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: Inside Higher Ed
10/11/2022
Sasse was cagey about his thoughts on legislation like Florida's "Stop WOKE" act and suggested he would be vigilant against "indoctrination" in the classroom. Faculty questioned his commitment to tenure and student protesters decried what they saw as a partisan political appointment.
Source: Vanity Fair
10/11/2022
The pop superstar touches on numerous subjects, including making history belong to everyone and the historical relationship of racist and sexist stereotyping of Black women's performances looking back to Josephine Baker.
Source: NPR
10/8/2022
Although he was paid to sketch the proceedings for decades, Art Lien believes the time has come for cameras in the SCOTUS chambers.
Source: Washington Post
10/9/2022
Dominant in African American tennis (and basketball) competition, Washington never had the opportunity to test her ability against the champions of the white tennis establishment.
Source: NPR
10/10/2022
"Native Land Digital, an Indigenous-led nonprofit based in Canada, is working to facilitate such conversations and document this history including by putting together a searchable map of Native territories, languages and treaties."
Source: Axios
10/10/2022
The project hopes to build a publicly accessible database of documents to allow descendants of enslaved indigenous people to locate information about their ancestors.
Source: Democracy Now!
10/10/2022
Indigenous musician and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie has written and sung about the struggles of Native American and First Nations peoples for decades.
Source: Washington Post
10/5/2022
Even without a vote in Congress, Delegates can use the privileges of their position to make a difference. Kimberly Teehee's potential seating as the Cherokee Nation's delegate would create a dedicated voice for Native issues.
Source: The Guardian
10/6/2022
Both demographic change in the North and shifts in United Kingdom politics have made Irish reunification a reasonable possibility to discuss.
Source: Washington Post
10/2/2022
As yet, public attacks on libraries over programming and books dealing with racism and LGBTQ issues have not escalated to the routine firebombing of the libraries founded by activist groups during the "Freedom Summer" to help Black Mississippians access books and political information.
Source: NPR
10/4/2022
The satirical newspaper's brief employed the rhetorical mode to lay out the free speech implications of a case involving a man who faced retaliatory arrest for making a parody facebook account for his local police department.
Source: NPR
10/6/2022
An outcry by parents and alumni of Grove City College after a speaking inviation to historian Jemar Tisby, a critic of racism in American Christianity, exemplifies the pressures facing religious institiutions from conservative forces inside and outside.
Source: NPR
10/5/2022
The segregation of Anglo and Mexican students in Texas was not always enforced by law, but local custom and prejudice was sufficient in many places.
Source: New York Times
10/5/2022
by Michael Dobbs
The danger of nuclear brinksmanship is not that any one leader is irrational or intransigent, but that even rational leaders can't always control events they set in motion.
Source: The New Yorker
9/22/2022
A Minnesota antiques dealer's mistake in identifying historical photos in a donated album intersected with the virality of social media and the still-raw international resentments over Japanese atrocities during its conquest and occupation of China to create a fake history furor.
Source: Mother Jones
10/4/2022
The new Associate Justice pushed back against the idea that the writers of the 14th Amendment intended for it to ensure "color-blind" treatment of voters rather than an affirmative defense of racially inclusive political participation.
Source: New York Times
9/27/2022
Some estimate that tens of thousands of babies were taken from poor mothers and secretly sold to elite Catholic families, with compliant government officials providing documentary cover.
Source: The Bulwark
10/4/2022
Commentator Mona Charen writes that Lizzo's embrace of an artifact of the founding generation should be welcomed by conservatives, who claim to stand for a history shared by all Americans without regard for identity.
Source: NPR
9/27/2022
Margaret Burnham has been appointed by President Biden to a five-person Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board to increase public access to records of unsolved racially motivated crimes.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/28/2022
by Jonathan Marks
Turning Point USA is now a $40 million a year behemoth. Its influence is steering campus conservative culture to the conspiratorial and extreme, "more Alex Jones than Allan Bloom."
