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: CBS News
Apr 12, 2021
A marine scientist using a remote submarine camera recently discovered the visible portion of what may be as many as a half-million barrels of DDT dumped between Long Beach and Catalina Island when new environmental regulations banned the pesticide.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
Apr 12, 2021
While official state web pages have not posted such a proclamation, Governor Tate Reeves has apparently signed a proclamation again declaring April Confederate Heritage Month, as posted on the Facebook page of the Sons of Confederate Veterans of Rankin County, MS. Writer Donna Ladd says Reeves' proclamation equates the Union and Confederate causes in the Civil War.
Source: BBC
Apr 12, 2021
Opposition to requiring documentary proof of vaccination to participate in some activities is rooted both in the weak traditions of public health in the United States and legitimate fears that such "passports" will work to disadvantage the poor, minorities, and others who are less able to access vaccination.
Source: New York Times
Apr 11, 2021
The Temporary Protected Status designation, which has allowed hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States, originated because of the massive human rights abuses of the US-supported dictatorship in El Salvador.
Source: Insider
Apr 11, 2021
An ongoing volunteer project seeks to fill in the gaps in the online encyclopedia by researching and writing entries about women and women's history.
Source: WCNC
Apr 11, 2021
Political scientist Scott Huffman says that despite claims of fraudulent voting, democracy has historically and recently been threatened more by efforts to restrict the vote.
Source: New York Times
Apr 10, 2021
Marshal Sahlins was an innovator in the practice of campus "teach-ins," developed as a way for he and colleagues to protest the war in Vietnam without disengaging from contact with their students.
Source: New York Times
Apr 10, 2021
Ramsey Clark's tenure as Attorney General saw the aggressive enforcement of civil rights law; his liberalism strained his relationship with Lyndon Johnson, who blamed Clark in part for energizing the "silent majority" that led Richard Nixon to victory. He continued in private life to represent unpopular defendants and oppose American militarism.
Source: CBS News
Apr 9, 2021
The Biden Administration signaled its openness to a commission to study reparations to African Americans; a bill sponsored by US Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee to do that will have a vote in the Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
Source: WWLTV
Apr 9, 2021
The chair was recovered in New Orleans, and two suspects have been arrested with a third at large.
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
Apr 8, 2021
The imperatives of historic preservation are often at cross-purposes with the goals of community organizations. Does the failure of one preservation plan in Chicago offer lessons for the future?
Source: Washington Post
Apr 8, 2021
"We are leaderless in a sense. There is no head honcho, and we keep it that way for a very good reason."
Source: New York Times
Apr 8, 2021
"In this case, officials said the reckoning had gone too far, with parents calling the decision to rename 44 schools embarrassing and 'a caricature of what people think liberals in San Francisco do'.”
Source: The Atlantic
Apr 8, 2021
Fred Wertheimer has been battling the influence of money in politics since the 1970s. Writer George Packer asks if, at age 82, he will finally match his ideas to the political moment.
Source: TIME
Apr 7, 2021
The reboot of the 1970s series reflects a history of activism by Asian Americans for greater representation and control of their image in popular culture.
Source: UVA Today
Apr 7, 2021
"We know so much about Jefferson – we even know what he ate on July 3, 1803 – but he and all those at UVA were surrounded for over 65 years by a community of more than 4,000 people that we know little about."
Source: NPR
Apr 7, 2021
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released its ten-year updates to its "normal" temperature standards. Based on 30 years of data, higher temperatures are indeed "the new normal."
Source: New York Times
Apr 6, 2021
The atrocities documented in Raoul Peck's HBO film series on colonization of the western hemisphere are not news. That's part of what fuels the anger driving the film.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 6, 2021
The group claiming responsibility has issued a ransom demand: the United Daughters of the Confederacy can secure the return of the chair by flying a banner quoting Black radical Assata Shakur over its Richmond, Virginia headquarters.
Source: New York Times
Apr 6, 2021
Political scientist Robert Pape's work suggests that the prime driver of participation in the Capitol Riots was a sense that the election result reflected a threat to the power and influence of whites in American culture, with familiar echoes to racist and nativist movements of the past.
