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: Smithsonian
6/1/2022
An unpublished memoir of her late life, recently released to the Smithsonian, shows how Shirley Temple Black worked to thwart pervasive sexism in the diplomatic arena while advocating for a global environmental awareness.
Source: The New Yorker
5/30/2022
Anthony Davis's 1985 opera "X" was slow to catch on in the American repertory, a fact that would have been no surprise to its subject.
Source: NBC News
6/1/2022
"It finds that the damage to Black communities is extensive and that a variety of intentionally crafted policy, judicial decisions and racism by private actors has created a widespread exclusion of Black people that has not been sufficiently addressed at any level of government."
Source: The New Republic
6/1/2022
A series of Supreme Court decisions in recent decades have reinforced police officers' discretion about how and if to act, and made in nearly impossible for the public to hold the police accountable for those choices, even when lives are lost.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
6/2/2022
Experts debate whether polls showing students perceive stifled speech on controversial subjects are reflecting or driving reality, and if they are being used in a conservative attack on higher education.
Source: Substack
6/1/2022
by Jason Garcia
The Governor proposed a sweeping set of higher education oversight reforms that would have consolidated power over public campuses, including the hiring of professors, with boards appointed by the governor.
Source: Boston Globe
6/1/2022
"A leaked draft report by a Harvard committee says the university has the remains of at least 19 people who were likely enslaved and nearly 7,000 Native Americans, according to the Harvard Crimson."
Source: Washington Post
5/31/2022
"About 1999, in the Columbine shooting, the NRA set its political course: We’re in the culture war business."
Source: Places Journal
5/30/2022
Gordon Parks's photographs showed the humanity of the workers in the nation's massive war mobilization, notably at a Pittsburgh grease plant.
Source: Smithsonian
5/24/2022
An irony of the "Maus" controversy is that the government used the medium of comics to inform the public about the discovery of the Nazi death camps.
Source: NextCity
5/23/2022
Outgoing governor Ralph Northam removed the graffiti-covered pedestal of the former Robert E. Lee monument, which has become a site of community gathering and a public forum to express alternative visions of history. Cities should try to encourage such openness (if not spray-painting).
Source: CNN
5/24/2022
West Point historian Ty Seidule was vice-chair of the renaming commission, and sought community input for the proposal.
Source: TeenVogue
5/26/2022
Patrick Purdy killed 5 children, all from Southeast Asian refugee families, and injured 30 others in a schoolyard gun attack in 1989, an incident that should be a reminder of the horrific combination of racism and guns in America. Gun violence scholar Pat Blanchfield explains how we've collectively forgotten.
Source: Smithsonian
5/24/2022
Sculptor Sabin Howard's ambitious design for the memorial relied on the modern power of digital photography to capture motion and the old-school forming of clay to freeze it in time.
Source: The Racket
5/24/2022
by Jonathan M. Katz
What can be taken away from the battle erupting between journalists and historians over the Times's blockbuster news event on Haiti's post-independence forced ransom?
Source: Jacobin
5/24/2022
Moral panics are proving useful for a right-wing agenda of undermining public trust in public education; America's oligarchs are stoking them, argues a school social worker.
Source: Academe Blog
5/19/2022
by John K. Wilson
Boise State suspended multiple sections of a core course affecting nearly 1,300 students based on a lie told by a state legislator about the alleged mistreatment of a conservative student by fellow students and a professor; expect more of these attacks on higher education funding.
Source: The Bulwark
5/20/2022
by Cathy Young
No – while the Democrats have been publicly (and perhaps unjustifiably) confident that demographic change favors their electoral interests, the right is bringing a racist conspiracy theory from the fringes to the mainstream.
Source: Los Angeles Times
5/23/2022
by Kate Kelly
The ERA would anchor a constitutional right to gender equality that could support a legal defense of abortion rights, and has already met the technical requirements for ratification.
Source: The New Yorker
5/23/2022
Do the gifts of the super-wealthy cancel out the damage done by the unequal system that allows them to accumulate it?
