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: Washington Post
9/8/2020
Texas A&M's mostly white and conservative alumni network supports campus traditions that clash with the values of the school's increasingly diverse students today, highlighted in protests to remove a statue of a former university president who participated in massacres of Black soliders as a Confederate, violently purged Native people as a Texas Ranger, and presided over the violent aftermath of Reconstruction as Governor.
Source: Washington Post
9/8/2020
Prince George's County, east of Washington, DC, became one of the country's biggest majority-Black suburban areas in the 1990s. Then the county police department was subject to a federal consent decree over use of force policies. Today, the county is working proactively to respond to community pressures for further reform.
Source: Washington Post
9/8/2020
The late Waverly Woodson is one of an untold number of Black service members passed over for the Medal of Honor whose cases have received renewed attention decades later, as their families and historians try to correct a historical record in which the contributions of Black service members are often left out.
Source: Los Angeles Times
9/8/2020
Roberto Clemente is often remembered as a pioneering Puerto Rican star in baseball, but as an Afro-Carribean player, he fought for Black civil rights as well.
Source: American Prospect
9/9/2020
Feeling anxious about the months before the election? Don't worry, the months after will be much worse!
Source: Mississippi Free Press
9/3/2020
by Ashton Pittman
Black Lives Matter protests organized by high school students near Hattiesburg, Mississippi are responding to inequities created by the growth of white flight suburbs after "Brown v. Board of Education," when manipulated city and school district boundaries and private "segregation academies" helped whites to hoard resources and educational opportunity.
Source: Washington Post
9/8/2020
by Benjamin L. Ginsberg
"Republicans trying to make their cases for stricter voting procedures in courts must deal with the basic truth that four decades of dedicated investigation have produced only isolated incidents of election fraud," writes a longtime Republican election lawyer.
Source: New York Times
9/4/2020
For two years, a prisoner in the German concentration camp kept a journal that would later be used to convict those who had persecuted him and killed his fellow prisoners.
Source: Washington Post
9/6/2020
Americans throughout the country are climbing attic stairs, descending into dusty basements and flipping through folders in old filing cabinets to seek words of everyday wisdom from ancestors who have suffered through something like this before.
Source: Detroit Free Press
9/7/2020
"The Rosies and veterans then told stories from the front lines. One Rosie said she was shocked at the idea of wearing pants to work. A veteran recalled being shot down from the sky in northern Italy and receiving notes from Rosies back home full of profanities toward Hitler."
Source: Forbes
9/6/2020
The 1619 Project has been published for a year. Why, now, is Donald Trump making a political issue over its use in schools? The author says it's not about teaching history but shaping national propaganda.
Source: KPBS
9/6/2020
Two Dutch women, one white and one Black, met through their shared ancestral connection to the slave trade in Suriname. They have produced an eight-part podcast to encourage the Dutch people to recognize the role slavery played in building the Netherlands.
Source: Washington Post
9/8/2020
A Washington, D.C. government committee issued recommendations for reassessing many public facilities named for historical figures. In some cases, the case against the figure is might need some explanation.
Source: The Guardian
9/1/2020
A 105 year-old woman, one of two known living survivors of the Tulsa massacre in 1921, is a lead plaintiff in a suit charging that the destruction of Black-owned property and government approval of terrorism against Black Tulsans causes ongoing harm today.
Source: New York Times
9/8/2020
by Jesse Wegman
The real problem with the Electoral College isn't that it inflates the power of small states. It erases the votes of tens of millions through state winner-take-all election rules.
Source: Fox News
9/6/2020
The University of Maryland made the change to honr the hero of emancipation and reflect its commitment to teaching and scholarship about Black women's history.
Source: Salon
9/7/2020
A new memoir by Sharon Dukett recounts the down side of the 1960s counterculture: poverty, police harassment, and rampant sexism.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
9/8/2020
Stephen Nisbet was a longtime educator and trustee of Michigan State University. Evidence suggests he also was a member of the Klan during its 1920s resurgence.
Source: The Guardian
9/7/2020
The British politician whose words Joe Biden used without credit in a 1987 campaign speech still supports Biden in the upcoming election. The scandal is recapped here.
Source: New York Times
9/8/2020
A political scientist argues that today's polarization is enabled by the collapse of political diversity within the major parties, not by an especially ideological electorate.
