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: Mississippi Free Press
Jun 29, 2022
The 1955 document demonstrates that the authorities in Leflore County believed that Donham, for whose honor the lynching was allegedly carried out, was present for the teenager's abduction, torture, or murder.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 28, 2022
by Leah Litman, Melissa Murray and Kate Shaw
The Supreme Court has turned reproductive freedom over to state elected officials who are increasingly unaccountable to the public because of the Court's decisions eviscerating the Voting Rights Act.
Source: The New Republic
Jun 27, 2022
How did the United States go from victory in the Cold War and an economic boom to the brink of collapse? A decade of political rhetoric denying any useful role for government was a factor.
Source: Jacobin
Jun 27, 2022
by Chris Brooks
Do the successes of organizers at Amazon and Starbucks mean the age of slow, methodical and gradual organizing is over? Can workers use a union vote itself as an organizing tool to move quickly and defeat union-busting?
Source: Seattle Times
Jun 26, 2022
“The shameful legacy of the real John James Audubon, not the mythologized version, is antithetical to the mission of this organization and its values,” said Claire Catania, executive director of the Seattle chapter, in a statement.
Source: Al Jazeera
Jun 25, 2022
"The only reason that can be offered for keeping a man’s tooth for 61 years knowing that it was obtained through torture and murder is that the cruelty is the point. Colonisation was, after all, a projection of power through cruelty, rationalised by pseudo-intellectual arguments about racial superiority and difference."
Source: The New Yorker
Jun 24, 2022
Researchers suggest that the recently overturned New York state law did make residents significantly safer – from gun suicides – when it was passed more than a century ago.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
Jun 23, 2022
"We always hear about important figures like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but I wanted to know about the heroes here in Yalobusha County.”
Source: Tampa Bay Times
Jun 22, 2022
"The governor did not name specific state universities or colleges with this problem. He was broad in his accusations about the higher education system and used vague anecdotes to justify the need for such a survey."
Source: Texas Tribune
Jun 22, 2022
In 1970, ethnic Mexican students at Uvalde High School staged a six-week school boycott to protest persistent segregation and pervasive disrespect from teachers and administrators.
Source: ProPublica
Jun 16, 2022
Cecelia Lewis was hired as a Georgia school district's first Diversity, Equity and Inclusion administrator. A national organization helped local parents get her fired.
Source: Scalawag
Jun 14, 2022
Glenn Youngkin's attack on "divisive" history lessons clearly put the wishes of conservative whites at the center of the debate about curriculum. Now, a planned change to increase Black history in Virginia schools is on hold and Black students and families ask why their concerns are unheard.
Source: Politico
Jun 14, 2022
The court could decide that Congress must explicitly define the rules of regulations it passes, which could make things like environmental protection law burdensome or impossible to enforce and effectively cripple federal regulations.
Source: The New Yorker
Jun 14, 2022
Isaac Chotiner interviews former federal prosecutor and current law professor Barbara McQuade about the prospects of a criminal case against Trump over January 6.
Source: HuffPost
Jun 13, 2022
The antiabortion movement has always included a violent, terroristic element. How will the pending Supreme Court decision influence its possible revival?
Source: The Intercept
Jun 13, 2022
If the United States was lucky to avoid a fascist takeover in the 1930s, the country made much of its own luck through the New Deal.
Source: NPR
Jun 11, 2022
The Milbank Memorial Fund donated pittances to the families of Black men who died of untreated syphilis with a grotesque condition: families had to agree to intrusive autopsies to gather information about the effects of the disease.
Source: London Review of Books
Jun 9, 2022
The famous and would-be famous have faced the dilemma of telling the world about themselves by listing the records (and luxury items) they'd want with them on a desert island; post-1951 episodes are now available as podcasts.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 9, 2022
Hollywood's original plan for the film based on Woodward and Bernstein's book was light on substance and heavy on macho hijinks. How would Watergate be remembered if the script weren't changed?
Source: The Baffler
Jun 9, 2022
by Kathryn Judge
The internet's promise to cut out any number of middlemen from the consumer experience has been a failure.
