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: Bloomberg CityLab
1/19/2023
State and local governments are required under the Fair Housing Act to examine and act to eliminate patterns of discrimination in housing within their boundaries. The federal purse has seldom been used as leverage to ensure they comply.
Source: Washington Post
1/12/2023
Gun industry lobbyists secured a carveout for firearms from the 1972 legislation establishing the Consumer Product Safety Commission, meaning that federal regulation can't treat guns like any other consumer product.
Source: New York Times
1/13/2023
Chen is one of the few survivors of the Great Leap Forward, but struggles with doubters of the veracity of her accounts.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
1/16/2023
"No serious person thinks Dr. King would not want us to interrogate how and why inequity became baked into our systems and how to fix those systems so they don’t keep replicating themselves."
Source: The New Republic
1/16/2023
Thanks in part to a push from Johnnie Tillmon of the National Welfare Rights Association, MLK championed abolishing poverty by guaranteeing a basic income.
Source: New York Times
1/15/2023
Some experts warn of a possible lost generation of college students from underrepresented backgrounds if race-conscious admissions are prohibited.
Source: Christianity Today
1/13/2023
A judge dismissed a lawsuit by LGBTQ students that challenged the faith-based exemptions that Christian colleges can claim from enforcement of antidiscrimination laws.
Source: The Atlantic
1/17/2023
While both British and American politics have become bitterly polarized and dysfunctional, the embrace by American leaders on the right of conspiracy theories as a uniquely American phenomenon.
Source: New York Times
1/16/2023
The reluctance of young Chinese to have children brings the potential of a demographic crisis and potential political turmoil.
Source: NPR
1/17/2023
Former Pentagon Special Counsel Oona Hathaway says that an excess of classification makes government accountability difficult to achieve, as well as contributing to potential criminality.
Source: The Atlantic
1/10/2023
From 1973 to the early 2000s, the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church operated a communal home in a Detroit apartment building, dedicated to the collective project of replacing received notions of Black inferiority with a sense of possibility.
Source: Nature
1/11/2023
Collective actions at the University of California campuses and elsewhere are influencing research workers to view the work that they do in the lab as labor.
Source: Nieman Lab
1/10/2023
Recent studies of media consumption and conspiracy theory adherence suggest misinformation is not terribly influential on political behavior. Unfortunately, neither is mythbusting, given the social and cognitive complexity of belief.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
1/11/2023
Attorney General Janet Fitch insisted that the Supreme Court had no cause to review the state's law disenfranchising certain felons. She acknowledged the explicit racist intent embedded in the statute but insisted that "taint" had been removed.
Source: New York Times
1/12/2023
Luisa Harris didn't just lead the Delta State Lady Statesmen to three consecutive championships in the early 1970s. She helped integrate the basketball program and the college. Is that the reason why her name and image are so conspicuously absent today?
Source: Pop Matters
1/11/2023
After shifts in African American musical styles, the Great Depression and the Great Migration consigned him to obscurity, Son House recorded live music in the 1960s.
Source: ProPublica
1/11/2023
Why has the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act failed to ensure the return of human remains, funerary artifacts, and other items to tribal authorities?
Source: Religion Dispatches
1/10/2023
The religious right has hijacked the story of Virginia's Statute for Religious Freedom, obscuring the law's intention to prevent the domination of the religious preferences of the powerful.
Source: Jewish Currents
1/10/2023
Conservative Zionists have reached accommodated American evangelicals' demands for a Christian-dominated America in exchange for support for a Jewish greater Israel. The media are reluctant to discuss this connection.
Source: WUFT
1/9/2022
Commemoration of the white vigilante violence and arson against the town of Rosewood prompted the wry observation that the ceremonies brought more Black people to the town than had been there since the events of January 1923.
