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
8/16/2021
The tendency to filter a complex and historically deep story through the perspective of short-term political advantage has been on full display this week, says the Post's media columnist.
Source: Harper's
8/17/2021
Today's concern with "disinformation" has roots in the postwar advertising industry, but do programs to fight it repeat faulty ideas about information and persuasion that admen created to persuade companies their ads would work?
Source: MSNBC
8/17/2021
The program to bring Vietnamese refugees to America after 1975 was unpopular when it passed. It was still right, argues Hayes Brown.
Source: The Atlantic
8/13/2021
Did the Founders intend freedom to mean rejecting sacrifice for the common good? The Governator says that's ridiculous.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
8/16/2021
"Jeannette Eileen Jones, associate professor of history and ethnic studies at the flagship Lincoln campus, said it's "disingenuous" to paint discussions involving critical race theory or race in general as divisive or anti-American."
Source: Washington Post
8/17/2021
The stories of nine Black baseball players, from Hall of Famer Willie Mays to up-and-coming Tim Anderson, reveal much about changes in the game and the nation.
Source: NPR
8/15/2021
Wazmah Osman of Temple University discusses how the weekend's events, when the fall of Kabul seemed imminent, and explains why the Taliban's defeat was illusory.
Source: Times of Israel
8/17/2021
"Why take 90 minutes to warn everyone yet again about Hitler, they wonder, when every mention of him only seems to do more harm than good?"
Source: TIME
8/16/2021
"First, we must learn and understand the history, culture, and languages of any country in which we seek to intervene – be that militarily or economically."
Source: New York Times
8/16/2021
Booker Wright, a Black waiter, shocked the community of Greenwood by shedding his genial tableside manner to tell a documentary crew about the burdens of racial subordination. After the film aired, he was assaulted by a police officer and his bar was vandalized.
Source: CNN
8/10/2021
The 1967 march from Bogalusa to Baton Rouge covered 107 miles in response to racist violence in the state. It is now represented by a marker on Louisiana's new Civil Rights Trail.
Source: Asheville Citizen-Times
8/9/2021
"Fink-Adams said many of her students are astounded when she details slavery, the Jim Crow era or the Trail of Tears, saying they've never heard about many of the things she's teaching."
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
8/5/2021
Leaked emails revealed a dean's willingness to ignore a potential donor's bigotry, and have led to recrimination instead of debate about the journalism school's direction.
Source: My San Antonio
8/9/2021
"Referencing the infamous flag from the Battle of Gonzales, this is a slogan that embodies both anti-Mexican and pro-slavery sentiments," argues professor emerita Ellen Clark.
Source: Atlanta
8/10/2021
A conversation with Andrew Aydin, John Lewis's former aide and collaborator on "Run," the hit graphic format memoir, discusses the legacy of the activist and congressman.
Source: Wall Street Journal
8/10/2021
by Daniel J. Samet
"Would-be history Ph.D.s owe it to themselves to look at the data."
Source: The Guardian
8/10/2021
Even as the state's educational authorities move to diminish coverage of Native displacement in school curricula, the Texas Historical Commission wants help from the state's tribes to identify historical heritage sites.
Source: WBUR
8/6/2021
A discussion of the legacy of John Tanton, the father of contemporary nativism and a principal exponent of the idea of an ethnic "replacement" of white Americans.
Source: Washington Post
8/10/2021
The US military concealed the details of a suicide bomber attack that targeted Vice President Dick Cheney at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan.
Source: New York Times
8/9/2021
Charles Loeb's reporting defied the official government line that radiation from the atomic bombs dropped on Japan was harmless, and resonated with Black readers who suspected a racist motive in dropping the new weapons on Japanese cities.
