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: New York Historical Society
Jan 25, 2021
The Bonnie and Richard Reiss Graduate Institute for Constitutional History is pleased to announce its spring 2021 seminar for advanced graduate students and junior faculty: America’s Unregulated Police.
Source: New York Times
Jan 23, 2021
On the surface, Raphael Warnock's campaign ads featured a cute beagle. But they reflected a calculated – and successful – effort to counter racial dynamics in Georgia politics to bring about a historic victory.
Source: NPR
Jan 22, 2021
Historian Lloyd Washington has worked to raise awareness among younger African Americans of the 1919 song that has served as the official song of the NAACP and the unofficial "Black National Anthem," and credits Beyonce for a performance that introduced the BLM generation to the song.
Source: The Atlantic
Jan 22, 2021
Joe Biden's inaugural address won't be remembered as a masterpiece of rhetoric. But it succeeded in presenting an authentic and realistic picture of Biden's plans to lead the nation in crisis, argues The Atlantic writer.
Source: Facing South
Jan 22, 2021
Angie Maxwell emphasizes that the "Southern Strategy" was not a mechanical process of pandering to white Southerners' prejudices to swing them to the Republican Party. The process required building institutions and crafting political agendas and rhetoric over years.
Source: ESPN
Jan 22, 2021
by Howard Bryant
Hank Aaron biographer Howard Bryant shared common experiences with the baseball legend as a Black man in the sports industry. He writes about the legacy of the slugger who lived through the Jim Crow and civil rights eras and died at age 86 today.
Source: YouTube
Jan 22, 2021
The baseball Hall of Famer and one-time home run leader died at age 86 on January 22. Here, watch his record-breaking 715th home run, as announced by broadcasting legend Vin Scully.
Source: The Guardian
Jan 21, 2021
"Deborah Willis, the chair of photography at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, has curated Parks’s work in over 30 exhibitions. She says that the photographer was not only there to document everyday life during turmoil for many African Americans, but to give them hope."
Source: Smithsonian
Jan 21, 2021
For the first time, archaeologists at the Saqqara necropolis have excavated coffins, estimated at 3,000 years old.
Source: Smithsonian
Jan 21, 2021
Even before COVID-19 a combination of factors have made lesbian bars much less common than their counterparts catering to gay men. Two filmmakers are working to raise funds to keep these establishments in business. This article also explains how bars became safe gathering places as cities passed "vice" laws that subjected lesbians to police harassment in public.
Source: New York Times
Jan 21, 2021
People who lived through the 2017 white supremacist invasion of Charlottesville warn that there can't be any unity without accountability.
Source: Associated Press
Jan 21, 2021
"In documents announcing Biden’s executive order, administration officials said the panel sought to erase America’s history of racial injustice'."
Source: The Atlantic
Jan 21, 2021
by Ronald Brownstein
Joe Biden's inaugural address was the first since Lincoln's in 1861 that used the term "disunion," emphasizing the severity of America's political division and Biden's potential to create a political realignment around commitment to democracy and democratic culture.
Source: New York Times
Jan 19, 2021
"On a quiet block in downtown Brooklyn, a new photography exhibit — housed inside a senior living center — invites viewers to consider an essential question: How do we measure the emotional and social costs of discrimination?"
Source: Times of Israel
Jan 18, 2021
The contributions of Jewish pioneers of film seem oddly invisible in the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures; some prominent donors hope this changes.
Source: Foreign Policy
Jan 18, 2021
by Joel Rubin
A former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state argues that the threat of far-right political violence demands a stepped-up response from law enforcement.
Source: New York Times
Jan 18, 2021
James Grossman of the American Historical Association was one of the first of many historians to attack the 1776 Commission document as "cynical politics" and note that not one professional historian of the United States took part in crafting it.
Source: The Atlantic
Jan 17, 2021
A writer became the legally-designated recipient of his sister's remains after she was killed by Argentina's military dictatorship during the nation's Dirty War. The experience led him to confront how a society suppresses the knowledge of political violence.
Source: New York Times
Jan 17, 2021
Tom Lankford took many iconic photographs in Birmingham that publicized the cause of Civil Rights protestors. But he worked behind the scenes to cultivate relationships with the city's notorious Bull Connor to buttress the reputation of the police force while working with his publisher to squelch local demands for change that threatened the business community.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 17, 2021
Black business owners in the Greenwood district of Tulsa argue that the city's redevelopment plans for the area will erase the history of the 1921 race massacre, even as that history has begun to be recovered.
