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: NPR
10/8/2020
Billie Holliday's legal problems over drugs were made more difficult by her refusal to stop performing the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit."
Source: National Trust for Historic Preservation
10/5/2020
For Black Americans, the amphitheater-style stadium was home to and embodied the incredible spirit of Negro Leagues baseball. It will now be renovated so its story can be preserved.
Source: New York Times
10/10/2020
In a recent interview, Mr. Kurosawa, 65, said he found it hard to understand why Japan’s war crimes remained almost taboo among the country’s filmmakers 75 years after the conflict’s end.
Source: Whitehouse.gov
10/9/2020
The White House used the occasion of Columbus Day to attack historical revisionism and the use of "racially divisive concepts" in workplace training.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/12/2020
Although the findings have not been peer reviewed, a working paper on college administrators' decisions to reopen campuses suggests that Republican state leadership was correlated with decisions to return students to campus this fall.
Source: National Association of Scholars
10/6/2020
The advocacy organization National Association of Scholars calls for the Pulitzer Prize Board to rescind its award to Nikole Hannah-Jones.
Source: Facing South
10/8/2000
There are three state legislators, all Republicans, now up for reelection across the region who have continued to promote Lost Cause lies through legislation and other official efforts. They are Rep. Tommy Benton of Georgia, Rep. Larry Pittman of North Carolina, and Sen. Joey Hensley of Tennessee.
Source: New York Times
10/8/2020
by Mary B. McCord
There is no right in any state for groups of individuals to arm themselves and organize either to oppose or augment the government.
Source: New York Times
10/7/2020
The court tied the far-right party to a string of attacks, including the fatal stabbing of a left-wing rapper.
Source: Greensboro News & Record
10/6/2020
The Greensboro Police Department knew through informants that the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party planned to attack a 1979 anti-Klan march of the Communist Workers Party, but neither warned the marchers nor stopped the violence. Five marchers were killed and none of the attackers were convicted of crimes.
Source: Iowa Public Radio
10/6/2020
Although Trump's COVID diagnosis was, perhaps, unexpected, October Surprises have historically involved presidents announcing policy initiatives to improve their reelection prospects. Presidential historians Tim Naftali and Tim Walch discuss.
Source: The New Republic
10/6/2020
Five of the court's current justices are already comfortable with a "free exercise supremacy" approach that casts the rights of the religious to mold society to their faith as superior to the rights of women, gays, and minorities to live with dignity.
Source: Boston Globe
10/7/2020
Recent instances of racist graffiti in the Boston suburb sparked local government to pass a resolution renouncing any past actions that made it unwelcoming to racial minorities. It is uncertain if Groton was a "sundown town" but it is widely known as a hotbed of Klan activity in the 1920s.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
10/7/2020
The order is consistent with other Trump administration initiatives to attack critical studies of racism in America.
Source: New York Times
10/7/2020
He and his brother, grandsons of John Tyler, were the third of three generations that remarkably spanned almost the entire history of the American experience.
Source: The Intercept
U.S. Customs and Border Protection wants to destroy thousands of complaint records it claims have no historical value.
Source: New York Magazine
10/8/2020
Jonathan Chait says that Senator Mike Lee's insistence that the US is a republic and not a democracy is not a point of constitutional principle but a political defense of minority rule.
Source: Detroit News
10/8/2020
The FBI announced that it thwarted a conspiracy to kidnap Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer who has drawn attacks from the far right over her advocacy for lockdown policies to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Source: The Atlantic
10/8/2020
by Jake Tapper
Journalist Jake Tapper reflects on the prescience of the 1957 Elia Kazan/Budd Schulberg film "A Face in the Crowd", which anticipated the power of inflammatory appeals in the mass media.
Source: Association of University Presses
10/8/2020
The international association of scholarly publishers calls the Trump adminstration's attacks on critical race theory and antiracism training a "chilling and frankly un-American" attack on intellectual inquiry.
