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
7/25/2020
Speakers at a public memorial service in Troy, Ala., Lewis’s birthplace, urged Americans to carry on his legacy.
Source: Washington Post
7/24/2020
“Virginia has a story to tell that extends far beyond glorifying the Confederacy and its participants,” House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn said in an emailed statement, condemning the Confederate ideology as based on maintaining slavery.
Source: New York Post
7/24/2020
The criminology professor had been praised by some as a champion of free speech and condemned by others as a purveyor of racist, homophobic, or otherwise bigoted rhetoric.
Source: The Nation
7/23/2020
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, women- and minority-owned businesses are still contending with unequal access to credit.
Source: NPR
7/22/2020
Most of the museums surveyed made a point of providing educational resources to students during the lockdown. But those are precisely the kind of services that will need to be cut in the budget crunch ahead, according to almost two-thirds of museum directors.
Source: Equal Justice Initiative
7/24/2020
Over the study's 40-year span, 128 participants died of syphilis or syphilis-related complications.
Source: Hyperallergic
7/22/2020
The museum estimates at least a 50% budget reduction for the coming year (the museum’s annual budget before COVID-19 was about $11 million) due to the losses of revenue caused by the pandemic.
Source: The Guardian
7/23/2020
A 93-year-old former SS guard has been found guilty of accessory to the murder of 5,232 people at a Nazi concentration camp in the final days of the second world war.
Source: USA Today
7/22/2020
Vivian was a monumental figure in the Civil Rights Movement, with a stretch of advocating for racial equality for more than six decades from his first sit-in demonstrations in the 1940s in Peoria, Illinois.
Source: Washington Post
7/22/2020
The massacre — one of the worst episodes of racist violence in U.S. history — became the subject of renewed scrutiny as Tulsa prepares to commemorate the 100th anniversary next year.
Source: Deseret News
7/22/2020
To bring American games to a stop requires apocalyptic events.
Source: Foreign Affairs
7/22/2020
The bold policy for not just weathering the crisis, but coming out better.
Source: The New York Times
7/22/2020
The question of what to include in the case against President Trump is at the heart of a new book by Norm Eisen, a lawyer working with House Democrats in the impeachment effort.
Source: ABC11 (NC)
7/23/2020
"When you use the term genocide, it really brings home the fact that this isn't just over reproductive behavior, it's really about eliminating a group of people," said a co-author of the study.
Source: The New York Times
7/22/2020
The bipartisan vote to banish the statues from display was the latest step in a nationwide push to remove historical symbols of racism and oppression from public places.
Source: Stockholm Center for Freedom
7/22/2020
In a letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Professor Dina Rizk Khoury urged that all charges against Professor Bülent Şık, a food engineer working on public health and food safety, be dropped.
Source: ProPublica
7/22/2020
Since the early 2000s, an escalating fight over so-called voter fraud has crippled the EAC, often sabotaging its most dedicated commissioners while emboldening those who are less effective.
Source: Washington Post
7/22/2020
The Sierra Club isn’t the only organization that is shaking its foundations. Leaders of predominantly white, liberal and progressive groups throughout the field of conservation say they are taking a hard look within their organizations and don’t like what they see.
Source: Vanity Fair
7/20/2020
The book and the documentary Good Trouble serve as twin cultural epitaphs for a man widely adored and perpetually being reimagined, discovered, and studied.
Source: Slate
7/19/2020
"When police beat someone for challenging a morally diseased system, the phrase “beaten for challenging a morally diseased system” rarely gets written in the incident report."
