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: Washington Post
2/13/2022
by H.A. Hellyer and Farid Senzai
It's unconscionable to punish ordinary Afghans, who were themselves victimized by the Taliban, by seizing frozen bank funds as restitution to the families of 9/11 victims.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
2/14/2022
A massive public outcry pushed the university's trustees to name the building solely after Lucy, without the name of former governor and Klansman Bibb Graves.
Source: Scalawag
2/11/2022
After the devastating flooding of 1927, and an indifferent response from the government, another flood of songs of protest and resilience ensued, creating a southern musical and cultural tradition.
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
2/14/2022
The Utah Senator is blocking unanimous consent rules for a bill that would establish a historic site commemorating the internment of 8,000 Japanese Americans at Camp Amache in Colorado.
Source: CNN
2/8/2022
Without stating whether such action would proceed, North Carolina's elections authority affirmed that it has the power to bar Rep. Madison Cawthorn from seeking reelection if his actions on January 6 are determined to amount to support for insurrection.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
2/9/2022
Just after 38 Harvard faculty penned an open letter of support for Professor John Comaroff, a lawsuit by three graduate students against him and the university was announced. The allegations describe a repeated pattern of harassment and institutional protection for an abuser.
Source: Politico
2/10/2022
by Aziz Huq
Republicans won't support any Biden nominee, even a moderate. Instead, Biden should put forward a judge who is bold enough to put a stamp on the law in dissent and shift dominant interpretations to the left.
Source: Washington Post
2/7/2022
The governor's efforts to attack what he calls "wokeness" in Florida schools is putting Ron DeSantis on a collision course with millions of teachers, students and residents in a state where multiculturalism has been part of the past and is the reality of the present.
Source: Washington Post
2/8/2022
An Arizona company thought it could rake in $40 million a year in revenues by operating schools promoted by the conservative agitator, but withdrew as experts warned of ideological influence and the possibility the venture was a cash-in on a hot culture war issue.
Source: Rolling Stone
2/9/2022
Her brief marriage to jazz great Miles Davis and ultimate withdrawal from the music business have overshadowed Betty Davis's legacy as a songwriter and performer with lasting influence beyond her album sales.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
2/10/2022
Social media are enabling like-minded parents to network and amplify calls to remove books from schools and libraries. Experts argue that parents' success will fail children's intellectual development and college readiness.
Source: Washington Post
2/8/2022
Post columnist Jonathan Capehart points out a flagrant oversight in the recent state bills to ban "uncomfortable" discussions of racism in history and social studies classes.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
2/8/2022
The University of Florida claimed it was a conflict of interest for Michael McDonald to work as a paid consultant on a voting rights case while on the UF payroll. But he wasn't allowed to take unpaid leave to testify.
Source: Governing
2/9/2022
Since the 1986 ruling in Thornburg v. Gingles, the Supreme Court has held that states must create districts where minority voters have a reasonable chance of electing their candidate of choice. SCOTUS is poised to overthrow that standard, gutting another provision of the Voting Rights Act.
Source: Wired
2/8/2022
“The greatest trick that capitalism ever pulled was convincing the world that what women do in the home isn’t work,” says Joy Rankin, a historian of computing.
Source: WUFT
2/7/2022
The Johns Committee of the 1950s and 1960s investigated UF faculty on behalf of the Florida legislature. Their brief was to connect communism and the civil rights movement; they ended up engineering the firing of 15 professors for their sexual orientation.
Source: The New Republic
2/7/2022
by Jeffrey C. Isaac
As an activist and later a chronicler of Students for a Democratic Society, Todd Gitlin shaped the path and the legacy of the New Left.
Source: The New Yorker
2/2/2022
The Museum of Food and Drink has salvaged and reconstructed the test kitchen from Ebony Magazine for display at an exhibition at the Africa Center in Harlem this month, preserving a key site in Black culinary and cultural history.
Source: The Atlantic
2/8/2022
by Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath
Like in the New Deal era, courts are thwarting the will of many Americans and the other branches of government to protect oligarchy. Today's progressives need to remember how their forebears fought back by contrasting concentrated wealth to the guarantee of a "republican form of government" the constituiton offers.
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
2/4/2022
Columnist Michael Paul Williams writes that the decision to turn Confederate memorial statues over to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia shows the arc of the universe bending toward justice, but taking an occasional turn through irony.
