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 New Republic
Sep 6, 2022
There are relatively few Americans living today whose parents were harassed or jailed for performing illegal abortions. Their stories should inform the debate today.
Source: The Atlantic
Sep 6, 2022
Despite political rhetoric from some quarters, suburbanization has been undermining the association of Black America with central cities – in large part because of the disinvestment and abandonment of urban communities.
Source: The New Yorker
Sep 5, 2022
by Adam Gopnik
Critic Adam Gopnik examines two recent books on alternatives to representative democracy that respond to the recent use of institutions by power-seeking authoritarians.
Source: Jacobin
Sep 5, 2022
Read Debs's 1903 Labor Day Address in its entirety.
Source: The Guardian
Sep 4, 2022
Looking beyond iconic and high-profile women in the movement, a new book examines the organizing energy ordinary Black women brought to, and the empowerment they often took from, the Black Panther Party.
Source: Washington Post
Sep 4, 2022
by Gillian Brockell
The Anarchy, an English war of succession that lasted from 1138 to 1153, is part of the narrative inspiration for the new fantasy series.
Source: NBC News
Sep 4, 2022
“The best way I can describe how we have found things is in the most inhumane way possible,” Laine Lyons said. “Just completely disregarded that these were once people.”
Source: Washington Post
Sep 4, 2022
The True Reformer Building in Washington is likely the first in the nation to be designed, funded, built and owned by African Americans as part of a comprehensive mission of economic and social self-reliance and uplift in the early 20th century.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Sep 2, 2022
by Richard Thompson Ford
The cause of equality was dealt a fatal blow when courts and colleges shifted the focus of affirmative action from fighting racism to promoting diversity, argues legal scholar Richard Thompson Ford.
Source: Jacobin
Sep 2, 2022
Workers are doing more for less, and have been for decades. Industry knows this; they're worried that workers are beginning to understand it, too.
Source: Virginia Public Media
Sep 2, 2022
"In a shift from a multi-year effort to tell a more complete history of the mansion, visitors won’t be taken to a building next to the mansion where enslaved workers once slept and toiled. And in two tours on Friday, docents made no mention of slavery at all."
Source: Associated Press
Sep 1, 2022
The Polish government referenced a recently completed report documenting the costs to Poland of war, and argued that reconciliation between the nations could best be served by a payment.
Source: Harper's Bazaar
Sep 1, 2022
by Kaitlyn Greenidge
The two sides of Mississippi's history are its exploitative oligarchy and the efforts of Black Mississippians and their allies to imagine egalitarian alternatives against the odds. Activists' responses to the collapse of the Jackson water infrastructure will test that spirit.
Source: The New Republic
Sep 1, 2022
The think tank was founded to counter what its leaders saw as a bipartisan alliance of neoconservatives and liberal interventionists that pushed the United States toward military intervention as the solution to foreign policy problems. How will the Ukraine war affect its credibility in policy circles?
Source: New York Times
Aug 31, 2022
“She shamed you out of bourgeois confidence, then devoted selfless time to your progressive re-education,” Professor David Levering Lewis said.
Source: Slate
Aug 31, 2022
by Dennis Aftergut and Philip Allen Lacovara
A narrow indictment focused on charges related to the improper keeping of documents, delivered immediately after the November midterms is the only chance to prosecute Trump between elections and strike a blow for accountability.
Source: The Atlantic
Aug 31, 2022
Sportswriter Jemele Hill writes that Russell was a model for later activist athletes because he rejected silence and sought to build solidarity with others.
Source: Washington Post
Aug 30, 2022
Anthony Cavo's collection of photographs shows the changing relationships of people and their pets, as well as the changing technology of photography.
Source: The New Yorker
Aug 28, 2022
"Some baby boomers were permanently shaped by their participation in the countercultural protests and the antiwar activism of the nineteen-sixties and seventies. Others were shaped by their aversion to those movements. Justice Samuel Alito belongs to the latter category."
Source: Los Angeles Times
Aug 27, 2022
"Strivers, grinders and hustlers hate them, but quiet quitters, slackers and work-to-rulers are treasured antiheroes in American folk culture."
