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: The Atlantic
7/30/2020
There aren’t many historical precedents for such a move, but when they exist, they have been undertaken by politicians who are extremely well liked.
Source: ProPublica
7/31/2020
Several stakeholders are interviewed about Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's decision to temporarily remove two statues of Christopher Columbus from public space.
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
7/30/2020
In his ongoing campaign to paint racial desegregation as a bid to “abolish the suburbs,” the president is pushing a vision of suburban voters based on a dated demographic reality.
Source: New York Times
7/30/2020
by Steven G. Calabresi
One of the founders of the Federalist Society argues that Trump's call to postpone the 2020 election is grounds for removal from office if not rescinded.
Source: NPR
A series of interviews examines the ways that race and social class affect the ability of women to use motherhood as a source of political power.
Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune
7/28/2020
A pair of new statues in South Korea of a man kneeling in front of a girl symbolizing a victim of sexual slavery by Japan's wartime military is the latest subject of diplomatic sensitivity between the countries, with Tokyo's government spokesperson questioning whether the male figure represents the Japanese prime minister.
Source: Washington Post
7/28/2020
The lawmaker — who is a chaplain for the Prattville Dragoons, a chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans — attributed the intense blowback he’s facing to “anti-Southern sentiment” amid the country’s ongoing racial reckoning.
Source: Wall Street Journal
7/28/2020
Homecoming, a celebration that has drawn descendants of the town’s post-Civil War founders for generations, moves online due to coronavirus.
Source: Washington Post
7/25/2020
Elizabeth Dole’s fight for seat belt laws in the 1980s inspired the sort of rhetoric and division America is seeing today over government mandates to wear masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Source: The New Yorker
7/27/2020
Activists insist that police departments must change. For half a century, New York City’s P.B.A. has successfully resisted such demands.
Source: The New Yorker
7/26/2020
The amendment, ratified a century ago, is often described as having “given” women the right to vote. It wasn’t a gift; it was a hard-won victory achieved after more than seventy years of suffragist agitation.
Source: The New Yorker
7/27/2020
McCarthy never sent a single “subversive” to jail, but, decades later, the spirit of his conspiracy-mongering endures.
Source: Current Affairs
7/28/2020
Because American police have always upheld racial capitalism through violence, anti-racist public safety requires police abolition—and police abolition requires reparations.
Source: Politico
7/29/2020
Conservatives have wanted the federal government to take control of crime in Chicago for decades — long before Trump got into politics.
Source: New York Times
7/28/2020
In the 40 years since the program was established, no refugee who has entered the country through the resettlement program has killed anyone in a terrorist attack in the United States.
Source: NPR
7/28/2020
For reasons that she explores in her new book, "Larger Than Life: A History Of Boy Bands From NKOTB To BTS", Maria Sherman says boy bands don't get the same respect as other music acts, especially their rock peers.
Source: New York Times
7/26/2020
The town finds itself reassessing its identity, divided between the growing imperative to eradicate symbols of slavery and decades of cultural and economic ties to the Confederates who fought to preserve it.
Source: Georgia Public Broadcasting
7/27/2020
Judy Heumann and Imani Barbarin represent two generations of disability activists: those who helped to bring about the Americans with Disabilities Act and those who are now working to secure its gains and improve its shortcomings.
Source: Washington Post
7/28/2020
Thomas Chambliss Williams served as superintendent of Alexandria City Public Schools from the 1930s to the 1960s. He resisted integration, argued black and white students learn differently and fired a black cafeteria worker when she joined a NAACP lawsuit compelling Alexandria to end segregation.
Source: The New York Times
7/26/2020
As a teenager, I thought his ‘Tonight Show’ was a bland, uncool relic. Now I appreciate his deadpan humor and the loose weirdness of his interviews.
