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: Washington Post
5/27/2020
Economic data suggest that Millennials aren't just complaining. Their early years on the job market have been affected by the Great Recession and COVID and seen less growth than any other generation.
Source: New York Times
5/27/2020
Even some of the officials Mr. Kramer accused of “murder” and “genocide” recognized that his outbursts were part of a strategy to shock the country into dealing with AIDS as a public-health emergency.
Source: New York Times
5/25/2020
The virus has spread in more than 40 veterans’ homes in more than 20 states, leading to the deaths of at least 300 people.
Source: Watch The Yard
5/22/2020
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland joined the Freedom Riders in 1961, served a sentence at the notorious Parchman Farm prison, and enrolled at historically Black Tougalou College, where she joined the Delta Sigma Theta sorority and continued civil rights activism in Jackson, MS.
Source: Equal Justice Initiative
5/25/2020
Wildcat strikes by white workers were not uncommon protests against the workplace gains made by African Americans on the World War II homefront; they were frequently violent.
Source: New York Times
5/21/2020
McCoy headed the Brooklyn district where teacher transfers in 1968 sparked a bitter, racially-charged dispute over union seniority and community control.
Source: Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission
5/25/2020
The curators of three Washington-based exhibits on the centennial of the 19th Amendment discuss the history of women's suffrage.
Source: ArtNet News
5/19/2020
Portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama will likely not be installed at the White House until Trump is out of office.
Source: KUT
5/25/2020
In the new book, "Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court", coauthors Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson tell the story of nine women who were considered for positions on the country's highest court in the decades before O'Connor's appointment.
Source: The Guardian
5/22/2020
Disease has been a catalyst for significant changes in urban infrastructure; history suggests COVID-19 will be no different, though what those changes might be is uncertain.
Source: NBC News
5/25/2020
As budgets are stricken and mass layoffs become routine, scholars of all levels are fighting back to make sure diversity in academia won’t become collateral damage in the pandemic.
Source: WFAE
5/25/2020
Music, art classes, posters, plays and photography funded by the federal government were supposed to unite a nation in turmoil.
Source: Paris Review
5/21/2020
James Hemings, one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves, taught his fellow slaves at Monticello everything he knew about food, transmitting his influence down the generations, onto the tables of Virginia’s social elite.
Source: The New Yorker
5/25/2020
Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, idols of the Golden Age of sports, brought stardom to America’s pastime.
Source: Counterpunch
5/22/2020
National service and a green new deal, with lessons from the old new deal, could be the first step in “civilianizing” our nation, and beyond recovery, enhancing the world’s prospects for health, justice, and sustainability.
Source: Jacobin
5/26/2020
A union doesn’t automatically protect you from unsafe working conditions, but it can give you the freedom to follow your survival instincts instead of your supervisor.
Source: Crosscut
5/25/2020
Investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell has deepened the public memory of the Civil Rights Era. His reporting offers important lessons for today.
Source: Reel Chicago
5/25/2020
The documentary, narrated by legendary journalist Bill Kurtis, is a comprehensive telling of nearly everything that happened in Chicagoland during World War II.
Source: Boston Globe
5/22/2022
The renovation site will be a popup history museum as barriers will be decorated with recruitment posters, servicemen's letters, and other ephemera from the history of the Massachusetts 54th regiment of African American soldiers.
Source: History.com
A quota was set that limited immigration to two percent of any given nation’s residents already in the U.S. as of 1890, a provision designed to maintain America’s largely Northern European racial composition.
