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: OpenDemocracy
2/25/19
An award-winning African-American history scholar and author on uncovering the structural causes of food poverty.
Source: Hechinger Report
2/26/19
Nearly 70 percent of Mississippians failed test of basic knowledge of American history.
Source: UCLA Newsroom
2/25/19
With ‘Chocolate Cities,’ Marcus Hunter seeks to incite new understanding of the history of black life in America
Source: AP
2/22/19
Boston is taking a step toward recognizing the role slavery played at one of its most visited landmarks.
Source: Society for Classical Studies
2/21/19
"There’s an image of the monk-like individual in the ivory tower, and I wish now that I had realized how ineffective it was for me."
Source: Herald Mail Media
2/22/19
The project is a collaboration between Bankhurst and Roberts that aims to make the letters and petitions of British loyalists who fled the American Revolution housed in the British National Archives available in a digital archive.
Source: Chicago Tribune
2/25/19
“How to Hide an Empire” builds towards a single, reality-scrambling concept: that the familiar map of the United States you know, sea to shining sea, Atlantic to Pacific, Canada to Mexico, is wrong.
Source: The Cap Times
2/23/19
In his TED Talk and elsewhere, Twitty likes to say, “race is the illusion, food is the reality,” and there’s “no such thing as food without politics.”
Source: Washington Post
2/24/19
Eugene Williams Sr., with support from his wife Mary Johnson, is trying to convince NBA teams and schools nationwide to play “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” at games or events during Black History Month.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
2/21/19
#HATM (Historians at the Movies) and public engagement.
Source: Washington Post
2/17/19
Only about 18 percent of Wikipedia’s biographical articles are about women.
Source: The Guardian
2/16/19
Academics demand that producers ensure that dramas and documentaries credit their work
Source: Smithsonian.com
2/14/19
Through written content, podcasts, video broadcasts, and an app, the new North Star editorial team plans to explore issues of civil rights, human rights, and social justice in America and around the world.
Source: Tom Dispatch
2/19/19
by Stephanie Savell
In general, the American public has largely ignored these post-9/11 wars and their costs. But the vastness of Washington’s counterterror activities suggests, now more than ever, that it’s time to pay attention.
Source: Ruidoso News
2/14/19
Orozco is the author of "No Mexicans, Women or Dogs, the Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement," a history of the origins of LULAC.
Source: Diverse Education
2/17/19
The event included a panel with Jelani Cobb, Derek Musgrove, and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, among others.
Source: The Daily Californian
2/15/19
Although this humanities research project might read to many as a niche project in a small ethnic studies department, its cultural, political and technological implications loom large.
Source: NJ.com
2/16/19
If done right, New Jersey will help set the national agenda for teaching kids about gender and sexuality throughout history and across all subjects, exposing students to a past that’s largely been ignored.
Source: New Yorker
2/15/19
Why does America detain so many illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in the first place?
Source: Minnesota Public Radio
2/13/19
Thomas Jefferson said the press had become "servile to the government," Nickerson says, and newspapers were used as a vehicle for political organizing and advocacy.
