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: Syracuse.com
Jan 22, 2016
After weeks of criticism in the national spotlight, an Upstate New York village has decided to change their official seal.
Source: NPR
Jan 21, 2016
All across the country, people are re-creating, reinterpreting, acting out history in some way.
Source: The Economist
Jan 21, 2016
It’s deja vu all over again, only this time Russia’s not turning westward.
Source: NYT
Jan 21, 2016
More than 140 bones and bone fragments were found at the site last summer by archaeologists under contract to the New York City Economic Development Corporation.
Source: The Conversation
Jan 21, 2016
The Trump family fortune was based on subsidized federal housing that excluded blacks.
Source: eonline
Jan 21, 2016
"Just like there shouldn't be a Black History Month. You know? We're Americans. Period. That's it."
Source: Portside
Jan 20, 2016
A children's book showing happy slaves in the South was pulled off the market last weekend after a major controversy about its contents.
Source: NYT
Jan 20, 2016
A dig in Kenya has uncovered the remains of a slaughter from 10,000 years ago, suggesting that warfare may have existed even before humans began agriculture.
Source: Time Magazine
Jan 20, 2016
The legal standard that allows such cases is less than a decade old.
Source: ARCA blog
Jan 20, 2016
The monastery known in English as the Saint Elijah Monastery or the Dair Mar Elia, ((دير مار إيليا) has been obliterated by ISIS/ISIL sometime prior to September 28, 2014.
Source: Politico
Jan 20, 2016
The library is set to make public nearly 500 pages of records pertaining to Trump, detailing the Clinton White House's interactions with Trump and his Trump Organization, as well as how Clinton aides prepared to field questions about Trump's entry into the 2000 presidential race.
Source: The Washington Post
Jan 19, 2016
GM introduced lead into gasoline. The Flint River was where lead in cars wound up.
Source: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Jan 18, 2016
by Gavan McCormack
The year 2016 might turn out to be a decisive one in the long-running contest between the Japanese state and Okinawa prefecture over the construction of a new base for the US.
Source: Politico
Jan 18, 2016
Two new documents reveal the political blueprint the billionaire developed 40 years ago, heavily influenced by the ultraconservative John Birch Society.
Source: Oregon Live
Jan 18, 2016
It’s not what you think it is.
Source: CBC News
Jan 18, 2016
City officials launched campaign to condemn buildings, says University of Victoria professor
Source: KFOR
Jan 18, 2016
It was August 19, 1958 when a group of children in Oklahoma City walked into Katz Drugstore, sat down at the lunch counter and asked for service.
Source: Rasmussen Reports
Jan 18, 2016
Views of Martin Luther King Jr. Day haven’t changed, but even after seven years of having the first black president in office, Americans are more dubious than ever that King’s dream of equal opportunity has been achieved. Blacks are the most skeptical.
Source: The Daily Beast
Jan 17, 2016
French researchers have uncovered secret love letters between Marie Antoinette and a Swedish count. A new book suggests the doomed queen may have borne his children.
Source: Afflict the Comfortable (blog)
Jan 15, 2016
by Robert Buzzanco
Get your “I Have a Dream” fortune told at a 1-800 number; make a cake with “Batter from a Birmingham Jail”; drink an “I’ve Been to the Mountain Dew Top.”
