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: Deadline
12/12/2020
Charlie Pride was the first Black performer inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and is one of three Black members of the Grand Ole Opry.
Source: Deadline
12/12/2020
The famed New York establishment may not survive the coronavirus pandemic.
Source: New York Post
12/12/2020
The 84 year-old reptile will be stuffed and displayed in Moscow after traveling from Mississippi to Berlin and being gifted to Russia by British troops after the capture of Berlin in 1945.
Source: The Guardian
12/12/2020
The MP, an advocate for Brexit and a harsh critic of Black Lives Matter protests, now faces criticism over the centrality of Caribbean slavery to his family's vast fortune.
Source: US News and World Report
12/12/2020
The Mississippi home where civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in 1963 has been declared a national monument.
Source: New York Times
12/11/2020
The FBI announced that a Virginia software developer led a successful effort to solve a coded message created by the notorious Bay Area serial killer.
Source: USA Today
12/10/2020
"Claiming 'the last thing we need is to further divide an already divided nation,' Lee blocked proposals to establish the National Museum of the American Latino and the American Women's History Museum."
Source: Nashville Scene
12/10/2020
Musician and historian Tiffany Minton's new oral history project tackles the stereotype of the Nashville session musician – the backbone of the city's recording industry – as a white guy.
Source: Washington Post
12/9/2020
Joe Biden will not enjoy the solid support from Catholic Americans that JFK did. But his presidency may force the Church into necessary consideration of its public priorities.
Source: Variety
12/9/2020
While generally disapproved in polite company, swear words are a powerful and entrenched aspect of language around the world. Nic Cage will host a series examining their historical origins and use.
Source: Texas Observer
12/8/2020
As with social studies, sex education in Texas has been subject to the control of social conservatives in positions of power in the state's educational establishment, demonstrating how the movement has shaped textbooks and curriculum for a generation. This may gradually be changing.
Source: New York Times
12/5/2020
Middle Collegiate Church was a beacon of inclusion and tolerance for its congregants and the surrounding community. The damaged building was 128 years old, but the congregation originated before the American Revolution.
Source: Curbed
12/9/2020
The current owners of the former Trump family home in Queens set up a GoFundMe to allow supporters to purchase the property at $3 million to give to Trump as a legacy project. So far it has raised $125.
Source: Winston-Salem Journal
12/4/2020
A collection of links to audio or video of some of the most important speeches of the Civil Rights Era.
Source: Popular Mechanics
12/4/2020
The Royal Navy identified the mine as a German device dating to the World War II era and detonated it underwater.
Source: Wall Street Journal
12/6/2020
College administrators have invoked financial exigency to make radical revisions to the tenure protections enjoyed by faculty and diminish the faculty role in campus governance. The American Association of University Professors calls it a crisis.
Source: Haaretz
12/6/2020
The annual Hanukkah concert at the Royal Concert Hall in Amsterdam resumed in 2015 after a hiatus that began with Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Many Dutch Jews hope that the event will support unity in a community that is diverse in terms of observance and smaller in number than it was in 1946.
Source: Algemeiner
12/6/2020
Two cases test the doctrine of foreign sovereign immunity to determine whether U.S. courts have jurisdiction to return works of art to heirs of Jewish art dealers dispossessed by Nazis in 1935.
Source: New York Post
12/6/2020
Unexploded munitions from war pose a potentially serious threat to the public, as a construction crew in Frankfurt discovered recently.
Source: Worcester (MA) Telegram and Gazette
12/7/2020
A series of accidents allowed a P-40 fighter plane to survive the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; after crashing in service a month later, the plane lay on a Hawaiian mountainside until 1985, when it was restored to flight condition using parts from other planes. It is now an attraction at the American Heritage Museum in Hudson, Massachusetts.
