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: Associated Press
7/15/2022
The state's top prosecutor said that despite the discovery of the warrant and the publication of Ms. Donham's memoir, the woman at the center of the Till lynching will not be prosecuted.
Source: The Atlantic
6/29/2022
Maligned in the aftermath of the Haitian revolution, Vodou has since been blamed for the alleged barbarism of Haitian people and the poverty of the nation. A new generation of practitioners wants to recover the tradition and clear its name.
Source: Tampa Bay Times
6/22/2022
"The governor did not name specific state universities or colleges with this problem. He was broad in his accusations about the higher education system and used vague anecdotes to justify the need for such a survey."
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
7/4/2022
The city awarded a commission for a permanent statue to Wesley Wofford, who designed a traveling memorial that had graced City Hall. Local artists, many Black, argued that the call wasn't fair and open.
Source: Texas Tribune
6/30/2022
A working group proposed the change for second grade social studies to the Texas State Board of Education under the shadow of legal jeopardy educators and school systems face under a new law that makes it unclear how the subject of slavery can be taught.
Source: Washington Post
6/28/2022
by Leah Litman, Melissa Murray and Kate Shaw
The Supreme Court has turned reproductive freedom over to state elected officials who are increasingly unaccountable to the public because of the Court's decisions eviscerating the Voting Rights Act.
Source: ProPublica
6/29/2022
The Idaho Freedom Foundation has lobbied state legislators to use the leverage of the higher education budget to attack everything from diversity-related courses to affirmative action to an indigenous land acknowledgement in Boise State's virtual commencement.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
6/29/2022
The 1955 document demonstrates that the authorities in Leflore County believed that Donham, for whose honor the lynching was allegedly carried out, was present for the teenager's abduction, torture, or murder.
Source: The New Republic
6/27/2022
How did the United States go from victory in the Cold War and an economic boom to the brink of collapse? A decade of political rhetoric denying any useful role for government was a factor.
Source: Texas Tribune
6/22/2022
In 1970, ethnic Mexican students at Uvalde High School staged a six-week school boycott to protest persistent segregation and pervasive disrespect from teachers and administrators.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
6/23/2022
"We always hear about important figures like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but I wanted to know about the heroes here in Yalobusha County.”
Source: Al Jazeera
6/25/2022
"The only reason that can be offered for keeping a man’s tooth for 61 years knowing that it was obtained through torture and murder is that the cruelty is the point. Colonisation was, after all, a projection of power through cruelty, rationalised by pseudo-intellectual arguments about racial superiority and difference."
Source: Jacobin
6/27/2022
by Chris Brooks
Do the successes of organizers at Amazon and Starbucks mean the age of slow, methodical and gradual organizing is over? Can workers use a union vote itself as an organizing tool to move quickly and defeat union-busting?
Source: The New Yorker
6/24/2022
Researchers suggest that the recently overturned New York state law did make residents significantly safer – from gun suicides – when it was passed more than a century ago.
Source: London Review of Books
6/9/2022
The famous and would-be famous have faced the dilemma of telling the world about themselves by listing the records (and luxury items) they'd want with them on a desert island; post-1951 episodes are now available as podcasts.
Source: ProPublica
6/16/2022
Cecelia Lewis was hired as a Georgia school district's first Diversity, Equity and Inclusion administrator. A national organization helped local parents get her fired.
Source: Scalawag
6/14/2022
Glenn Youngkin's attack on "divisive" history lessons clearly put the wishes of conservative whites at the center of the debate about curriculum. Now, a planned change to increase Black history in Virginia schools is on hold and Black students and families ask why their concerns are unheard.
Source: Politico
6/14/2022
The court could decide that Congress must explicitly define the rules of regulations it passes, which could make things like environmental protection law burdensome or impossible to enforce and effectively cripple federal regulations.
Source: Washington Post
6/9/2022
Hollywood's original plan for the film based on Woodward and Bernstein's book was light on substance and heavy on macho hijinks. How would Watergate be remembered if the script weren't changed?
Source: Washington Post
6/8/2022
Kernaghan waged war against the dark side of free trade: the ruthless exploitation of workers in overseas factories.
