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: New York Times
6/21/2020
Historians, including some at Monmouth, have said that Wilson believed in white supremacy and advanced policies to support his racist worldview.
Source: Washington Post
6/17/2020
The digital map, which had attracted little notice outside of the New York Public Library, offers significant insight into the course of a pivotal Civil War battle.
Source: Politico
6/14/2020
Trump's anger at internet speculation about his health reflects a serious concern: perceptions of vigor and physical strength have long been influential in presidential politics.
Source: CNN
6/16/2020
Donald Trump's announcement of a planned rally in Tulsa opened new and old wounds for the city's black residents.
Source: Slate
6/16/2020
by Rebecca Onion
One of the most powerful phrases in the Civil Rights Act is often viewed as a malicious joke that backfired. But its entrance into American law was far more savvy than that, led by Representative Martha Griffiths.
Source: New York Times
6/16/2020
The wire service, which serves more than 2,000 newspapers, published a quotation from the leader of the Confederacy on his birth date. It ran in dozens of papers.
Source: The Atlantic
6/16/2020
A new book of crime photographs by the late Gordon Parks reveals the photographer's art and his efforts to fight back against dominant and frequently racist ways of depicting crime and law enforcement.
Source: NBC News
6/15/2020
In a video of the rally, shots could be heard as protesters tried to remove a statue of conquistador Juan de Oñate.
Source: The Atlantic
6/16/2020
Beneath the verbal jousting, the Court expressed dueling views of sexual orientation and gender, and how society should assess them.
Source: Running Magazine
6/16/2020
The Australian sprinter stood in solidarity with Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the Olympics in Mexico City.
Source: Washington Post
6/16/2020
Racial terror followed passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865.
Source: The Hill
6/16/2020
"Throughout our nation’s history, racial inequality has hit our tribal nations the hardest," writes Ryan Benally.
Source: The New Yorker
6/15/2020
New histories suggest that the notorious Nazi was less a twisted figure than a true believer in a long-standing movement to use science to prove racial superiority.
Source: Indian Country Today
6/17/2020
Santa Fe Mayor Alan Webber announced Wednesday that the city would be removing two monuments honoring Kit Carson, who commanded U.S. troops who forced Navajos to a concentration camp in the 1860s, as well as a statue of Don Diego De Vargas, a Spanish conquistador who murdered hundreds of Pueblo people.
Source: The New York Times
6/17/2020
This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime.
Source: CNN
6/17/2020
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy proposed renaming every military installation for a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient and said many non-Confederate leaders engaged in racist, misogynist, or otherwise hateful behavior.
Source: The Atlantic
6/11/2020
Documentarian Daniel Lombroso followed several prominent white nationalist media figures for his documentary film White Noise, which will screen on June 20 through AFI.
Source: The Atlantic
6/16/2020
Two major parts of American institutional life--law enforcement and the regulatory state--have failed spectaculary as the culmination of long-term historical trends.
Source: New York Times
6/15/2020
Tensions between persons with Hispanic and Native American ancestry in New Mexico have been crystallized in protests over a statue of a brutal Spanish conquistador.
Source: The New York Times
6/14/2020
Bristol was built with money from the slave trader Edward Colston. Tearing down his statue has reopened a painful reckoning with the city’s racist past.
