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
2/10/2023
Pope and co-author Julian Bond punctured Atlanta's self-satisfied mythology as "the city too busy to hate" by cataloguing the institutional and cultural attacks on Black residents' dignity, demanding change.
Source: The Atlantic
2/10/2023
Italy's original Fascists embraced Dante as a marker of national chauvinism, and a prophet of authoritarianism; today's far right has renewed their enthusiasm for the poet.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
2/13/2023
The Board stated that it regretted failing to make its disagreements with Florida's assessment of the course as lacking in educational value, and that it had betrayed the trust of scholars who had worked with it to develop the course.
Source: The Atlantic
2/8/2023
Journalist Wesley Lowery turns to a rereading of James Baldwin and Derrick Bell to consider how the racial identity of the officers who beat Tyre Nichols to death fits into the history of American racism.
Source: New York Times
2/5/2023
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is working against time and redevelopment to prevent the loss of key sites of African American history across the nation. So far the project has helped protect a museum of the Buffalo Soldiers, Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, and Louis Armstrong's house in Queens, among other sites.
Source: Wall Street Journal
2/2/2023
Long before Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson made the term part of his ring persona, the term had worked its way from Sicilian immigrants to the subcultures of criminals, carnies and con artists and the shop-talk of wrestlers.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
2/6/2023
One woman's passion for collecting has been an invaluable resource for studies of the evolution of slang, profanity and vulgarisms; after her recent death, an epic quest to preserve the collection ensued.
Source: New York Times
2/8/2023
Like the rest of Japanese society, the Yakuza are aging, making a transition out of criminal careers a challenge. Forming a softball team—and changing the uniform colors from black to pink and gray—helped some.
Source: New York Times
2/9/2023
The revelation, first made by the right-wing Daily Caller but confirmed by the Florida Department of Education, calls into question the College Board's claims that it was not influenced by pressure from Florida officials. Scholars question the College Board's commitment to academic integrity.
Source: New York Times
2/8/2023
57 coded letters held by the French national library were mistakenly identified as Italian. A team of codebreakers found they were the prison correspondence of the ill-fated cousin of Queen Elizabeth I.
Source: The New Republic
2/8/2023
A third of the artworks in the Capitol depict slaveholders. Whether they're replaced with other works, possibly those celebrating liberators, is largely up to the new House Speaker.
Source: Washington Post
2/3/2023
Governors J.B. Pritzker and Gretchen Whitmer are hardly beacons of "wokeness" – but they may be key advocates of a political message to parents and teachers that their party will protect the freedom to learn.
Source: Foreign Affairs
2/7/2023
by Daniel Byman
The second intifada, between 2000 and 2005, ended not with negotiated peace but with an overwhelming application of force by Israel on Gaza and the West Bank. As Israeli politics tilts rightward and abandons the idea of a negotiated settlement, it is unclear what will prevent a new escalation of violence.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
2/6/2023
by Len Gutkin
Although the future Supreme Court Justice did lay out a plan to contest ideological control over universities, Chamber of Commerce attorney Lewis Powell was concerned above all with the power of big business to dominate society without opposition or criticism.
Source: Austin American-Statesman
1/6/2023
University of Texas professor Elizabeth Keating was shocked by how few of her students could discuss their own family's history, and created a guide to investigating.
Source: The Nation
2/6/2023
by John Nichols
"When the House denounced “the horrors of socialism,” those legislators made the case that socialism was—and is—a part of what makes Milwaukee great."
Source: The New Republic
2/6/2023
by Scott W. Stern
Journalist Malcolm Harris attempts to excavate the history of how a worldview shaped by the tech industry—most notably its rampant individualism and subordination of the self to surveillance, metrics and monitoring—conquered the world, while also keeping the flames of unregulated capitalism and eugenics burning.
Source: The Atlantic
2/2/2023
by Kevin Dettmar
While the decade's pop scene was undeniably eclectic, there's an argument to be made that the New York group was at the center of the most lasting trends of the 1970s.
Source: The Guardian
1/31/2023
The exhibition is an acknowledgment of the church's investments in the transatlantic slave trade, but critics argue that the church remains obligated to pay reparations.
Source: Independent
2/1/2023
"We have been told that this is a temporary move as the district works toward compliance with this law, but with only one person to vet thousands of books, it doesn’t feel very temporary."
