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
6/14/2021
Two observers of the Palestinian political scene argue that the leading factions of Hamas and Fatah are more motivated to maintain their own power than to support a growing, youth-led Palestinian movement for justice.
Source: New York Times
6/13/2021
by Charles M. Blow
Times columnist Charles Blow doesn't "even believe that most people have any real concept of what critical race theory is. It’s just a collection of words that hint, to them, at agitation and aggrievement."
Source: BBC
6/14/2021
"Japanese lecturer Hiroaki Takazawa at Tokyo's Nijon University found the declassified documents at the US National Archives in Washington DC."
Source: Washington Post
6/13/2021
Was the planned event unduly sympathetic to slave owners, or a reflection of the historical intertwining of the lives of Black and White southerners?
Source: NPR
6/12/2021
"We need to understand that Black identification with Zionism predates the formation of Israel as a modern state," says Robin D. G. Kelley, a historian at the University of California, Los Angeles who studies social movements.
Source: Washington Post
6/14/2021
Rand Paul's comments that Jim Crow laws were a product of democracy reveals the degree to which he and the Republican Party seek to justify their antidemocratic approach to election law.
Source: Washington Post
6/11/2021
by Deb Haaland
My great-grandfather was taken to Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. Its founder coined the phrase “kill the Indian, and save the man,” which genuinely reflects the influences that framed these policies at the time.
Source: ChalkBeat
6/9/2021
ChalkBeat presents an interactive aggregation of state laws passed to restrict the teaching of topics related to racism.
Source: GroundUp
June 8, 2021
by Ilan Baruch and Alon Liel
Two former Israeli ambassadors to South Africa this week declared their view that Israel's occupation of the West Bank, now 55 years on, is a form of apartheid.
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
6/8/2021
Chicago is engaging in a broad and unprecedented study of the city's monuments and the political and cultural implications of memorialization in public space. Will this help avoid the bitter controversies and protests that have erupted in other cities?
Source: Washington Post
6/6/2021
Longtime DC activist Howard Croft died from COVID complications in June 2020. His surviving relatives found a trove of papers and artifacts about civil rights struggles in the District and beyond, but feel the lack of his voice to explain what the pieces mean.
Source: Washington Post
6/6/2021
Captain Charles McVay took the fall for the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the last days of the second world war, finally taking his own life. An appeal by the Mochitsura Hashimoto, commander of the sub to US Senator John Warner cleared the way for a legislative exoneration.
Source: Jacobin
6/8/2021
Lewis Hine's photographs, including for WPA arts programs, "contributed to an aesthetic of worker empowerment through images of strife and solidarity."
Source: The Guardian
6/8/2021
Publishers have withdrawn materials needed for prep for the British exams in middle east history because of political complaints of bias both against Israel and the Palestinians.
Source: The Atlantic
6/7/2021
The linguist and cultural critic links Princeton's decision to drop the requirement that classics majors study ancient Greek or Latin to other changes in the field he argues are driven by trendy concern with racism instead of intellectual value.
Source: Baton Rouge Advocate
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/artic
Martha White's defiance of customary segregation pushed the city's white bus drivers to strike demanding the repeal of a local desegregation ordinance. The ensuing boycott was a model for the Montgomery campaign two years later.
Source: Hawaii Public Radio
6/7/2021
“A picture is worth a thousand words,” said Lynn Heirakuji, president of the Nisei Veterans Legacy and co-chair of the Stamp Our Story Hawaii Organizing Committee.
Source: Nashville Scene
6/7/2021
The Sons of Confederate Veterans' effort to move Nathan Bedford Forrest's remains from Memphis to its National Confederate Museum only makes sense if the SCV intends to valorize Confederates who were active in the KKK after the Civil War.
Source: Washington Post
6/7/2021
Joy Banner, descended from people enslaved at the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana, is pursuing reparations in the form of input into the use of land owned by the Whitney, saying “there are as many different forms of reparations as you can think of, because healing looks different in every community.”
Source: Inside Higher Ed
6/7/2021
Despite a protest movement by students and other stakeholders, Washington and Lee University's institutional changes in response to its legacy of slavery and ties to the Confederacy will not include rejecting Robert E. Lee's name.
