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: LA Times
8/18/2020
Readers who know little about Lewis will find an often moving story, but it will prove unsatisfying to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the movement.
Source: Slate
8/18/2020
The six-part High Score is heavy on nostalgia but light on revelations.
Source: New York Times
8/19/2020
Douglas, Lincoln's famous political nemesis, was famous for arguing that newly admitted states should decide on slavery themselves. His personal profit from slavery was a factor in the decision to remove his statue.
Source: Washington Post
8/17/2020
Holding a mass march for civil rights and social justice at a time of political division is risky. That's what they said in 1963. For leaders hoping to renew a call to national action, COVID and the election raise the stakes even higher.
Source: Washington Post
8/18/2020
In order to win, Trump "must find a way to reduce the number of anti-Trump voters who can actually cast a ballot," writes columnist Colbert I. King.
Source: Washington Monthly
8/18/2020
Trump may be trying to sabotage the election, but the war against the Postal Service goes back decades.
Source: Vox
8/17/2020
Democrats have scheduled a convention that’s more about celebrating the past than winning the future.
Source: ProPublica
8/17/2020
In the 1950s, New York City created the Civilian Complaint Review Board to address police misconduct. Since then, police unions have fought to limit its power.
Source: Huffington Post
8/18/2020
The Portsmouth, VA Police Department has thrown the book at public officials they believe supported protests which led to the destruction of Confederate monuments. They also appear to be working to prevent a progressive Black state prosecutor from handling the case by claiming she is a witness to the events.
Source: Washington Post
8/13/2020
The “Talbot Boys” memorial is thought to be the only Confederate memorial on state property in Maryland.
Source: The Atlantic
8/17/2020
An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern history.
Source: Washington Post
8/17/2020
“The education system is where people form values other than what their parents have,” 18 year old Vanessa Amoah of Omaha said. “George Floyd, Philando Castile — none of it would have happened if this country worked on proactively teaching anti-racist values."
Source: Journal of American History
8/18/2020
To mark the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, and to encourage critical assessment of the broader histories of suffrage and suffrage restriction in the United States, the Journal of American History has assembled “Women, Voting, and the Nineteenth Amendment: A JAH Suffrage Reader.”
Source: New York Times
8/12/2020
In an oral history released after his death, the former national security adviser revealed a few key moments in which his ideas failed in the war against Saddam Hussein.
Source: Vox
8/14/2020
by Matthew Yglesias
Right-wing challenges to Kamala Harris's eligibility for the presidency depend on a legal argument that American-born children of immigrants are a lesser category of citizen. There is no basis under the Constitution for this.
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center
8/11/2020
The SPLC's report on Confederate memorials on public land has been updated to reflect recent removals of statues and other monuments.
Source: New York Times
8/15/2020
Tempers flared but no arrests or serious injuries resulted from confrontation between far-right and white supremacist groups and antiracist counterprotesters in Stone Mountain, Georgia on Saturday.
Source: NPR
8/14/2020
The Good Humor ice cream company joined forces with RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan to replace a standard jingle with roots in racist minstrel shows.
Source: Washington Post
8/16/2020
Major League Baseball's celebration of the centennial of the Negro Leagues whitewashes the role of major league owners in segregating baseball with an 1887 "Gentlemen's Agreement."
Source: New York Times
8/17/2020
The 20th century offers object lessons in why fleeing cities for suburban and exurban settings can backfire — even if it seems like a good idea at first.
