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: Haaretz
9/16/2020
A survey by the Claims Conference, an organization that coordinates restitution for Holocaust victims, showed most younger Americans are aware of the Holocaust, but there are substantial pockets of ignorance, denial, and antisemitic explanations.
Source: IndieWire
9/13/2020
The most revealing takeaway from a new documentary on the FBI's campaign to take down Martin Luther King, Jr. isn’t that J. Edgar Hoover used every dirty machination at his disposal to take King down, but that most of the country seemed to think it was the right thing to do.
Source: CAPRadio
9/13/2020
An economist and leading scholar of the racial wealth gap urges California legislators to consider the bill as an effort at atonement, because full and proper reparations require a national and federal response from Washington.
Source: AzCentral
9/13/2020
From its territorial days to the present, Arizona has a history of suppressing votes which came back with a vengeance after the 2013 Supreme Court decision crippled the Voting Rights Act.
Source: Times of London
9/14/2020
The University of Edinburgh will rename a tower in response to charges that philosopher David Hume endorsed racism.
Toots Hibbert, the co-founder and lead singer of Toots and the Maytals, was one of the most distinctive and important voices of reggae and one of its founding fathers.
Source: The New Yorker
9/12/2020
by Casey Cep
The author examines the history and politics of the last remaining Confederate monument on public lands, other than battlefields and cemeteries, in the state of Maryland.
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
9/10/2020
A proposal to redevelop a section of Newport, Rhode Island far from the city's typical tourist destinations has generated an unlikely alliance of low-income residents who fear displacement and affluent historic preservation advocates.
Source: New York Times
9/13/2020
Florence Howe faced difficulty in teaching in the early days of Women's Studies: a lack of materials. She started a press that changed that.
Source: BBC
9/14/2020
Members of Warren Harding's family have accepted DNA evidence of the paternity of the former president's daughter. Harding's grandson today seeks to have the body exhumed for further testing, possibly to spite the organization that runs the Harding Memorial.
Source: Frank Interviews
9/10/2020
Economist Sandy Darity summarizes the case for reparations through the persistent Black-White wealth gap.
Source: American Songwriter
9/13/2020
"I find it confusing, I would say, that that the president has chosen to use my song for his political rallies, when in fact it seems like he is probably the fortunate son.”
Source: New York Times
9/13/2020
The opening of the Eisenhower monument in 2020 may make many mindful of the contrast between Ike and the current head of the Republican Party, although the memorial's design has already sparked a bitter battle that fits the temper of our times.
Source: Mel Magazine
9/11/2020
The satirical newspaper The Onion struggled to find a way to apply its trademark irreverance to the 9/11 terror attacks. For fans, however, the issue of September 27, 2001 met the grief and anger of the day with humor.
Source: War on the Rocks
9/8/2020
by Derek Chollet
The opening of a monument to Ike in Washington is occasion to remember his commitment to the idea that American national strength depended on internal harmony and justice.
Source: Harvard Magazine
9/8/2020
A Harvard Law School initiative to check predatory student lending must contend with the entanglement of federal student lending programs and for-profit education providers, which dates to the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights) of 1944.
Source: Yakima (WA) Herald
9/10/2020
Advances in DNA testing made it possible to identify the remains of Patrick Chess, unnacounted for and presumed dead in the attack on the USS Oklahoma.
Source: National Security Archive
9/11/2020
Applying the doctrine of Universal Jurisdiction for human rights abuses, a Spanish Court found former El Salvador Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano guilty in the assassination of six Jesuit priests and two Salvadoran women in 1989. The National Security Archive supplied hundreds of declassified documents as evidence.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
9/9/2020
The university, founded in 1857 to provide a college entirely free of northern influence, renounced its prior veneration of the "Lost Cause" myth of the Civil War.
Source: The Atlantic
9/8/2020
by Larry Diamond and Edward B. Foley
Two election law experts point to the non-trivial possibility of a constitutional crisis over the 2020 presidential election.
