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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: Texas Tribune
  6/30/2022
  

  One Absurdity of Texas's Divisive Concepts Law? Call to Rename Slave Trade as "Involuntary Relocation"

  A working group proposed the change for second grade social studies to the Texas State Board of Education under the shadow of legal jeopardy educators and school systems face under a new law that makes it unclear how the subject of slavery can be taught.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/28/2022
  

  3 Law Profs: Connecting Abortion and Voting Rights at SCOTUS

  by Leah Litman, Melissa Murray and Kate Shaw

  The Supreme Court has turned reproductive freedom over to state elected officials who are increasingly unaccountable to the public because of the Court's decisions eviscerating the Voting Rights Act. 

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• SOURCE: ProPublica
  6/29/2022
  

  The Other Cancel Culture: A University Administration Caves to a Conservative Crusade

  The Idaho Freedom Foundation has lobbied state legislators to use the leverage of the higher education budget to attack everything from diversity-related courses to affirmative action to an indigenous land acknowledgement in Boise State's virtual commencement.

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  6/29/2022
  

  Unserved Warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham's Arrest in Till Lynching Discovered in Box in Courthouse Basement

  The 1955 document demonstrates that the authorities in Leflore County believed that Donham, for whose honor the lynching was allegedly carried out, was present for the teenager's abduction, torture, or murder. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  6/27/2022
  

  1989-2001: America's "Lost Weekend" When the Nation Blew its Shot at Peace and Prosperity

  How did the United States go from victory in the Cold War and an economic boom to the brink of collapse? A decade of political rhetoric denying any useful role for government was a factor. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  6/22/2022
  

  Before the Tragedy, Uvalde Was the Site of a Major School Walkout. Will That History Be Lost?

  In 1970, ethnic Mexican students at Uvalde High School staged a six-week school boycott to protest persistent segregation and pervasive disrespect from teachers and administrators. 

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  6/23/2022
  

  Preserving Local History in Water Valley, Mississippi

  "We always hear about important figures like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but I wanted to know about the heroes here in Yalobusha County.”

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  6/25/2022
  

  The Belated Return of Lumumba's Tooth Shows the Tenacity of Colonialism

  "The only reason that can be offered for keeping a man’s tooth for 61 years knowing that it was obtained through torture and murder is that the cruelty is the point. Colonisation was, after all, a projection of power through cruelty, rationalised by pseudo-intellectual arguments about racial superiority and difference."

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  6/27/2022
  

  The Labor Upsurge Calls Us to Rethink Organizing Rules

  by Chris Brooks

  Do the successes of organizers at Amazon and Starbucks mean the age of slow, methodical and gradual organizing is over? Can workers use a union vote itself as an organizing tool to move quickly and defeat union-busting? 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/24/2022
  

  What SCOTUS's Guns Ruling Means for New York

  Researchers suggest that the recently overturned New York state law did make residents significantly safer – from gun suicides – when it was passed more than a century ago. 

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• SOURCE: London Review of Books
  6/9/2022
  

  The Enduring Appeal of the BBC's "Desert Island Discs" – the Longest Running Interview Show

  The famous and would-be famous have faced the dilemma of telling the world about themselves by listing the records (and luxury items) they'd want with them on a desert island; post-1951 episodes are now available as podcasts.

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• SOURCE: ProPublica
  6/16/2022
  

  White Conservative Parents Got an Educator Fired, then Chased Her to Her Next Job

  Cecelia Lewis was hired as a Georgia school district's first Diversity, Equity and Inclusion administrator. A national organization helped local parents get her fired. 

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• SOURCE: Scalawag
  6/14/2022
  

  Teaching Black History in Virginia Just Got Tougher

  Glenn Youngkin's attack on "divisive" history lessons clearly put the wishes of conservative whites at the center of the debate about curriculum. Now, a planned change to increase Black history in Virginia schools is on hold and Black students and families ask why their concerns are unheard. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  6/14/2022
  

  If Ending Roe Isn't Enough, SCOTUS May Blow Up the Regulatory State

  The court could decide that Congress must explicitly define the rules of regulations it passes, which could make things like environmental protection law burdensome or impossible to enforce and effectively cripple federal regulations. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/9/2022
  

  "All the President's Men": From Misguided Buddy Flick to Iconic Political Thriller

  Hollywood's original plan for the film based on Woodward and Bernstein's book was light on substance and heavy on macho hijinks. How would Watergate be remembered if the script weren't changed? 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/8/2022
  

  Anti-Sweatshop Crusader Charles Kernaghan, 74

  Kernaghan waged war against the dark side of free trade: the ruthless exploitation of workers in overseas factories. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6/11/2022
  

  Milbank Memorial Fund Apologizes for Role in Tuskegee Syphilis Study

  The Milbank Memorial Fund donated pittances to the families of Black men who died of untreated syphilis with a grotesque condition: families had to agree to intrusive autopsies to gather information about the effects of the disease.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/14/2022
  

  Prosecutor: The Two-Prong Test that Could Determine Trump's Legal Risk

  Isaac Chotiner interviews former federal prosecutor and current law professor Barbara McQuade about the prospects of a criminal case against Trump over January 6. 

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• SOURCE: HuffPost
  6/13/2022
  

  The Families of Victims of Anti-Abortion Violence Face a Post-Roe World

  The antiabortion movement has always included a violent, terroristic element. How will the pending Supreme Court decision influence its possible revival? 

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  6/13/2022
  

  Robert Kuttner: If Dems Don't Go Big, Country May Go Fascist

  If the United States was lucky to avoid a fascist takeover in the 1930s, the country made much of its own luck through the New Deal.