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: NYT
3-28-18
The Chilean government said it would start an inquiry into whether the remains of a tiny baby girl were illegally exhumed and smuggled out of the country.
Source: The Boston Globe
3-27-18
The John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, created in 1989, is presented annually to public servants “who have made courageous decisions of conscience without regard for the personal or professional consequences.”
Source: The Washington Post
3-27-18
In September 1950, a black father took his 7-year-old daughter by the hand and walked briskly for four blocks to an all-white school in their Topeka, Kan., neighborhood.
Source: History channel
3-26-18
The revelation that a shady political consulting firm called Cambridge Analytica accessed data from 50 million Facebook users without their consent has rekindled debates about privacy and surveillance.
Source: Newsweek
3-27-18
The discovery confirmed that up to a million people lived in an area of the Amazon spanning just 7 percent of the basin before the arrival of Europeans.
Source: Middle East Eye
3-15-18
Baghdad’s libraries were looted and burned in the chaos of 2003, but one of its libraries escaped this fate and a historic collection survived.
Source: The Washington Post
3-26-18
As in Vietnam, students have a stake in this fight.
Source: Smithsonian
3-23-18
Preservationists say they have identified the home of famed black abolitionist William Still, who offered refuge to hundreds of freedom seekers.
Source: Time Magazine
3-23-18
But Not How You’d Expect
Source: Time Magazine
3-23-18
A search of available public records found that Clarence William Donnor, a Navy radio technician believed to have been among the Indianapolis crew, had continued to serve until he was discharged in 1946. But he wasn’t a 317th survivor. In fact, he had not been on the ship in the first place.
Source: Smithsonian
3-20-18
Many Parisians hated the Eiffel Tower when it was first erected in 1889. Although it may seem impossible now, the sentiment is perhaps more believable when you consider that the monument was originally painted red.
Source: NY Review of Books
3-23-18
It’s reminiscent of Communist-era censorship.
Source: History channel
3-23-18
The short-lived operation used military-style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants—some of them American citizens—from the United States.
Source: Vice
3-23-18
David Pilgrim started collecting racist objects when he was a boy of 12 living in Alabama at the tail end of the Jim Crow era. And now, the 64-year-old sociologist's items comprise one of the largest collections of racist memorabilia in the country.
Source: ctpost
3-25-18
But what may be more interesting is that only 2 school districts in the country require all students starting to take a half-year course in African-American Studies, Caribbean/Latin-American Studies or Perspectives on Race to graduate.
Source: Smithsonian
3-22-18
To better understand the nation’s most aggressive eugenic sterilization program, our research team tracked sterilization requests of over 20,000 people.
Source: Smithsonian
3-25-18
The relics came from ancient Antioch and were buried by museum officials in 1989 for storage purposes.
Source: Expatica
3-22-18
Polish victims of World War II should be able to claim 440 billion euros ($543 billion) from Germany in World War II damages, the head of a parliamentary commission said.
Source: The Washington Post
3-20-18
A team funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen recently discovered the wreckage of the USS Juneau 2.6 miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, near the Solomon Islands.
Source: NPR
3/22/18
National security adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster is leaving the Trump administration and will retire from the army this summer.
