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: Religion News Service
2/10/2023
The image of the Virgin Mary is both a protector of small businesses and a symbol of ethnic pride across Los Angeles; photographer Oscar Rodriguez Zapata has been documenting her appearances for a decade.
Source: Washington Post
2/15/2023
The former South Carolina governor, now once again a presidential candidate, has claimed credit for taking the Confederate flag off of the state house. A timeline shows she was often more conciliatory to the powerful pro-Confederate constituency in the state.
Source: Jacobin
2/15/2023
by Nora De La Cour
Decades of stressing metrics, measurement and job-readiness has created a vacuum where a robust public discussion of the role of public schools in nurturing shared humanity should be. Conservatives are now eagerly filling this vacuum with privatization and "classical education" curricula.
Source: Boston Globe
2/9/2023
A Nashville Elks lodge building was the 1960s home of a music club where superstars of Black music—and the yet-to-be famous Jimi Hendrix—played during the segregation era. Like many such landmarks, decades of highway building broke up the surrounding community and made the building endangered today.
Source: Popular Information
2/16/2023
by Judd Legum
After its communications with Florida officials in 2022 were revealed, the College Board removed statements from its website that claimed the company did not have such communication before making changes to the curriculum of its African American studies course.
Source: The Atlantic
2/16/2023
by Ariel Dorfman
"In retrospect I wonder if perhaps I was so tired of tales of torture and disappearances, so full of death and grief, that I could not deal with one more affront. I preferred to shield the sacred figure of Neruda from the violence."
Source: Washington Monthly
2/15/2023
"New College outperforms other Florida public institutions of higher learning and most of the conservative colleges and universities that DeSantis’s trustees point to as models for how they want to remake the school."
Source: NBC
2/14/2023
The poet, a Communist and ally of democratically-elected President Salvador Allende, died shortly after the coup that installed General Augusto Pinochet as dictator. There had been longstanding suspicion of the official explanation of his death.
Source: Hawai'i Public Radio
2/13/2023
The indigenous Hawai'ian resistance to the efforts of Cook to control the islands remains a key moment both in the colonial history of the islands and for the native culture.
Source: Boston Globe
2/7/2023
America faces a choice between preserving the sites of its civil rights history within the evolving fabric of cities and towns, or erecting more plaques explaining what happened in the buildings that used to be there.
Source: African American Policy Forum
2/12/2023
The AAPF is launching an interactive project to monitor efforts to ban books, censor classes, and punish teachers, and to offer reader the opportunity to share their valued experiences with antiracist education.
Source: The Atlantic
2/12/2023
The novelist responds to the recent banning of "The Handmaid's Tale" by a Virginia county with assurances that forbidden knowledge has never been suppressible.
Source: Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/02/11/
Although there are dozens of dedicated landmarks to African American history today, the activism of the DeForrest brothers to push the National Park Service toward inclusion has been forgotten.
Source: NPR
2/13/2023
Insiders claim a growing pattern of political pressure from the office of Governor Jim Justice to use the threat of defunding to defang public radio coverage of state affairs.
Source: New York Times
3/14/2023
Students fear disruption of an academic community that many find supportive, inspiring, and open—and gravely misunderstood by the Governor and his allies.
Source: New York Times
2/14/2023
“In a situation where everyone is against you, including your own relatives, who think that you are a traitor and are ready to hang you from the nearest lamppost, I was extremely pleased to discover that there are people who don’t know you at all, who’ve never seen you, and they are ready to help,” said Oleg Zavyalov, 31.
Source: The New Yorker
2/7/2023
The complexity and difficulty of placing the relatively small archive of an underground arts paper with a repository that can preserve it highlights the challenges facing historic preservation.
Source: Miami Herald
2/13/2023
Such a move would have serious consequences for the College Board's revenue, but also potentially hurt Florida high school students by depriving them of rigorous courses. Florida currently pays students' AP testing fees and has the fifth highest per capita rate of students taking AP tests.
Source: The Atlantic
2/2/2023
by Diane Roberts
"I plan to carry on teaching the way I always have, resisting the state’s decrees. The point of education is to produce not just pliant cogs but thinking citizens with knowledge of the rich and expansive ways to be human. That is genuine freedom."
Source: The New Republic
2/13/2023
If the followers of Lyndon Larouche seem to be fading from the public square, perhaps it's because the sensibility of the movement has been so much absorbed by the mainstream.
