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
12-9-17
President Trump’s presence jolted the opening of a civil rights museum, generating boycotts from some leaders in the movement and small protests by activists as the state’s attempt to confront its racially violent past clashed with more recent divisions wrought by Mr. Trump’s presidency.
Source: Time Magazine
12-8-18
Here's why that's a big deal.
Source: The Root
12-7-17
It is unclear who’s responsible for posting the flyers, but they came in two varieties: the first, a personal attack against a Jewish resident of the city of Princeton; the second, an advertisement for a fake course at the university called, “Introduction to White Studies: White Guilt and Reparations.”
Source: The Washington Post
12-7-17
It’s more than you’d think.
Source: NYT
12-6-17
The 1917 blast after a collision between a French munitions ship and a Norwegian vessel killed about 2,000 people and leveled part of the Canadian city.
Source: NYT
12-5-17
By denying deductions for state and local taxes, the Republicans seek to force high-tax states run by Democrats to capitulate.
Source: NYT
12-5-17
A number of young activists are busily putting together protests — a silent kneel-in, possibly, or a street demonstration — in a parallel of the history chronicled in the museum itself.
Source: NYT
12-6-17
Some think Prime Minister Hun Sen considers himself the reincarnation of a 16th-century ruler. Recently built statues certainly suggest a resemblance.
Source: WSJ
12-5-17
Bank executive met with nearly every world leader for 50 years, filled out some 200,000 note cards.
Source: The Post and Courier
12-5-17
The university's trustees voted in April to erect the markers, in part a response to student protests in 2015 that bemoaned the lack of emphasis on diversity on campus.
Source: CBS News
12-5-17
For nearly 70 years, one man has pointed his lens at the country's most important events and people. When Bobby Kennedy was shot, Harry Benson was there.
Source: NYT
12-2-17
In an open letter published on Friday by Hyperallergic, more than 120 academics and artists have urged Mayor Bill de Blasio to remove five public monuments and markers they say celebrate racism.
Source: NYT
12-3-17
Here’s the history.
Source: The Washington Post
12-1-17
In 1647 the Puritans banned Christmas in Boston because it was seen as nothing more than an unholy pagan ritual.
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
12-2-17
Richmond Virginia broke ground on the first phase of the Virginia Women’s Monument, Voices from the Garden.
Source: NYT
11-28-17
Two years ago representatives from Southern state tourism departments gathered at Georgia State University to start work on what would become the nation’s first civil rights trail.
Source: Newsweek
12-14-17
An archaeological inspection of Greer Stadium in Nashville found a “high likelihood of human remains.”
Source: The Washington Post
12-4-17
Trump’s personal lawyer John Dowd sought to excuse the president’s tweet in part by telling Axios and NBC News on Monday that the “president cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under [the Constitution’s Article II] and has every right to express his view of any case.”
Source: NYT
12-4-17
Drawing support from moderate liberal Republicans and liberal Democrats, Mr. Anderson held the spotlight for a while before voters turned to candidates who they believed could actually win.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
12-4-17
The president’s actions were a dramatic departure from conventional interpretations of the 1906 Antiquities Act, on which the monument designations are based.
