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: Chronicle of Higher Education
8/26/2020
Will the COVID crisis be the moment that seals the power of trustees, donors and administrators over universities organized like corporations, or will faculty organize to reassert shared governance?
Source: New York Times
8/27/2020
Finally reopening after a COVID-enforced hiatus, the British Museum is making concessions to an audience that is more skeptical of the museum's relationship to colonialism and the slave trade.
Source: New York Times
8/31/2020
The stalled career of a distinguished Black Marine officer raises questions about how completely the Corps has embraced racial integration and equality in its leadership.
Source: Huffington Post
9/1/2020
The story of the effort by Portsmouth, Virginia police to prosecute a local state legislator for conspiring to "injure" Confederate monuments continues to develop.
Source: The Atlantic
8/30/2020
The Atlantic presents photographs from this weekend's March on Washington.
9/1/2020
A group of historians has launched a new group dedicated to making sure that college students are able to exercise their right to vote.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
8/31/2020
Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon are introducing legislation for a revived version of the New Deal-Era Civilian Conservation Corps, seeking to create jobs in forestry, parks, and land conservation.
Source: New York Times
8/30/2020
New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow writes that Trump is just the latest in a long line of American politicians who have stoked racist fears for advantage.
Source: The New Yorker
9/1/2020
Two podcasts address controversial aspects of racial integration in schooling, looking at contemporary New York and Boston in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Source: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
8/27/2020
The humorist examines the controversy over removing Confederate monuments and how we remember and teach history.
Source: Washington Post
8/29/2020
The passage of a "Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights" in Maryland set the tone for other state laws insulating police officers from meaningful oversight.
Source: Associated Press
8/31/2020
The National Security Archive has publicized documents from the George W. Bush administration which show the US government was well aware of ties between Colombian president Alvaro Uribe and right-wing paramilitary groups that the US had identified as terrorist groups.
Source: New York Times
8/26/2020
Trump has used recent protests to double down on a suburban strategy based in fear of crime and disorder. Writer Emily Badger investigates whether it will work.
Source: New York Times
8/26/2020
The U.S.C. Shoah Foundation has partnered with the genealogy giant, and an initial rollout faced a glitch. But some survivor families don’t want their histories public.
Source: Vanity Fair
8/26/2020
University of Connecticut sociologist Noël Cazenave says there is a historical relationship between white vigilante movements and perceptions of increased political power by Black people.
Source: CNN
8/25/2020
Young activists and their faculty supporters see an urgent need for education reform.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
8/27/2020
The extensive labor required to develop new online courses or shift existing ones to a virtual or mixed delivery is not always obvious to higher ed critics.
Source: Vox
8/27/2020
Both George W. Bush and Donald Trump represent a Republican Party soaked in contempt for, and mistrust of, the federal government. When you don’t respect, or even like, the institution you lead, you lead it poorly. When that institution is incredibly, globally important — as the US government is — leading it poorly can invite global catastrophe.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
8/26/2020
As the fall term begins, professors describe their experiences in the in-person (and virtual) classroom. Their verdict? Better than feared. Lots of faculty experimentation. Students are anxious, and physical conditions are … mixed.
Source: The New York Times
8/25/2020
“Mr. Soul!” spotlights Ellis Haizlip, the host of a show that gave Stevie Wonder, Wilson Pickett and James Baldwin a platform.
