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
1/3/2021
"I am trying not to give up. But what is getting me down is that I am losing a year. And this bothers me terribly. I’m 87 years old, and I lost almost a full year."
Source: Huffington Post
1/3/2021
“This is the ultimate smoking gun tape,” Bernstein said. “It is the tape with the evidence of what this president is willing to do to undermine the electoral system and illegally, improperly and immorally try to instigate a coup.”
Source: NPR
1/3/2021
Host Michel Martin speaks with Aaron Carapella of Tribal Nations Maps about children's books that address the history and experiences of Native Americans.
Source: USA Today
1/4/2021
Takeo Spikes, a native of Washington County, Georgia, retired from the NFL to earn and MBA and serves on the board of the New Georgia Project. He says that Black Georgians are realizing their power at the polls after decades of vote suppression and political discouragement.
Source: The Bulwark
1/4/2021
by Stuart Stevens
Former Mississippi Governor William Winter should be remembered for facing down extremists and advancing a moderate vision of change in Mississippi that centered on education. He died at 97 on December 18.
Source: The Atlantic
12/29/2020
In the 1990s, "The Simpsons" drew humor by putting bizarre dysfunction in the context of middle class suburban banality. Today it's the idea of homeownership paid for by a stable single income that seems outlandish.
Source: Boston Herald
1/1/2021
Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg suggests that Republican protests over the Electoral College vote certification are ridiculous and will be remembered as desperate and un-American.
Source: National Post
1/2/2021
The prospect of an end to World War II and the defeat of fascism scuttled 1945's chances in the competition for Worst Year Ever.
Source: Washington Post
1/2/2021
A young Californian has traveled across the world after founding a nonprofit agency to collect and preserve the stories of surviving World War II veterans.
Source: WBUR
1/4/2021
Political scientists examine the establishment of Georgia's runoff election procedures as part of historical efforts to limit the power of Black voters in the state.
Source: Washington Post
1/3/2020
"In the mid-1950s, as the lone official in Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold’s inner circle with military experience, Mr. Urquhart helped invent the practice of U.N. peacekeeping through the establishment of the U.N. Emergency Force."
Source: The New Republic
12/22/2020
Although they tout the advantages of learning technology, major publishers exploit copyright law and licensing agreements to force school districts to pay $27 per student per year for temporary access to digital copies of books like "The Diary of Anne Frank."
Source: The Art Newspaper
12/17/2020
The bill under consideration would compel France to return artifacts plundered from Benin and Senegal in the 1890s.
Source: Washington Post
12/21/2020
A racist incident during freshman "Hell Week" highlights the problems with racism, Confederate veneration, and unequally applied discipline at the Virginia Military Institute.
Source: Governor Ralph S. Northam
12/21/2020
“Confederate images do not represent who we are in Virginia, that’s why we voted unanimously to remove this statue,” said Senator Louise Lucas.
Source: Washington Post
12/21/2020
Virginia will no longer be represented in the US Capitol's Statuary Hall by the military leader of the Confederacy.
Source: Washington Post
12/20/2020
COVID forced a fast shift to video chat to record interviews with Holocaust survivors for the US Holocaust Museum's oral history project.
Source: CNN
12/19/2020
The now-classic movie was unsuccessful in its own time, perhaps because its expression of the uncertainty and fatigue of a nation emerging from a global war was not an upbeat or enjoyable theme.
Source: Kansas City Star
12/20/2020
The Kansas City Star begins a series reckoning with its failures to cover local protests for civil rights.
Source: New York Times
12/19/2020
Jean Graetz, one of the few white supporters of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, passed away at age 90.
