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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.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  1/24/2022
  

  How the Pandemic and Anti-Asian Violence Spurred 2 States to Change History Lessons

  The introduction of requirements to teach the history of Asian Americans is bumping up against laws in other states that would make it difficult for teachers to address topics like violence, immigration restrictions, and internment. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/23/2022
  

  Is Old Music Killing New Music?

  by Ted Gioia

  The growth in sales in music is coming overwhelmingly from old songs. Can the music industry sustain new performers if money keeps flowing to old catalogues? 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  1/24/2022
  

  Will SCOTUS Take the Opportunity to Ban Race-Conscious Admissions?

  A veteran higher education lawyer says that dire predictions that the Supreme Court will ban race-based affirmative action in admissions; narrowly-tailored diversity initiatives may survive despite the court's broad conservative majority. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/24/2022
  

  One National Republican Wants (Narrow) Action to Tighten up Electoral Count Act

  Former Congressman Zach Wamp (R-TN) says that the 1887 Electoral Count Act needs to be revised to take away an opening one party could use to contest election results. 

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• SOURCE: The Economist
  1/24/2022
  

  New Film "Munich" Offers Revised and (Somewhat) Sympathetic Portrait of Chamberlain

  The film portrays Chamberlain as less weak-willed and more overconfident in his ability to secure peace. 

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• SOURCE: Forward
  1/22/2022
  

  Israeli Documentary Works to Break Silence over 1948 Israeli-Arab Violence

  Director Alon Schwartz examines the events in the town of Tantura, where an Israeli militia is alleged to have killed 200 Arab residents. Oral history interviews with surviving members of the militia are key, but controversial, pieces of evidence.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  1/24/2022
  

  A Complete List of Times RFK Jr. has Compared Vaccine Mandates to the Holocaust

  The political activist has made a habit of comparing public policies he dislikes to the Holocaust, most recently in a speech at a Washington rally where he invoked Anne Frank. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  1/22/2022
  

  New Documentary on 1996 De La Hoya vs. Chavez Fight Digs Into Complexity of Mexican Ethnicity Across the Border

  Director Eva Longoria Bastón's documentary on the 1996 match between Mexican champion Julio César Chávez and LA-born Oscar De La Hoya examines how the fight revealed tensions between Mexican and Mexican-American communities expressed in citizenship, language and sports allegiance.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  1/24/2022
  

  Florida Judge (Mostly) Sides with Faculty in UF Speech Dispute

  Judge Mark E. Walker compared the university's restriction of faculty testimony as expert witnesses in cases involving voting rights and mask mandates to the recent crackdowns by Hong Kong's pro-Beijing government. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  1/18/2022
  

  Columbia Has Lost Its Way

  The university's negotiations with its graduate student workers' union show an institution organized around the values of a corporation. 

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  1/24/2022
  

  The Rise and Fall of Jerry Falwell Jr. at Liberty U.

  The ousted leader speaks to reporter Gabriel Sherman about the scandal and meltdown that ended his leadership of an evangelical empire. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/21/2022
  

  Biden Defends Bull Connor Analogy for Opponents of Voting Rights Bill

  Eddie Glaude, chair of African American Studies at Princeton, called the outrage over the analogy a "disingenuous" reflection of Republicans' concern for being called racist exceeding their concern for racist practices. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/20/2022
  

  Museum of Natural History in New York Removes Theodore Roosevelt Statue

  While Roosevelt's support of natural history has been noted, museum officials acknowledged that the statue "communicates a racial hierarchy" that constitutes a darker side of the former president's legacy.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/20/2022
  

  Another Hendrix Legacy Lawsuit: Family Seeks to Block Royalty Claim by Heirs of Bandmates

  Lawyers for the Hendrix family argued that a suit for back royalties by the heirs of Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell were invalid because of waivers signed by the guitarist's British bandmates soon after his 1970 death. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/17/2022
  

  A Texas-Born Princess and Former Scandalous Washington Wife May Lose Roman Villa in Epic Inheritance Fight

  Princess Rita Boncompagni-Ludovisi, born Rita Carpenter, the former wife of Congressman John Jenrette, has worked for 19 years to make Rome's Villa Aurora accessible to scholars. 

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• SOURCE: Forward
  1/17/2022
  

  Will SCOTUS Uphold Claim of Heirs for Return of Pissarro Painting Stolen by Nazis?

  Lower courts have agreed with the Spanish government that US courts are not empowered to adjudicate claims of looted art; if the Supreme Court agrees it could chill further attempts to use American law to return artworks stolen from Europe's Jews by the Nazis. 

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• SOURCE: Times of Israel
  1/18/2021
  

  Outcry over Sparse Representation of Jews in Movie History at New Academy Museum in Hollywood

  The contributions of Jewish pioneers of film seem oddly invisible in the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures; some prominent donors hope this changes.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  1/16/2022
  

  60 Minutes Report: Who Betrayed Anne Frank?

  While investigators believe they have identified the person who revealed the Frank's hiding place to the Nazi occupiers of Amsterdam, the revelation opens, rather than closes, questions of responsibility and community obligations.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  1/14/2022
  

  Rev. William Barber II: Voting Rights Not Just a Black Issue

  "America’s memory of Jim Crow has been distorted by a political culture that pays lip service to Dr. King while forgetting his vision of a democracy that works for all Americans."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/17/2022
  

  Manchin and Sinema are Fulfilling John Roberts's Vision

  by Ronald Brownstein

  "Roberts, who served as a young clerk to conservative Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist and as a Justice Department assistant in the Reagan administration, has long expressed hostility to federal oversight of voting and election rules."