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 Atlantic
Jul 25, 2022
by Ryan Busse
Aiming at a clientele of isolated, insecure young men, the gun industry began to advertise the killing power of its products and encouraging buyers to see this power as a key to their masculine patriotic identities.
Source: Associated Press
Jul 25, 2022
Fifty years ago, Jean Heller revealed the horrifying truth that the US government had been denying hundreds of Black men treatment so they could study the progress of the disease.
Source: Washington Post
Jul 24, 2022
Without a recognized privacy right to reproductive freedom, legal precedents like the Buck v. Bell decision could allow states to resume forcibly sterilizing women they deem unfit for motherhood.
Source: Texas Tribune
Jul 24, 2022
The hard right turn of state politics has caused many gay Republicans in Texas to scale back their goals for acceptance in the party.
Source: Politico
Jul 22, 2022
Jim Byron, the CEO of the Richard Nixon Foundation, is the unofficial guardian of the former president's legacy, having worked his way up in the organization after starting as a teenaged summer intern.
Source: Texas Observer
Jul 21, 2022
The ideas and conspiratorial mindset central to Bircherism have become part of mainstream conservatism, with booming popularity in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs. Historian Edward H. Miller explains the group's ideas have been more tenacious than the organization itself.
Source: The Atlantic
Jul 20, 2022
by David H. Gans
"This is a Court that insists it is following history and tradition where they lead, while cherry-picking the history it cares about to reach conservative results."
Source: Washington Post
Jul 20, 2022
by Carlo Rotella
Although he came on the scene as a guitar hotshot, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram's artistic ambitions go beyond the bombastic soloing of the blues-rock genre and incorporate more of the traditional breadth of the blues as African American music.
Source: PEN America
Jul 20, 2022
A panel including historian Tara Y. White will discuss the connection between First Amendment rights and the struggle for Black freedom.
Source: The Atlantic
Jul 19, 2022
by Eve Fairbanks
"Sometimes I like to tell people that South Africa, very loosely, collapses hundreds of years of American history—from the antebellum period, through the end of Jim Crow, and well into our future—into about 50."
Source: Washington Post
Jul 17, 2022
Efforts to recover artifacts from a small Massachusetts museum highlight the historical trade in looted items and trophies of conquest.
Source: New York Times
Jul 17, 2022
In a newly-discovered unpublished memoir, the woman who accused Emmett Till of making sexual advances presents a self-serving account of her role in the events that led to his murder.
Source: Washington Post
Jul 15, 2022
Ann McLean called secession legally valid and compared the Union army to the Russian forces invading Ukraine, while lamenting that Confederate monuments would no longer "tell the true story of the American South to people 500 years from now."
Source: Associated Press
Jul 15, 2022
The state's top prosecutor said that despite the discovery of the warrant and the publication of Ms. Donham's memoir, the woman at the center of the Till lynching will not be prosecuted.
Source: In These Times
Jul 14, 2022
By starving the NLRB and other agencies that enforce the terms of union contracts and labor laws, the right wing is daring workers to take more militant action outside the system, says labor writer Hamilton Nolan.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Jul 4, 2022
The city awarded a commission for a permanent statue to Wesley Wofford, who designed a traveling memorial that had graced City Hall. Local artists, many Black, argued that the call wasn't fair and open.
Source: Washington Post
Jul 3, 2022
by Gillian Brockell
A university task force convened last year to investigate the provenance of human remains in Harvard's museums and collections condemned the leak of the report while defending their committee's work toward returning remains to appropriate tribal authorities and memorializing the deceased.
Source: Texas Tribune
Jun 30, 2022
A working group proposed the change for second grade social studies to the Texas State Board of Education under the shadow of legal jeopardy educators and school systems face under a new law that makes it unclear how the subject of slavery can be taught.
Source: The Atlantic
Jun 29, 2022
Maligned in the aftermath of the Haitian revolution, Vodou has since been blamed for the alleged barbarism of Haitian people and the poverty of the nation. A new generation of practitioners wants to recover the tradition and clear its name.
Source: ProPublica
Jun 29, 2022
The Idaho Freedom Foundation has lobbied state legislators to use the leverage of the higher education budget to attack everything from diversity-related courses to affirmative action to an indigenous land acknowledgement in Boise State's virtual commencement.
