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: New York Times
7/9/2021
“I’m really happy it’s a boring morning, and boring means that no bad things happened,” says UVA historian John Edwin Mason.
Source: New York Times
7/4/2021
"For almost three years now, with the fervor of the newly converted, Ms. Marshall has been on a quest that from the outside may seem quixotic and even naïve. She is diving into her family’s past and trying to chip away at racism in the Deep South, where every white family with roots here benefited from slavery and almost every Black family had enslaved ancestors."
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
7/7/2021
The bill, which died in the Senate, appeared to be motivated by the desire to equate the plight of conservative Louisianans, allegedly beseiged by "critical race theory," with that of European Jews during the ascendancy of Nazism.
Source: The Atlantic
7/8/2021
"Some Democrats are starting to suspect that the story is simpler: They’ve been chumps. They have clung to norms Republicans long ago abandoned. They have championed moderates in order to appeal to their enemies, only to watch those moderates twist in the wind."
Source: The Atlantic
7/8/2021
Sporting teams are one of the few officially English, as opposed to British, institutions. The national team's multiracial composition and embrace of social and political causes may be advancing a more inclusive form of Englishness.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
7/8/2021
“'We landed in water up to our necks,' Mr. Parham said, recalling a shorter man in his unit who had to be carried onto the beach because the water was over his head and he couldn’t swim."
Source: The Week
7/2/2021
Chris Tomlinson tweeted Thursday night that he presumes the event was canceled because "we don't regurgitate the propaganda that [Governor Greg] Abbott's Texas 1836 Project wants to promote."
Source: NPR
7/5/2021
Botticelli's portrait of Simonetta Vespucci had a wild ride through World War II, including being stored in a Nazi salt mine.
Source: New York Magazine
6/25/2021
The Lesbian Avengers organized and demonstrated in the 1990s to fight homophobia and sexism within the movement for queer liberation.
Source: NAACP Legal Defense Fund
7/6/2021
“I cannot imagine working at and advancing a school named for a man who lobbied against me, who used his wealth to influence the hires and ideology of the journalism school, who ignored my 20 years of journalism experience, all of my credentials, all of my work, because he believed that a project that centered Black Americans equaled the denigration of white Americans."
Source: BBC
7/5/2021
A new retrospective examines the artistic production of women at the intersections of new photographic technology and rising currents of racism and antisemitism in early 20th-century Europe.
Source: Smithsonian
6/23/2021
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Board recently elected Enrique Segura, chairman of the board of ENSE Group LLC, and Barbara Franklin, former U.S. secretary of commerce and business executive, to lead its 22-member advisory board.
Source: Washington Post
6/26/2021
Forensic analysis indicates that human remains discovered in a mass grave included a Black man who had been shot multiple times, as efforts to document the crimes continue.
Source: New York Times
7/1/2021
by Yi-Zheng Lian
Unlike their Soviet predecessors, the Chinese Communist Party has figured out how to maintain a lasting hold on power. Western critics hoping for its demise will be disappointed.
Source: Mother Jones
6/30/2021
It's uncertain that the Board of Trustees' decision to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones will lead her to join the University of North Carolina, and unlikely that the decision will erase the damage done by conservative interference in university governance.
Source: Election Law Blog
7/1/2021
by Rick Hasen
"The conservative Supreme Court has taken away all the major available tools for going after voting restrictions. This at a time when some Republican states are passing new restrictive voting law."
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
6/28/2021
"As some campus Republicans move toward the far right, what was previously an assault on higher education from groups based largely outside academe has become an inside job."
Source: New York Times
6/30/2021
The vote was 9-4, after a number of protesters were removed from the room. It is not now known if Hannah-Jones will now accept the appointment at UNC.
Source: CSPAN
6/30/2021
Read the results of the annual CSPAN Historian poll of presidential leadership. Sure to have something to please/anger everyone!
Source: New York Times
6/29/2021
New Jersey's liquor commission has released documents that show how it applied liquor laws to close gay bars, showing how marginalized groups can be singled out through bureaucratic means.
