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: Retro Report
7/2/2020
The AIDS pandemic was marked by a slow response and a lack of clear public health messages and testing. Despite those lessons, we were still unprepared for Covid-19.
Source: Washington Monthly
7/18/2020
Trump's ordering of DHS personnel to arrest protesters in Portland should be seen in light of the expiration of a critical 1982 consent decree under which the Republican National Committee has agreed not to deploy law enforcement officers to polling stations. That conduct will no longer be barred in 2020.
Source: Washington Post
7/18/2020
As the group jeered, Reverend Robert Turner shouted: “You care more about a face mask than you do justice, than you do for people whose bodies are still in mass graves.”
Source: Politico
7/20/2020
The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board was established by Congress in January 2019. Now nominees for the board named by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Society of American Archivists, and the American Bar Association are being "vetted" by the White House, raising concerns about partisan interference.
Source: The New York Times
7/20/2020
A determined handful of men in New Orleans carry on the cause Dr. King died defending in Memphis.
Source: The Guardian
7/19/2020
Trump said on Sunday, “I’m not offended either by Black Lives Matter, that’s freedom of speech. You know the whole thing with cancel culture – we can’t cancel our whole history. We can’t forget that the north and the south fought.”
Source: Washington Post
7/20/2020
The court has shown less deference to presidents in recent years. Even so, Trump stands out.
Source: New York Daily News
7/19/2020
Advocates for the name change include filmmaker Ava DuVernay and South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn.
Source: NBC News
7/19/2020
Psychologist Ervin Staub has pioneered active bystander training to limit violence between police and the public.
Source: Washington Post
7/19/2020
House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn is calling on Trump to turn words into action.
Source: DCist
7/20/2020
“Colonialist, terrorist, murderer. In a lot of places that’s what colonials mean to people,” said one student. “Why would we continue to call ourselves that?”
Source: Democracy Now!
7/20/2020
In 2012, Rep. Lewis spoke to Democracy Now! about his efforts during the civil rights movement.
Source: CNN
7/20/2020
The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the Six Triple Eight, was the only all-Black Women's Army Corps unit to serve in Europe during World War II.
Source: The Atlantic
7/18/2020
Black leaders pause to reflect on the civil-rights icon and representative from Georgia, who spent decades calling for activism and “good trouble.”
Source: WTOP
7/15/2020
Thirteen Civil War Heritage areas have been awarded more than $5.1 million in grants to help support improvement projects in the state of Maryland.
Source: Washington Post
7/15/2020
What would the oft-quoted Parker say about yet another resting place? One can almost hear her.
What fresh hell is this?
Source: Washington Post
7/14/2020
Supporters of the monument, including dozens of conservative black thought leaders, pastors and politicians who came to the nation’s capital to defend the embattled statue, say its critics are misreading the statue and ignoring its history.
Source: New York Times
7/15/2020
“When am I going to quit? When racists quit,” Jane Elliott said. “Do I have a job for a lifetime? I’m afraid so.”
Source: New York Times
7/15/2020
The debate over what should permanently replace the Colston statue has percolated since last month. Historians have suggested a statue of Paul Stephenson, a Black activist who organized a successful boycott of a Bristol bus company in the 1960s.
Source: The Atlantic
7/12/2020
by Julian Brave NoiseCat
Gorsuch, a westerner with experience in Indian law, who is no liberal, applied a conservative textualist approach to the reading of treaty law and statutes. The result: A legal theory that has been marshaled to combat abortion rights and gay marriage delivered the most significant and favorable Supreme Court decision for tribes in the 21st century.
