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: Forward
Oct 14, 2021
"For all the reams that have been written about the band in recent decades, nothing has so succinctly dissected the Velvet Underground's dark magic as Haynes’ new documentary."
Source: Texas Monthly
Oct 14, 2021
"The threat the loud and the angry pose isn’t necessarily that they win outright but that they tire others out—that they make public service too burdensome, too painful, too tedious."
Source: New York Times
Oct 13, 2021
"The long delay in disclosing these emails, coupled with their conversational nature, suggests that others in the N.F.L. are, at best, tolerant of these divisive views. At worst, they share them."
Source: University of Virginia Batten School
Oct 11, 2021
Empirical research supports what activists have been saying for decades: Confederate memorials encourage violence in the name of white supremacy.
Source: NextCity
Oct 11, 2021
"'Our society is structured around white supremacy,' Philadelphia Planning Commission head Eleanor Sharpe says. 'It’s not a debate, but there’s this fear to acknowledge it. That fear serves the retention of the systems that are not working'."
Source: New York Magazine
Oct 10, 2021
Joe Biden must have expected unified Republican opposition and betrayal by Democratic moderates, but probably not so quickly.
Source: Washington Post
Oct 10, 2021
“We enroll lots of people whose ancestors were enslaved, were marginalized, were clearly taken advantage of,” said Glenn DuBois, the system’s chancellor. “And what do you say to those students when they’re looking at some of these names?”
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Oct 10, 2021
Many Latvians today insist that their nation was a victim of Nazi aggression, rather than complicitous in antisemitic atrocities.
Source: Out In Jersey
Oct 10, 2021
A new documentary revisits the period before the American Psychological Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in 1973, and psychiatry endorsed extreme measures to "cure" same-sex attraction.
Source: NPR
Oct 10, 2021
"Throughout its history, the party has featured dissent and even radical differences of viewpoint. It has been defined by these internal contrasts and conflicts as often as by its achievements."
Source: NPR
Oct 10, 2021
The historic Bruce's Beach case is inspiring social justice leaders and reparations activists to fight for other Black families whose ancestors were also victims of land theft in the United States.
Source: New York Times
Oct 9, 2021
Spain's Popular Party condemned Pope Francis's recent call for Catholics in Mexico to revisit the nation's history to consider indigenous conquest.
Source: Forward
Oct 7, 2021
"In addition to providing historical context, the digitized edition delves into the material details of the manuscripts, from the writing materials Frank used to the annotations and photographs she added to her diary."
Source: New York Times
Oct 6, 2021
Russian Jews who were subjected to the brutal siege of Leningrad, and subjected to Nazi propaganda that encouraged other Russians to blame them for the city's suffering, are among those offered new pensions.
Source: New York Times
Oct 6, 2021
The Chicago White Sox have returned to the baseball postseason in part because of their core of players from Latin America, which has long been a trademark of the club.
Source: New York Times
Oct 6, 2021
"Pennsylvania does not have a law banning critical race theory from schools, at least not yet. In states where Republican governors have signed legislation banning critical race theory, books are disappearing from shelves."
Source: New York Times
Oct 5, 2021
“I grew up with war stories from my grandparents’ generation,” said Andrej Umansky, a German historian with Ukrainian ancestry working for the private initiative, the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. “But students today don’t have the same connection.... To talk about the Holocaust is the same as talking about ancient Rome.”
Source: New York Times
Oct 5, 2021
Alleged antiquities looter Douglas Latchford died before trial on charges of illicit trafficking of Khmer artifacts. Efforts to repatriate them have been stymied by a system of offshore trusts used by the global rich to shield assets from taxation and hide criminal activity.
Source: New York Magazine
Oct 4, 2021
Encouraged by Rudy Giuliani, thousands of New York City Police officers, some drunk, staged a riot at City Hall and on the Brooklyn Bridge to protest Mayor David Dinkins's 1992 proposal of an all-civilian, independent police complaint review board. Why has this pivotal event been scrubbed from many New Yorkers' memories?
Source: New York Times
Oct 4, 2021
by Michael Posner
"The plight of the Haitians has been further complicated by decades of misrule, corruption and brutality by a series of Haitian governments that received steady U.S. financial and political support despite egregious records on human rights."
