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: Bloomberg CityLab
9/8/2021
"That two of Yamasaki’s major buildings would end up as rubble, one by politics, one by terrorists, seemed like the last word. And yet critics’ and historians’ views of the towers, as well as views of Yamasaki’s reputation, have also undergone a series of transformations."
Source: NPR
9/7/2021
"'Conservation never gets old,' says conservator Laura Hartman. There's always an aha! moment.' In this one, when the painting was turned horizontally, x-rays showed another composition underneath. Two draped figures in a landscape."
Source: Tampa Bay Times
9/1/2021
“It’s a place that needs to be remembered,” said Lizzie Jenkins, 82, whose aunt escaped the massacre. “That house is part of who I am.”
Source: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/3/2021
by Emily DiVito and Suzanne Kahn
Since 1948, the filibuster has blocked three major labor reform bills affecting "right to work" laws, streamlining the union recognition process, and protecting workers from retaliation during labor disputes. Eliminating it is critical for economic justice.
Source: New York Post
9/4/2021
After New York State has approved a reparation fund for the surviving prisoners of the 1971 Attica riots, is it time for similar justice for the employees caught in the violence of the state's response?
Source: Washington Post
9/5/2021
Attorney General Merrick Garland has the legal authority, established in laws to fight the KKK, to punish private citizens who interfere with access to constitutionally protected healthcare.
Source: ABC News
9/5/2021
Both Portland's current image as a progressive city and Oregon's historical origins as an explicitly white supremacist state make the city a focal point for far right groups and white nationalists.
Source: New York Times
9/6/2021
"In episodic chapters that read like self-contained short stories woven together into a whole, Turner seeks to understand how three Black girls with very similar aspirations ended up with wildly divergent fates."
Source: EdSurge
9/6/2021
"More than a decade after the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Moses realized that the next frontier was economic justice, and that fluency in math and science was the springboard for peoples of color and low-income whites to be full citizens, fully enfranchised—the civil rights issue of the 21st century."
Source: Los Angeles Times
9/5/2021
It's difficult to swallow the idea that Progressive era governor Hiram Johnson would have countenanced the idea that the recall system he championed could allow a minority of voters to throw out a governor who recently was elected with 62 percent of the votes cast.
Source: New York Times
8/31/2021
by Tara Haelle
The antivax movement has appropriated common-sense ideas like parental control and bodily autonomy to sow widespread fear and hostility toward the COVID-19 vaccinations.
Source: Biloxi Sun-Herald
9/2/2011
The Forest Heights neighborhood of Gulfport, Mississippi was redeveloped in the 1960s as one of the first racially integrated developments promoting home ownership. Like the rest of historically Black north Gulfport, it is threatened by more frequent flooding.
Source: Vanity Fair
8/30/2021
The new anthology "tells the story of American history from 1979 to 2013 through the eyes of the young Black Americans who changed it profoundly."
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
8/31/2021
Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Neil Steinberg offers some cold comfort: media voices spreading misinformation about COVID vaccinations have clear forebears in the press.
Source: The Nation
8/31/2021
The Pirates' lineup 50 years ago was composed of African American and Afro-Latino players, and offers an occasion to reflect on the changing position of Black players in baseball and of baseball in Black America.
Source: Times of Israel
8/27/2021
New forensic research techniques could fill in missing details of the progress of Nazi nuclear weapons programs and improve contemporary efforts to enforce nuclear nonproliferation.
Source: NPR
8/31/2021
"Northam granted the pardons after a meeting with the descendants of the Martinsville Seven. He said the pardons do not address whether the men were guilty, but rather serve "as recognition from the Commonwealth" that they were tried without adequate due process."
Source: The Atlantic
8/27/2021
Director Nia DaCosta, with co-writers Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, has turned the problematic racial framing of its predecessor on its head, and casts critical light on the treatment of Black characters throughout the history of film.
Source: Tropics of Meta
8/27/2021
by Brian Dunlap
"Memorial Day 1920. A young African American chauffeur, Arthur Valentine, settled on “Whites Only” Topanga Beach. With friends and family, he stepped from his truck. Three sheriff’s deputies demanded that they leave."
Source: New York Times
8/27/2021
by Eleni Schirmer
The political decision to fund schools by borrowing is perverse; rather than taxing the wealthy, school districts pay them interest, and poor schools pay more.
