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
4/17/2021
by Alexis McGill Johnson
"Margaret Sanger harmed generations with her beliefs. In our second century, Planned Parenthood has a chance to heal those harms," says the organization's current leader.
Source: Washington Post
4/20/2021
“The world needed to see what I was seeing,” she said.
Source: The Hill
4/21/2021
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) introduced legislation on Wednesday to make college tuition free for many Americans, a policy that would be paid for by a tax on Wall Street.
Source: Tribune Magazine
4/21/2021
by Chardine Taylor-Stone
"On the anniversary of her death, we can look at how the story of Simone’s political life is told, and who is telling it; at what they choose to include, and what they do in fact ‘erase’."
Source: The Baffler
4/21/2021
Raoul Peck's documentary "Exterminate All The Brutes" considers not just the history of settler colonialism, but the epistemology of history in contexts where the powerful seek to shape knowledge.
Source: New York Times
4/19/2021
A Rwandan government commission has concluded that the government of France supported the leaders of genocide in Rwanda to sustain its own influence. This goes a step beyond a recent French government report that identified French involvement in virulent ethnic politics but not in genocide.
Source: Washington Post
4/20/2021
The decision is seen by many Howard students as a blow to the university's academic standing, but it also comes at a time when the significance of racism in classical studies is a hot academic debate.
Source: New York Times
4/15/2021
Council members said objections to the noose element of the logo, designed in the 1970s, had been made before.
Source: New York Times
4/19/2021
United Nations experts have stated that a recent British government report on racial issues recycles racist tropes and unjustifiably ignores evidence of racial bias and disparities.
Source: New York Times
4/20/2021
by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Reginald Dwayne Betts reviews the newly-published "The Man Who Lived Underground," which speaks as much to today as it does to the 1940s.
Source: New York Times
4/20/2021
"The murder trial of Derek Chauvin is at the center of a national reckoning on race and policing. But cycles of protests over systemic racism and policing are not new. We watched the trial with the families of Rodney King, Oscar Grant and Stephon Clark to see this moment in history through their eyes."
Source: NPR
4/20/2021
Legislation passed in 1929 sets a cap on the size of the US House of Representatives, making the decennial census a high-stakes battle for precious seats. Expanding the House would make it more democratic and avoid taking existing seats away.
Source: MSNBC
4/19/2021
Ted Cruz imagines that the partisan affiliation of Jim Crow segregationists is a "gotcha" against the Democratic Party today, which only makes sense if you ignore everything that's happened since 1964.
Source: Washington Post
"Years later, in an interview with the University of Minnesota Foundation, he begged off reflecting on his legacy. 'Well, you know, Minnesota doesn’t believe much in bragging. I did the best I could'."
Source: Washington Post
4/20/2021
State archaeologists discovered remains of a cabin that evidence suggests belonged to Ben Ross, and where the woman who would be known as Harriet Tubman lived for a period of time as a child.
Source: NIH Director's Blog
4/15/2021
Dr. Anthony Fauci's model of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been a prop in numerous informational sessions since the beginning of the pandemic. Now, the plastic germ will reside in the Smithsonian's collections.
Source: The Atlantic
4/19/2021
by Kimberly Wehle
"Presidential criminal immunity has no grounding in actual law. It’s not in the Constitution or any federal statute, regulation, or judicial decision. It is not law at all."
Source: The New Republic
4/15/2021
Writer Matt Ford argues that the proposed Judiciary Act will fail to address the political problems that the Democrats are reacting to. Is there a better approach?
Source: Wall Street Journal
4/15/2021
The House Judiciary Committee approved HB 40, sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, authorizing a commission to study the issue of reparations to African Americans.
Source: Data & Society
4/14/2021
In 1929, Congress adopted a formula for apportionment based on the Census. While made political disputes a matter of law, it also capped the size of the House, which has not kept up with population growth and contributed to the disproportionate influence of small states in the House and the Electoral College.
