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: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/6/2022
An investigation documents the way that academic freedom has been subordinated to the presumed interests of the State of Florida (as aggressively determined by the administration of Governor Ron DeSantis).
Source: CNN
9/7/2022
Until recently, the Cherokee National History Museum in Oklahoma did not acknowledge slave ownership by tribal members or the efforts of the descendants of the enslaved to claim tribal membership.
Source: Thirteen
9/6/2022
The new documentary examines the nation's response to Jewish refugees in the context of Southern Jim Crow policies and global racism and antisemitism.
Source: The New Republic
9/6/2022
There are relatively few Americans living today whose parents were harassed or jailed for performing illegal abortions. Their stories should inform the debate today.
Source: New York Times
9/8/2022
It's time to stop expanding the urban highways that divide communities, perpetuate racial segregation and harm health, and to consider removing them entirely, argues one architectural designer.
Source: The New Yorker
9/5/2022
by Adam Gopnik
Critic Adam Gopnik examines two recent books on alternatives to representative democracy that respond to the recent use of institutions by power-seeking authoritarians.
Source: The Atlantic
9/7/2022
The libel standards established by New York Times v. Sullivan are a target for conservatives who loathe the media. If they had their way Fox News would be in big trouble.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/2/2022
by Richard Thompson Ford
The cause of equality was dealt a fatal blow when courts and colleges shifted the focus of affirmative action from fighting racism to promoting diversity, argues legal scholar Richard Thompson Ford.
Source: Jacobin
9/2/2022
Workers are doing more for less, and have been for decades. Industry knows this; they're worried that workers are beginning to understand it, too.
Source: The Atlantic
9/6/2022
Despite political rhetoric from some quarters, suburbanization has been undermining the association of Black America with central cities – in large part because of the disinvestment and abandonment of urban communities.
Source: The Guardian
9/4/2022
Looking beyond iconic and high-profile women in the movement, a new book examines the organizing energy ordinary Black women brought to, and the empowerment they often took from, the Black Panther Party.
Source: Washington Post
9/4/2022
by Gillian Brockell
The Anarchy, an English war of succession that lasted from 1138 to 1153, is part of the narrative inspiration for the new fantasy series.
Source: Virginia Public Media
9/2/2022
"In a shift from a multi-year effort to tell a more complete history of the mansion, visitors won’t be taken to a building next to the mansion where enslaved workers once slept and toiled. And in two tours on Friday, docents made no mention of slavery at all."
Source: NBC News
9/4/2022
“The best way I can describe how we have found things is in the most inhumane way possible,” Laine Lyons said. “Just completely disregarded that these were once people.”
Source: Associated Press
9/1/2022
The Polish government referenced a recently completed report documenting the costs to Poland of war, and argued that reconciliation between the nations could best be served by a payment.
Source: Jacobin
9/5/2022
Read Debs's 1903 Labor Day Address in its entirety.
Source: Washington Post
9/4/2022
The True Reformer Building in Washington is likely the first in the nation to be designed, funded, built and owned by African Americans as part of a comprehensive mission of economic and social self-reliance and uplift in the early 20th century.
Source: Harper's Bazaar
9/1/2022
by Kaitlyn Greenidge
The two sides of Mississippi's history are its exploitative oligarchy and the efforts of Black Mississippians and their allies to imagine egalitarian alternatives against the odds. Activists' responses to the collapse of the Jackson water infrastructure will test that spirit.
Source: Los Angeles Times
8/27/2022
"Strivers, grinders and hustlers hate them, but quiet quitters, slackers and work-to-rulers are treasured antiheroes in American folk culture."
Source: New York Times
8/31/2022
“She shamed you out of bourgeois confidence, then devoted selfless time to your progressive re-education,” Professor David Levering Lewis said.
