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: NBC News
4/4/2022
by Kim Kelly
The radical Black waterfront worker and organizer Ben Fletcher established a model of a democratic, antiracist, integrated labor union on Philadelphia's waterfront that echoes in the worker-led victory in establishing a union at Amazon's Staten Island warehouse.
Source: Washington Post
4/5/2022
by Max Brooks, Lionel Beehner and John Spencer
"If we want to help the Ukrainian resistance, we shouldn’t be sending them only Javelins and body armor. They need emergency supplies — bulk sanitation items such as alcohol-based hand sanitizer, ammonium nitrate to counter food-borne illness, and rat traps and poisons."
Source: Religion Dispatches
4/4/2022
King's famous Riverside Church speech on April 4, 1967 marked the leader's decisive opposition to the war in Vietnam and reflected his moral clarity and willingness to take unpopular positions in the pursuit of justice by calling out racism, capitalism and militarism as three intertwined evils.
Source: Washington Post
4/1/2022
“Oklahoma’s Black communities are overdue,” said Mayor Currin, 38, a fourth-generation Tullahassee resident. “Tullahassee has always been in a fight, always fighting to exist and always fighting to thrive."
Source: NPR
3/29/2022
A key for Putin's consolidation of power was not eliminating the post-Soviet oligarchy but shaking it down for protection money and political obedience.
Source: PEN America
3/28/2022
"Your message is strongest when you can affirm what most people already believe about students’ right to learn."
Source: Bloomberg
3/30/2022
The journalist cited historian Timothy Snyder's argument that authoritarianism relies on restricting national understanding of civic identity in ways that serve existing power.
Source: Foreign Policy
3/20/2022
by Mark Hannah
Editorial choices made by influential news organizations can push policy in the direction of more aggressive intervention. A media scholar asks why those organizations have consistently chosen to boost the voices of advocates for war.
Source: Ms.
3/29/2022
"In every facet of hip hop music and culture, women have been innovating and setting new precedents, yet most connoisseurs of hip hop remain unaware of how women have actively shaped its culture and music from inception."
Source: WNYC
3/29/2022
Recent reporting from the American Association of University Professors has traced an uptick in the targeted harassment of faculty members, most often those accused of having a liberal bias and of teaching “controversial” topics. Melissa Harris-Perry talks with faculty who have experienced it.
Source: Washington Post
3/25/2022
"Matt Reeves, the director of archaeology said he fears the effort to cut off the committee is aimed at undoing years of progress in conveying a more honest and complete view of history. 'They really want a narrative that’s restricted to nothing that’s negative about James Madison'.”
Source: Washington Post
3/25/2022
If you have written a book about racism, policing, or other controversial issues, your best promotional strategy is to have Senator Cruz wave your book around in a televised Senate hearing.
Source: The Atlantic
3/24/2022
by Anthony Beevor
"Astonishingly, the Russian army is repeating the past mistakes of its Soviet predecessor."
Source: Foreign Policy
3/28/2022
Madeleine Albright's path to being Secretary of State began with her experiences fleeing Prague twice – to escape both Nazism and Stalinism.
Source: ArcDigital
3/27/2022
"When identifying a national problem, presumably in pursuit of national solutions, the details matter a lot."
Source: Washington Post
3/25/2022
by Melissa Murray
Conservative skepticism of "unenumerated rights" indicates that they seek a judicial regime that peels back a host of rights implicit in the constitution that protect intimate freedom and the liberty of minority groups.
Source: WNYC
3/25/2022
The writer Franklin Foer heard echoes of a family history in Putin's claims to "denazify" Ukraine. He went to Ukraine to investigate the story.
Source: Cultural Heritage Partners
3/25/2022
by Montpelier Descendants Committee
Montpelier Descendants' Committee founder James French contends that the group "will not be deterred from our mission to contribute to uniting the country by telling a more complete and truthful history of our founding, including the full role of its indispensable ‘invisible founders'.”
Source: American Historical Association
3/27/2022
The AHA needs to hear directly from history teachers in states where content-based legislation has passed to help develp responses to protect the integrity of history teaching.
Source: HuffPost
3/24/2022
No less an authority than rocker Gene Simmons was among those letting the Tennessee Republican know that she was deeply confused about the nation's founding documents.
