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: Reason
10/3/2022
Callie House led an organization that sought pensions as a form of reparation and relief for formerly enslaved people. In 1917 unfriendly federal officials prosecuted her for mail fraud for circulating her organization's materials.
Source: New York Times
10/4/2022
The singer expressed the endurance of hardship but also performed subversive and humorous takes on the changing mores reaching rural America in the 1960s and 1970s.
Source: Washington Post
10/4/2022
The NFL teams' agreement to interview minority candidates for coaching jobs always had a fault: nothing happened to teams who abused the process and interviewed candidates with no intention of hiring them.
Source: The Atlantic
10/2/2022
by Diane Roberts
Growth may make the Sunshine State unlivable.
Source: The Atlantic
10/3/2022
by J. Michael Luttig
"Such a doctrine would be antithetical to the Framers’ intent, and to the text, fundamental design, and architecture of the Constitution."
Source: BBC
10/2/2022
In the late 1960s and 1970s, up to half of reproductive-aged women in Greenland were implanted with IUDs, often without informed consent.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
10/2/2022
by Will Bunch
"The GOP is partying like it’s 1988 — the year that scary pictures of a felon they called Willie Horton and grainy images of Black crime saved a party equally devoid of actual policies," says columnist Will Bunch.
Source: The New Yorker
10/3/2022
Byron Schroeder ran into difficulty tracking down the story of a commerical artifact digging operation on private land. Past participants were reticent because, in addition to artifacts, some had removed human remains. The story highlights the divides between academic and amateur archaeologists and the ethics of digs.
Source: KTLA
10/2/2022
The Academy had earlier this year issued an apology to Littlefeather for the abuses she endured after protesting the depiction of Native Americans in films during the Oscars ceremony.
Source: Above the Law
10/3/2022
A legal observer suggests the influential judge's reputation might have benefitted from judicial term limits, as his penchant for judicial restraint took a hard turn toward activism in decisions on gun control and public pronouncements about confederate monuments.
Source: Kansas Reflector
9/25/2022
by Patricia E. Weems Gaston
Descendants of its residents visit Nicodemus, Kansas yearly to take part in a homecoming festival for the first Black-founded town west of the Mississippi. This July's reunion was the 144th.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/26/2022
The state of Florida contends that, when operating within approved curricula, in-class instruction becomes the state's speech, obviating the First Amendment. It's unclear how much traction this argument will get in court.
Source: NPR
9/27/2022
In Pittsburgh's Hill District in the 1960s, a group of Black men from a neighborhood where many were considered unemployable revolutionized emergency medical response. But the story of Freedom House has been suppressed.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/26/2022
The university's general counsel warned that the vagueness of the state's abortion restrictions means faculty are at risk of prosecution for how they discuss the issue in their classrooms.
Source: The Baffler
9/22/2022
A protest movement against inequality and oligarchy convinced almost 80 percent of Chileans to vote for a constitutional convention, and led to the election of a young leftist president. Why did more than 60 percent of voters then reject the new charter?
Source: Washington Post
9/26/2022
by Joseph Cirincione
The first use of nuclear weapons is a part of both Russian and American military strategy; the task for the world is to assess the most likely scenario and plan to respond effectively.
Source: Noema
9/22/2022
The struggles of the New York transit system to preserve the useful life of its train cars, and to prevent problems before they occur, reflects deep and troubling changes in society's relationship to infrastructure and labor power.
Source: The Guardian
The pressure to depict the heroic exploits of Australian forces in service of the Crown has chilled discussion of the nation's internal military history and how it should be publicly acknowledged. Changing leadership of the body responsible for commemoration is an opportunity to take a new course.
Source: Nature
9/28/2022
The leading cross-disciplinary science publication acknowledges that it has given a platform to the scientifically discredited writings of eugenicists and has an ongoing obligation to ensure that it does not offer further support for oppression justified by the authority of science.
Source: The Atlantic
9/24/2022
For a Canadian-raised child of Hungarian Jewish refugees, an email sparked a research project that unlocked mysteries about his family.
