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: The Root
6-5-17
The battle against Confederate symbols and memorials was brought to the forefront of national conversation almost exactly two years ago when white supremacist Dylann Roof killed nine black parishioners and injured several others in a historic black church in Charleston, S.C.
Source: NPR
6-4-17
This week marks the 50th Anniversary of the Arab-Israeli Six Day War. Michel Martin speaks with Jane Eisner, editor of The Forward, about Israelis' feelings toward marking the event.
Source: Newsweek
5-28-17
The book is by Antonio Veciana, the CIA’s man in Havana.
Source: National Security Archive
6-2-17
It's history worth remembering as we head into a new clash between Congress and the presidency.
Source: Time Magazine
5-31-17
"Game of Thrones does dramatize nicely some fundamental things going on in medieval courts.”
Source: The Boston Globe
6-3-17
Among the statues some are raising questions about is one for Columbus. Another is one honoring historian Samuel Eliot Morison.
Source: Arutz Sheva
6-3-17
Estonian politician running for election promises to 'decriminalize' Holocaust denial and 'correct' education on Third Reich history.
Source: USA Today
6-2-17
A section of rope was found near the MLK Memorial in Washington on Friday, two days after a noose was discovered inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
6-2-17
The book offers a mostly pictorial walk though the secrets, struggles and triumphs of Utah's gay community, from the anti-gay territorial laws that put men in prison in the late 1800s to the city's first gay bars, early gay pride celebrations and the legalization of gay marriage.
Source: Reuters
6-2-17
For generations, young Americans could go all the way through high school without learning that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have long been part of their country's history.
Source: Time Magazine
6-2-17
Muhammad Ali's public conversion to Islam, in 1964, was among the most defining moments of his remarkable life.
Source: The Guardian
6-1-17
Nearly two centuries of exclusion, violence and intimidation have resulted in the whitest major city in the United States, in a state that has in the past been fertile ground for the growth of extremism.
Source: NYT
6-3-17
“It’s the last secret of the 1967 war.”
Source: The Boston Globe
6-2-17
Fifty years ago today, 3 days of riots convulsed Roxbury, as the civil rights tumult of the ‘60s finally reached here. It was the violent beginning to an era of change whose end is still not in sight...
Source: Places Journal
6-2-17 (accessed)
It’s considered a preservation crisis.
Source: The Harvard Gazette
5-30-17
The authors found that widespread environmental pollution did not begin with the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s and 1800s.
Source: NYT
6-1-17
Back channels during presidential transitions are not unprecedented, but they are always fraught, as President Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, have discovered in recent weeks.
Source: U.S. News & World Report
5-31-17
A noose, a symbol of racial lynching, was found on Wednesday on the floor of an exhibit about segregation at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution officials said.
Source: National Security Archive
6-1-17
Carter faced pushback from South Korean leaders and his own top advisors.
Source: Al-Fanar Media
5-26-17
A campaign to restore the holdings of the library of the University of Mosul has received an enthusiastic response since it began three months ago.
