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: The Guardian
11/15/2020
A legendary Jamaican cricketer and broadcaster has recently gone public to share his experiences of racism and support current protests for racial justice.
Source: New York Times
11/13/2020
Al Howard, a Black NYPD officer, was able to save Dr. King from a stabbing in a New York department store in 1958, potentially changing the course of history.
Source: New York Times
11/12/2020
"The series provides a steady succession of parallels between Reagan and Donald J. Trump, none labeled as such but all difficult to miss."
Source: New York Times
11/13/2020
by Jamelle Bouie
The Times Opinion columnist contents that the electoral college infects American politics with uncertainty and the multiple opportunities to contest the result. This not only is undemocratic, it undermines faith in democracy.
Source: Washington Post
11/12/2020
by Alexandra Petri
The Washington Post's house satirist gets medieval on the voter fraud allegations.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
11/12/2020
by F. King Alexander
Without additional stimulus, further state disinvestment is imminent, significantly limiting accessible and affordable educational opportunities for students across America.
Source: WBUR
11/11/2020
John "Chick" Donohue was in a bar in Inwood in upper Manhattan in 1967 when the bartender suggested the neighborhood's contingent of troops in Vietnam would appreciate a beer. He made the delivery. His new book explains how.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
11/9/2020
Ill-informed and arguably dangerous pronouncements about COVID-19 made by fellows of Stanford's Hoover Institution have brought longstanding tensions between the conservative think tank and the university's faculty to the surface.
Source: NPR
11/7/2020
Ruby Bridges, whose integration of New Orleans Schools in 1960 was captured by Norman Rockwell, has written a children's history book about her experiences.
Source: Haaretz
11/8/2020
A prominent Polish Holocaust survivor has objected to the appointment of Effi Eitam, an Israeli politician and former military commander, to chair the directorate of the Holocaust memorial because of inflammatory statements calling for the deportation of Palestinans from the West Bank and calling Arab Israelis a "fifth column."
Source: The Guardian
11/8//2020
Kamala Harris will be the first woman and woman of color to hold the vice presidency. Her political past offers a complicated picture of the kinds of policies she's likely to advance in that role.
Source: Washington Post
11/11/2020
"Even before the race was called, Mississippi’s five Republicans in Congress released a joint statement that warned, without evidence, about the existence of “voting irregularities” across the country."
Source: Washington Post
1/6/2020
by Edward B. Foley
A leading election law scholar warns that Trump allies may still try to steal the election.
Source: The Atlantic
11/6/2020
by Zeynep Tufekci
Trump grasps the theatrics of authoritarian leadership, but doesn't have the skill or diligence to follow through with policy to turn the crises he creates to his advantage. More resilient autocrats elsewhere provide examples that other American politicians are likely to follow.
Source: NPR
11/7/2020
It is probably the least consequential outcome of the election result, but dogs will be returning to the White House.
Source: NBC News
11/8/2020
Political Science Professor William Adler warns that while Trump may be on his way out, the period between election and inauguration will be dangerous--think about Buchanan-Lincoln or Hoover-FDR for instance.
Source: The Baffler
11/10/2020
A 2020 report on global poverty suggests that the problem is getting worse, directly attacking the methodologies the World Bank has used for decades to justify global capitalism as an anti-poverty program.
Source: Vox
11/10/2020
"It strips out Vance’s sociopolitical commentary entirely, which, however you feel about the commentary, leaves the story without an all-important ingredient: a political and sociological point."
Source: NPR
11/10/2020
NPR court analyst Nina Totenberg discusses the case being argued today in front of the new 6-3 conservative majority which could jeopardize millions of people's health insurance during the COVID pandemic.
Source: Anadisgoi
11/10/2020
In 1863, Cherokee Nation passed an act to abolish slavery in the Cherokee Nation, and later those freed slaves and their descendants were granted “all the rights of native Cherokees” through the Treaty of 1866.
