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: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
6/24/2020
The statue of a Wisconsin abolitionist seemed an odd target for protesters.
Source: Washington Post
6/24/2020
A spokesman for the Marshals service said Wednesday, “We don’t confirm or deny any enforcement actions that we might take.”
Source: Rolling Stone
6/22/2020
Local historians and Liverpool's International Slavery Museum released a statement saying that there was no evidence that the street made famous by Paul McCartney was named for slave trader James Penny.
Source: New York Times
6/21/2020
The Times located a number of the black children assaulted by white teens during an anti-integration march in Queens in 1975. The incident was just one part of an organized and often violent effort by white Rosedale residents to prevent racial integration.
Source: Washington Post
6/23/2020
Social science experiments suggest that white Southerners can be persuaded to let go of the Confederacy through frank discussion of the region's history of racism. Comparisons to Nazi Germany? Not so much.
Source: San Jose Mercury-News
6/17/2020
Two San Francisco Bay Area schools named for founding fathers who were slaveholders will get new names following a push by Black Lives Matter activists, according to a newspaper report.
Source: New York Times
6/23/2020
A monument to Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va., has become the site of an unlikely community space. That may change abruptly with new restrictions from the police.
Source: American Historical Association
6/23/2020
The American Historical Association is launching a major new initiative to help our members and their colleagues with the challenges of being a historian, and a history teacher, in a virtual environment.
Source: Washington Post
6/21/2020
Warren G. Harding’s comments about race and equality were remarkable for 1921.
Source: Reuters
6/18/2020
The Lloyd’s of London insurance market apologised on Thursday for its “shameful” role in the 18th and 19th Century Atlantic slave trade and pledged to fund opportunities for black and ethnic minority people.
Source: Politico
6/19/2020
In 1993, Carol Moseley Braun, the first black woman in the Senate, joined Biden’s Judiciary Committee. It solved an image problem for Biden. The results were groundbreaking.
Source: LitHub
6/19/2020
Harmony Holiday dreams of a Black sound unfettered by white desire.
Source: Eat This, Not That
6/19/2020
In honor of Juneteenth, these five exemplary novels explore the evolution of African American cuisine.
Source: The Atlantic
6/20/2020
Urban inequality didn’t happen by accident.
Source: The Atlantic
6/22/2020
Here’s what’s become of them.
Source: BBC
6/17/2020
Aristides de Sousa Mendes ruined his own diplomatic career by helping Jews acquire visas to leave Belgium ahead of Nazi persecution.
Source: Washington Post
6/22/2020
President Donald Trump called the decision "ridiculous" in an early-morning tweet.
Source: USA Today
6/22/2020
Historian Rita Roberts explains how the iconography of black service workers reinforced white supremacist ideology on consumer packaging, while Jason Chambers and Gregory Smithers discuss the relationship of the business community to changing norms about racism.
Source: New York Times
6/22/2020
The Museum emphasized that the statue was being moved because of how it depicted Roosevelt in a hierarchical relationship to the figures of Native American and African men.
Source: Washington Monthly
6/22/2020
The Republican Party has not matched the gains made by Democrats in seating women in Congress since the "Year of the Woman" in 1992.
