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: Time
2/22/19
Miller created deeply empathetic images with a understated, yet unmistakable anti-racist intent.
Source: New Haven Register
2/28/19
And how it grew from a day to a week to a month.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
2/27/19
Faculty proposal would split a U.S. history and ideals required sequence across the CSU system. Historians aren't happy with the idea.
Source: Science Daily
2/27/19
Photo Sleuth may help uncover the mysteries of nearly 4 million photographs of Civil War-era images.
Source: Washington Post
2/27/19
Leroy Moton was riding in a car with civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo when she was shot to death after the third Selma to Montgomery march, in 1965.
Source: Time
2/26/19
By the time the United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917, two thousand women had enlisted as “Yeoman (F).”
Source: NY Times
2/24/19
Garrett Morgan created an improved gas mask. Marie Van Brittan Brown patented a home security system. Lonnie Johnson dreamed up the Super Soaker.
Source: The Conversation
2/27/19
by Jane Landers
These records date back to the 1590s and document some of the earliest black history of the U.S.
Source: CNN
2/26/19
It began as an effort to make government more transparent.
Source: OZY
2/26/19
Rebecca Crumpler wrote one of the first American medical guides to offer advice for women and children.
Source: The Conversation
2/25/19
by Taylor McNeilly
Walker was hailed as “one of the keenest minds of the nonviolent revolution” by none less than King himself.
Source: Time
2/25/19
While many supporters of Green Book believe it’s a clever inversion of old tropes, its detractors see its victory as a continuation of the Oscars rewarding a familiarly naive story, told from a familiarly white viewpoint.
Source: Washington Post
2/20/19
The North, the South and the forgotten origins of racial separation.
Source: The Economist
2/25/19
The fund for victims of the terrorist attack is struggling to meet all claims.
Source: Fox News
2/23/19
The Civil War soldier’s headstone offers an insight into the lives of those buried at the Frankford site.
Source: NPR
2/24/19
Eleven tribes have traditional ties to the Grand Canyon.
Source: Charlotte Observer
2/24/19
“There aren’t a lot of physical resources to connect us to enslaved people here. It’s a way to put your finger in those fingerprints and and feel connected."
Source: Express-News
2/23/19
Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican-Americans routinely occurred in Texas, some of it even into the 1960s.
Source: Forbes
2/22/19
There were some significant differences between blacks and whites in terms of their knowledge of the figures the pollsters examined with blacks being more knowledgeable in almost every case.
Source: The Hill
2/21/19
"We have to be honest that people in this country do not start from the same place or have access to the same opportunities," Harris said in the statement.
