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 Times
12/20/2020
Prominent public thinkers recommend books to President-Elect Joe Biden to inform his domestic and foreign policy positions.
Source: Washington Post
12/18/2020
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: Washington Post
12/15/2020
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
12/15/2020
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
12/15/2020
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
12/15/2020
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: Washington Post
12/16/2020
A North Carolina State Senator suggested Trump would be justified in using the military to prevent the validation of Joe Biden's election.
Source: Bill Moyers
12/15/2020
A small-town voter drive reveals why only trusted family, friends and local leaders can boost turnout in the Senate runoffs.
Source: NPR
12/14/2020
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: New York Times
12/16/2020
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: ESPN
12/14/2020
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: Smithsonian
12/8/2020
This month, women war industry workers from the World War II era were collectively awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, an honor a dwindling number have survived to enjoy.
Source: Washington Post
12/14/2020
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
12/14/2020
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
12/13/2020
“Oh no!” Trump tweeted. “What is going on? This is not good news, even for ‘Indians’. Cancel culture at work!”
Source: New York Times
12/12/2020
A new Israeli television series represents one of the nation's few high-profile examinations of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and examines the toll of trauma on veterans.
Source: New York Times
12/9/2020
Locked-down Britons have unearthed many potentially valuable objects both modern and ancient, prompting consideration of expanding a law that would enable museums to claim such objects after compensating the finder.
Source: Hyperallergic
12/9/2020
Artist Reggie Black is projecting a message about the history of slavery in New York City on the façade of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Manhattan, where six people were enslaved.
Source: Washington Post
12/11/2020
Gloria Richardson remains a fierce advocate for racial justice and a proponent of disrupting the status quo decades after being photographed pushing aside a National Guardsman's bayonet during protests in Cambridge, Maryland.
Source: Seattle Times
12/13/2020
A 1984 speculative article was prescient about environmental and economic developments in greater Seattle.
