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: Greenville (SC) News
6/12/2020
Calhoun was a slave owner and secessionist whose plantation became Clemson University; Tillman was a governor and white supremacist whose name adorns Clemson's most iconic building.
Source: WLTX (SC)
6/15/2020
Sims is known to have performed hundreds of medical experimentations on enslaved women.
Source: Washington Post
6/14/2020
Named for Claudius Lee, Lee Hall has faced numerous calls to be renamed ever since history students in the 1990s discovered a yearbook claiming Lee as a campus Ku Klux Klan leader.
Source: Washington Post
6/12/2020
In the last few weeks, books from authors the likes of Ibram X. Kendi, Annette Gordon-Reed, and David W. Blight have seen surges in sales. But in the current moment, how much do sales say about social and political influence?
Source: The New York Times
6/10/2020
A prosecutor said there was “reasonable evidence” that the man who shot the Swedish prime minister was Stig Engstrom, a graphic designer, who took his own life in 2000.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
6/11/2020
Four years before the state adopted a flag design with the confederate emblem in the top left corner, Mississippi made radical changes to its Constitution which deliberately targeted Black residents and reversed Reconstruction-era reforms.
Source: The New York Times
6/13/2020
The landmark 1965 immigration law prioritized family ties, but originally as a way to keep America white.
Source: Haaretz
6/14/2020
A new book details how Ted Turner broke the rules of the news business (and occasionally good taste) to launch CNN.
Source: +972 Magazine
A new website tracking incidents of right-wing antisemitism finds that rarely a week goes by without the Republican Party boosting white nationalism. A long history of conservative maneuvering to portray Democrats and the left as antisemitic helps explain the lack of political consequences.
Source: Charlotte Observer
6/16/2020
Republican Rep. Larry Pittman of Cabarrus County had earlier compared Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler and urging public hangings for doctors performing abortions.
Source: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
6/14/2020
Edith White was part of a team of women who served the US Navy as codebreakers, and fought for democratic values like integrated schools after the war's end.
Source: Washington Post
6/13/2020
A brief video discussion of the worldwide movement to removing public monuments to racist figures features Professor Ana Lucia Araujo of Howard University.
Source: Miller Center (University of Virginia)
6/15/2020
Lyndon Johnson's words after rioting erupted in Detroit speak to ongoing concerns in American society.
Source: The New Yorker
6/15/2020
She has become an icon of American letters. Now readers are reckoning with another side of her legacy.
Source: New York Review of Books
6/15/2020
by Amna A. Akbar
An Ohio State University law professor summarizes the history of activists and academics who shaped the movement for police abolition that has received attention in the wake of George Floyd's killing and ensuing protests.
Source: National Security Archive
Recently declassified documents suggest the U.S. Embassy in Guyana harbored and concealed strong suspicions that the Guyanese government arranged the assassination of activist Walter Rodney.
Source: New York Times
6/10/2020
As public-health experts have known since the 19th century, information can be the best medicine. What new data streams could help quell future outbreaks?
Source: 60 Minutes
6/14/2020
A story reported in December features Smithsonian historian John W. Franklin describing the long-overdue plans to unearth the truth and honor the dead of the Greenwood neighborhood, the "Black Wall Street" of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Source: Washington Post
6/15/2020
A segregationist congressman's "poison pill" amendment to include sex discrimination in the 1964 Civil Rights Act became the linchpin of a ruling that LGBTQ people are protected by the act.
Source: New York Times
6/11/2020
A debate is unfolding over whether to rename the installations, as part of a broader national reckoning over buildings, monuments and memorials to men who fought to preserve slavery and uphold white supremacy.
