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: Washington Post
Dec 20, 2020
COVID forced a fast shift to video chat to record interviews with Holocaust survivors for the US Holocaust Museum's oral history project.
Source: Kansas City Star
Dec 20, 2020
The Kansas City Star begins a series reckoning with its failures to cover local protests for civil rights.
Source: New York Times
Dec 20, 2020
Prominent public thinkers recommend books to President-Elect Joe Biden to inform his domestic and foreign policy positions.
Source: CNN
Dec 19, 2020
The now-classic movie was unsuccessful in its own time, perhaps because its expression of the uncertainty and fatigue of a nation emerging from a global war was not an upbeat or enjoyable theme.
Source: New York Times
Dec 19, 2020
Jean Graetz, one of the few white supporters of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, passed away at age 90.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 18, 2020
Enrique Tarrio claims that his destruction of the banner was not motivated by racial bigotry but by the supposed terrorization of the nation by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Source: The Art Newspaper
Dec 17, 2020
The bill under consideration would compel France to return artifacts plundered from Benin and Senegal in the 1890s.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 16, 2020
A North Carolina State Senator suggested Trump would be justified in using the military to prevent the validation of Joe Biden's election.
Source: New York Times
Dec 16, 2020
Major League Baseball will include player statistics from the seven African American baseball leagues operating between 1920 and 1948 in the major league record books in recognition of the quality of play and the opportunity denied the best Black players in the game's segregated era.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 15, 2020
James Flug, an aide to Senator Ted Kennedy, played a significant role in Senate investigations and in the successful political opposition to Richard Nixon's Supreme Court nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell.
Source: Forward
Dec 15, 2020
A Florida Holocaust museum's decision to feature an exhibition of photographs taken during recent protests over police killings of Black Americans raised questions about the museum's mission and whether the Holocaust can be remembered and its victims honored by comparing the genocide of European Jews to other instances of systemic racism.
Source: Paste
Dec 15, 2020
Documentaries on the memory of the Civil War and the beginnings of the disability movement are among Paste's best of the year.
Source: Forward
Dec 15, 2020
Attorney John Howard Steele was a devoted client of Joseph Pilates' fitness methods, and became responsible for safeguarding the integrity of the method as it grew into a global exercise phenomenon.
Source: Bill Moyers
Dec 15, 2020
A small-town voter drive reveals why only trusted family, friends and local leaders can boost turnout in the Senate runoffs.
Source: NPR
Dec 14, 2020
Zora Neale Hurston was the most famous resident of Eatonville, Florida, but Ella Augusta Johnson Dinkins spent decades organizing and building the town, then fighting to preserve the historical legacy of African American towns from the post-Reconstruction era.
Source: ESPN
Dec 14, 2020
Revisiting the negotiations that brought a 13 year-old Argentine soccer prodigy to Barcelona and launched the career of (arguably!) the greatest player of the world's game.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 14, 2020
A small Minnesota town has approved the use of a church building to house a neopaganist group strongly associated with white supremacy, arguing that they would be exposed to an expensive legal action if they denied the permit. This is part of a long pattern of similar First Amendment cases.
Source: New York Times
Dec 14, 2020
William Barr disappointed both those who expected him to support the traditional independence of the Justice Department and Donald Trump, who expected him to use the full power of the DOJ to attack Joe Biden and his family.
Source: New York Times
Dec 13, 2020
“Oh no!” Trump tweeted. “What is going on? This is not good news, even for ‘Indians’. Cancel culture at work!”
Source: Seattle Times
Dec 13, 2020
A 1984 speculative article was prescient about environmental and economic developments in greater Seattle.
