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: NBC News
Aug 14, 2022
Preservationists like Joseph McGill Jr., founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, say the commercialization of plantation sites has been happening for decades.
Source: The Atlantic
Aug 13, 2022
by Randy Boyagoda
A professor of English literature argues that it would be a shame for the novelist to be known only for the controversy surrounding his novel The Satanic Verses and the threats made against him and others involved in its publication.
Source: The Atlantic
Aug 12, 2022
"They believe that urban people, metropolitan people—disproportionately young and minorities, to be sure, but frankly liberal whites—are an illegitimate brew that’s changing America."
Source: Teen Vogue
Aug 11, 2022
by Rebecca Kavanagh
The brainchild of LAPD Chief Darryl Gates, DARE wasn't good at steering kids away from drugs. But it was good at bringing police into schools and encouraging kids to report anyone using drugs to the cops.
Source: NPR
Aug 10, 2022
"Cajuns were punished for speaking French in school, Cajun GIs left the region to fight in the world wars and learned English, the discovery of oil ushered in more English, and television further diluted the language."
Source: Boston Review
Aug 10, 2022
by Joseph Margulies
A defense attorney and legal expert warns that the harsh sentences imposed on perpetrators of a racist killing help to validate a punitive system of incarceration that overwhelmingly harms people of color.
Source: The Atlantic
Aug 10, 2022
by Kevin Dettmar
"What could the personal documents of a writer who was so public about her private world teach us about her work? How much of that persona was a performance and how much a reflection of her real anxieties and ambitions?"
Source: Michael Smith's Law Blog
Aug 10, 2022
by Michael Smith
The problem with the historical arguments in this term's SCOTUS decisions is that the court isn't "using" history but "choosing" it—deciding whether or not historical examples map onto present beliefs about the legitimacy of rights or regulations.
Source: Forbes
Aug 9, 2022
The building, once the headquarters of the Franklin and Armfield firm, once the largest domestic slave traders in the United States, now houses a reopened museum showing the DC area as a key site of Black history before and after emancipation.
Source: Washington Post
Aug 9, 2022
by Margaret Sullivan
Attempts to ban books from public libraries are a threat to democratic culture and should alarm all Americans, argues Post columnist Margaret Sullivan.
Source: Jacobin
Aug 9, 2022
by David Broder
After Nazi German occupied post-Mussolini Rome, Fiorentini escaped from prisons four times during twenty months of anti-Nazi struggle. He remained an important witness for a society prone to forgetting the horrors of far-right politics.
Source: NPR
Aug 9, 2022
With Brian and Eddie Holland, Dozier formed the formidable "HDH" songwriting partnership that turned out many of the biggest hits of the 1960s for The Supremes and The Four Tops among other Motown acts.
Source: Forward
Aug 8, 2022
Julius Klein's work as a lobbyist for the West German government involved rehabbing the reputations of former Nazis, and led to his expulsion from the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, the organization whose museum now honors him with a permanent exhibit.
Source: Vox
Aug 8, 2022
It's not unprecedented for Justices to shift their positions when confronted with public outrage, but five of the current members of the court have explicitly declared their indifference to public outcry, and understand there's little to constrain their future decisions.
Source: ProPublica
Aug 8, 2022
Both the Homestake Mining Company and New Mexico state regulators knew almost immediately that a uranium mine opened in 1958 was poisoning local groundwater. They didn't tell local residents, who have been fighting for their lives and for justice.
Source: Washington Post
Aug 8, 2022
A suit filed by American Oversight seeks information from the governor's office about how it has used information from a tip line set up to allow Virginians to report teachers who raised "divisive" concepts in their classes.
Source: Washington Post
Aug 8, 2022
William Baude of the University of Chicago argues that if historical arguments have been used selectively in recent cases, it opens the door for dissenting justices to propose more compelling narratives about the constitutional basis of rights.
Source: Texas Monthly
Aug 8, 2022
The combination of persecution and rage on display in CPAC rhetoric by the former president and others suggests the right granting itself permission to take steps including violence to take power if the ballot fails.
Source: The At
Aug 7, 2022
Critics have legitimate disagreements with the scope and urgency of climate action enabled by the just-passed Inflation Reduction Act. But it's a departure from precedent for the Senate to do anything at all.
Source: ABA Journal
Aug 5, 2022
Carrie LaPierre of North Andover turned a project on the legislative process into an amendment to the state budget bill. Elizabeth Johnson's 1693 conviction was finally overturned.
