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: DCist
12/30/2021
“We want to be a place where the stories of our community are uplifted and celebrated and given the spotlight — particularly because so many of those residents are African Americans who have seen so much change happen without their input,” says Reginald Douglas, Mosaic’s new artistic director.
Source: Washington Post
12/30/2021
Marland Buckner, interim executive director of the Black History Museum, said in the release that his institution “takes very seriously the responsibility to manage these objects in ways that ensure their origins and purpose are never forgotten: that is the glorification of those who led the fight to enslave African Americans and destroy the Union.”
Source: Washington Post
1/4/2022
“I think the tragedy is that we have a Congress with a Senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting. They won’t let the majority senators vote."
Source: Washington Post
1/4/2022
“It is only right that where offences have been abolished, convictions for consensual activity between same-sex partners should be disregarded too,” British Home Secretary Priti Patel said in a statement.
Source: The Nation
1/3/2021
by David E. Gumpert
Jailing and silencing Hitler after the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 nearly destroyed the National Socialist movement. Without significant punishment, will the plotters of the January 6 putsch be able to repeat the Nazis' second, successful power grab?
Source: New York Times
12/17/2021
Chile's right-wing dictatorship took hundreds – possibly thousands – of infants from their families and concealed the facts of their birth from them.
Source: Protean
12/17/2021
by Ryan Zickgraf
Mobile's current municipal elections combined the bizarre with the bureaucratic and institutional politics of racism.
Source: Editorial Board
12/21/2021
Christopher Jon Sprigman of NYU Law discusses the oral arguments in Carson v. Makin, and how the conservatives on the Court seem to be maximizing "free exercise" over "establishment."
Source: Washington Post
12/21/2021
by William Hanage
"Hope is not an effective strategy for dealing with a pandemic. Two years in, we should all know that."
Source: New York Times
12/20/2021
"He received more campaign donations from the oil, coal and gas industries than any other senator in the current election cycle."
Source: Al Jazeera
12/19/2021
"Were the real killers working with the FBI? And is that why the FBI withheld the information? What does it say that the only witnesses who placed Aziz and Islam at the scene of the crime were FBI informants?"
Source: Smithsonian
12/14/2021
Father Gilles Drouin argues that “the cathedral has always been open to art from the contemporary period."
Source: New York Times
12/19/2021
"At 35, Mr. Boric will be the nation’s youngest leader and by far its most liberal since President Salvador Allende, who died by suicide during the 1973 military coup that ushered in a brutal 17-year dictatorship."
Source: New York Times
12/19/2021
"A bloody history of American influence looms large, and a century of U.S. efforts to stabilize and develop the country have ultimately ended in failure."
Source: Elle
12/15/2021
by Gila Berryman
"What kind of role model was I? I was a Black woman teaching working-class Black and brown students the importance of learning to write clearly so they could get a good job, yet I couldn’t support myself on my own salary."
Source: New York Times
12/17/2021
Si Spiegel's survival as a bomber pilot was a tough act to follow, but pioneering the artificial Christmas tree may have topped his martial exploits.
Source: WBUR
12/16/2021
Host Lisa Mullins speaks with Min Jin Lee, award-winning author and former student of hooks, about the legacy hooks leaves behind.
Source: CNN
12/16/2021
An interdisciplinary group of scholars including Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Angie Maxwell, and Andra Gillespie discuss the advances, setbacks and new battles in the struggle for justice in 2021.
Source: The New Republic
12/14/2021
by Rebecca Nathanson
"The 3,000-person strike at Columbia University is the largest active strike in the U.S. and marks a decades-long struggle to recognize grad-student labor," as Rebecca Nathanson explains.
Source: New York Magazine
12/15/2021
"As for Florida teachers, why would any of them invite a lawsuit from the local MAGA commissar by suggesting their nation was anything other than the divinely blessed paradise of freedom and opportunity?"
