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: Brandeis University
6/12/2020
A panel featuring legal scholar Anita Hill and historian Leah Wright Rigeur discuss the current protest movements at 12:00 Noon Eastern today.
Source: The Conversation
6/8/2020
The suffrage movement that led to the 19th Amendment was intertwined with many other social reform movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but the broad demands of egalitarian reforms activists wanted remain unfulfilled.
Source: Reuters
6/11/2020
Countries must find more creative ways to depict their history than statues that glorify racists and colonialists, a founder of South Africa’s successful Rhodes Must Fall movement said on Thursday.
Source: 4WWL New Orleans
6/11/2020
The group will be tasked with identifying places to be renamed and create a plan to educate the public on the changes made.
Source: New York Times
6/11/2020
“His name should be taken off everything in America, period,” Mr. de Blasio said at a news briefing.
Source: CNN
6/10/2020
Debate immediately ensued at the 1936 publication of Mitchell's novel, with its nostalgia for plantation life, portrayal of happy slaves and threatening freed blacks, and sympathy toward the Confederate cause.
Source: Esquire
6/11/2020
Children, strangely, are rarely so confused about all this. They know what it means when something is big and tall and in the center of things.
Source: Business Insider
6/11/2020
The events known as the Orangeburg massacre have remained shrouded in mystery and the state of South Carolina has not helped to advance truth and reconciliation.
Source: American Songwriter
6/10/2020
Performed with love and sorrow by Nina Simone only days after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., it sadly resonates today as much as ever.
Source: NPR
6/9/2020
According to Adam Serwer, 1868 is a more apt comparison.
Source: FiveThirtyEight
6/9/2020
Black Americans have a long history of fighting for racial justice — and the system has a long history of failing them.
Source: The New York Times
6/9/2020
The statue was targeted by recent protests against racism and Belgium’s colonial history. The authorities said the statue would remain in a museum.
Source: The New York Times
6/9/2020
A boat believed to be the PT-59, a Navy vessel Kennedy commanded after the PT-109 was sunk, has been mired in the muck off Manhattan for decades.
Source: The New York Times
6/10/2020
The editor of a top academic journal is facing calls to resign after criticizing protesters as “flat earthers” for wanting to defund the police.
Source: Associated Press
6/11/2020
For more than 70 years, the Confederate flag was a common and complicated sight at NASCAR races.
Source: Mississippi Today
6/9/2020
The current state flag was adopted in 1894 and is the last in the nation containing the Confederate battle emblem.
Source: The Atlantic
6/10/2020
Black men and women are still dying across the country. The power that is American policing has conceded nothing.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
6/9/2020
As the current pandemic ravages minority communities, historians are scrambling to continue work that preserves cultural heritage.
Source: CNN
6/10/2020
After protestors took down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston this past Sunday and dumped it in the River Avon, many are reconsidering what should happen to statues of similar individuals, who profited from the suffering of so many.
Source: Axios
6/10/2020
The President insisted that the names of military leaders from the losing side of the Civil War who fought for slavery and white supremacy were associated with "a history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom."
