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: Wall Street Journal
2/23/2022
Putin's aggression, and western failures to blunt it, spread the dangerous lesson that nations are safer if they keep (or develop) the most dangerous weapons.
Source: CBS News
2/22/2022
Polling shows Americans reject banning books that address racism and believe in the value of difficult lessons.
Source: The Real News Network
2/22/2022
Emily Drabinsky is running for the presidency of the American Library Association to defend some of our most vital public institutions.
Source: Baltimore Sun
2/18/2022
From its sympathies for slavery and the Confederate cause to support for disenfranchisment and coverage of crime that has given the views of the police priority over the voices of the city's Black communities, the newspaper acknowleges its role in inequality.
Source: The New Republic
2/18/2022
Will American politicians repeat the error of asking who "lost China" instead of asking whether it was ours to lose?
Source: Texas Tribune
2/18/2022
The call makes explicit that academic freedom is on shaky ground in Texas.
Source: WTOP
2/21/2022
The project will create the largest and most accessible archive of historical Black newspaper content in the world.
Source: BBC
2/22/2022
The remains of children buried in a mass unmarked grave in Tuam, County Galway, could be exhumed later this year under newly-published legislation.
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists
2/15/2022
Hazel Johnson was pushed to environmental justice activism when her husband's cancer death made her aware of the toll of industrial pollution on her Chicago neighborhood. Today, it remains important to connect environmental protection and social justice.
Source: The New Republic
2/15/2022
Western powers have precipitated the possible war over Ukraine not by seeking to expand NATO but by allowing the unchecked reign of kleptocrats since the end of the Cold War.
Source: Washington Post
2/14/2022
Black citizens in Natchez, Mississippi secretly organized for community self-defense in 1965, risking certain reprisals from local whites. Wharlest Jackson was killed by a car bomb in an act of intimidation that was never solved.
Source: BET
2/14/2022
The outreach to collect family stories is part of the efforts by the Cherokee Nation to address slaveholding and the exclusion of Black descendants from tribal membership.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
2/14/2022
Two AJC reporters offer a guide to those interested in marking Black History Month with a tour of Alabama's major civil rights sites, memorials and museums.
Source: The Atlantic
2/8/2022
Of all the major taste categories, the relationship between human thriving and sensing sourness is the least understood.
Source: Washington Post
2/14/2022
Few new laws have (yet) impacted the curriculum or resulted in the prosecution of teachers. But nevertheless, history and social studies teachers across America report a real chilling effect from laws that subject them to community surveillance and censure.
Source: Foreign Affairs
2/16/2022
by Eric Merkley
Canadian politics, until recently, seemed free of the kind of extreme sorting taking place in other democracies, where partisan affiliation, cultural values, and religious or ethnic identity all align closely. The Ottawa protests show cracks in the nation's liberal order that the far right is trying to exploit, says a political scientist.
Source: Paste
2/14/2022
Writer Garrett Martin identifies the key sites on a tour of civil rights history institutions in Atlanta, Alabama, Memphis and Washington.
Source: Vulture
2/14/2022
The graphic memoirist says that the Tennessee controversy probably doesn't reflect any antisemitic bigotry, but a desire to find a catharsis that fixes the horror of the Holocaust instead of recognizing it as ongoing.
Source: Reuters
2/15/2022
As national conservative groups have mobilized voters and resources around the idea that schools are under seige by radical leftist indoctrination, some school board members have experienced death threats and other serious harassment.
Source: The New Republic
2/14/2022
Harm reduction policies are evidence-based and proven to reduce the negative impacts of drug abuse, which makes the effort to turn them into a culture war particularly discouraging.
