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: KRDO
May 25, 2021
A Welsh couple has undertaken the repair and refurbishment of a 72-foot Royal Navy harbor defense vessel.
Source: CNN
May 25, 2021
President Joe Biden will visit Tulsa, Oklahoma, next week in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre, the White House announced on Tuesday.
Source: New York Times
May 25, 2021
"A trove of Brontë family manuscripts — all but unseen for a century — will be auctioned by Sotheby’s as part of what the auction house is billing as the sale of a legendary “lost library” of British literature treasures."
Source: The New Republic
May 25, 2021
Patrick Blanchfield reviews "Tangled Up In Blue," Rosa Brooks's account of joining the DC Police Reserve Corps and meditation on the role of policing in society.
Source: New York Times
May 24, 2021
"Piecing together archival maps and photographs, with guidance from historians, The New York Times constructed a 3D model of the Greenwood neighborhood as it was before the destruction."
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
May 24, 2021
An incident in which a conservative student was allegedly subjected to ideological bullying and harassment was used as a pretext to cancel a set of courses addressing diversity issues at Boise State University. An outside law firm's investigation found no evidence to substantiate the description of the incident.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
May 23, 2021
by Will Bunch
This week's controversy at UNC is only the latest chapter in a decades-long effort by the right to exert control over public universities.
Source: The Guardian
May 22, 2021
Historians are criticizing the Australian government's decision not to supply the funding the National Archives needs to digitize and preserve fragile and deteriorating documents, calling the "digital cliff" a potential national embarrassment.
Source: The Guardian
May 21, 2021
A generation of urban highway projects that advanced urban renewal and community displacement in the 1950s and 1960s are nearing obsolescence. Activists hope that the Biden infrastructure plan can replace roads and repair neighborhoods.
Source: NPR
May 20, 2021
"My dad began collecting in the early 1980s starting with baseball cards from 1957 and 1959 when he was ten to twelve years old," his son Stewart Newman said. "Those were replacements for the treasured cards of his youth that he kept in shoeboxes as a youngster and that his mom later threw out."
Source: Vox
May 20, 2021
South Carolina's proposed return to execution by firing squad reflects the facts that, while the Roberts Court is very protective of capital punishment, it is increasingly difficult for states to acquire the drugs needed to perform lethal injections. It remains to be seen if firing squads will turn public opinion against capital punishment.
Source: New York Times
May 20, 2021
University of Houston historian Raul Ramos calls political meddling with the history teaching "a recipe for disaster" in a state that is increasingly diverse and less accepting of the Texan mythologies favored by conservatives.
Source: NC Policy Watch
May 19, 2021
“This is a very political thing,” the trustee said. “The university and the board of trustees and the Board of Governors and the legislature have all been getting pressure since this thing was first announced last month. There have been people writing letters and making calls, for and against. But I will leave it to you which is carrying more weight.”
Source: Dissent
May 19, 2021
by Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill
"More than a year into a national reckoning over racism, two heroes in the struggle for racial justice have received little national attention. A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin were mentor and student, friends and colleagues—eventually, their relationship was like father and son."
Source: CSPAN
May 19, 2021
Watch the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee meeting on the Tulsa Race Massacre, which features the testimony of 107 year old Viola Fletcher, possibly the oldest survivor of the events of 1921.
Source: NPR
May 19, 2021
"I have been blessed with a long life and have seen the best and the worst of this country. I think about the terror inflicted upon black people in this country every day."
Source: New York Times
May 18, 2021
Researchers using digital enhancement have been able to identify some passengers filmed on a train transporting them to concentration camps; some of those identified are survivors.
Source: Baptist News
May 18, 2021
Many church denominations and denominational institutions like colleges and universities have been pushed to reckon with their past involvement in slavery and consider what obligations that confers on them in the present.
Source: The Guardian
May 18, 2021
"Dutch traders shipped over 600,000 Africans to north and South America and between 660,000 and 1.1 million people around the Indian ocean."
Source: The Baffler
May 17, 2021
by Noah Kulwin
Reviewer Noah Kulwin argues Malcolm Gladwell's book on the rise of American air power misrepresents the military history of World War II, wrongly elevates Curtis LeMay to the status of a heroic genius, and blithely passes over the vast carnage of incendiary and atomic bombings.
