendment, which questioned the activities of the House Unamerican Activities Committee in 1947, led to her blacklisting.
Source: New York Times
Sep 8, 2022
It's time to stop expanding the urban highways that divide communities, perpetuate racial segregation and harm health, and to consider removing them entirely, argues one architectural designer.
Source: The Atlantic
Sep 7, 2022
Like the petroleum industry, America's electric utilities deliberately sowed confusion about the growing scientific consensus on climate change in order to influence policy and protect profits.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Sep 7, 2022
Tasked with teaching a course on marriage and family, biologist Alfred Kinsey was shocked by the lack of scientific research on human sexuality. In 1947 he launched a research institute to fill that void.
Source: Politico
Sep 7, 2022
Though the school board's counsel said that the proposal was likely compliant with the law, the board voted 8-1 against it largely because of the pressure of a vocal group of parents in opposition. A contingent of the Proud Boys neofascist paramilitary organization was seen outside the meeting.
Source: CNN
Sep 7, 2022
Until recently, the Cherokee National History Museum in Oklahoma did not acknowledge slave ownership by tribal members or the efforts of the descendants of the enslaved to claim tribal membership.
Source: The Atlantic
Sep 7, 2022
The libel standards established by New York Times v. Sullivan are a target for conservatives who loathe the media. If they had their way Fox News would be in big trouble.
Source: New York Times
Sep 7, 2022
The actor's performances reflected the social tensions at the rise of the Civil Rights movement, advancing beyond the caricatured and one-dimensional characters prior Black actors were given to play, and often embodying the tensions between moderate and militant factions of the Black freedom movement.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Sep 6, 2022
An investigation documents the way that academic freedom has been subordinated to the presumed interests of the State of Florida (as aggressively determined by the administration of Governor Ron DeSantis).
Source: Thirteen
Sep 6, 2022
The new documentary examines the nation's response to Jewish refugees in the context of Southern Jim Crow policies and global racism and antisemitism.
