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
4/26/2023
Mrs. Meggett cooked for decades for her family and church, and as a domestic worker for white families in South Carolina. Her book represents the work of many women who preserved food traditions passed from Africa through slavery and Jim Crow.
Source: The Guardian
4/27/2023
Researcher Desirée Baptiste discovered documents of the sale of 200 Africans in Virginia to the family of the late Queen Mother.
Source: Forbes
4/26/2023
by Jamie Merisotis
The push to restrict teaching "divisive concepts" in college classrooms is an authoritarian intrusion on the principles of academic freedom that have benefited America's students, economy, and democracy.
Source: Wall Street Journal
4/26/2023
While the College Board acknowleged a "breakdown" of the process by which edits were to be vetted by the scholars developing the curriculum, but denied being in conversation with Florida officials about the edits.
Source: Defector
4/26/2023
The Bureau's file on the late NBA star demonstrates their suspicion of the civil rights movement and disdain for politically engaged Black athletes. It also contains a memo alleging Russell placed a significant wager against the Celtics as player-coach, although many known facts and lack of follow-up make that allegation doubtful.
Source: Texas Tribune
4/20/2023
"Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said in a statement that both bills are wins for religious freedom in Texas."
Source: New York Times
4/20/2023
While famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers in 1971, the researcher and activist has revealed that he had another stash of secret papers—about American nuclear war planning—that he felt a duty to publicize. He never did release them, but is committed in his last days to work against nuclear war.
Source: The New Republic
4/21/2023
by Simon Lazarus
A Washington legal veteran argues that the judicial branch has always been political. The liberal ideal of a branch separate from partisan concerns is a historical oddity that the conservative legal movement has rejected in substance; legal liberals must do the same.
Source: NextCity
4/20/2023
While workers have long expressed a preference for a shorter work week, the labor market issues of the COVID pandemic have recalibrated the balance of power between workers and management in ways that have made the idea more appealing to policymakers.
Source: New York Times
4/21/2023
by Christina Paxson
"It is ludicrous to claim that state-sponsored censorship — which carries the full force of the government and can even entail criminal penalties — is justified by student misconduct or peer pressure."
Source: New York Times
Bert Ellis has been appointed to the University of Virginia's governing board by Governor Glenn Youngkin, having worked as the leader of a conservative alumni group demanding and end to diversity programs he sees as conflicting with the university's heritage.
Source: New York Times
4/22/2023
“It is a whole new level of fear,” said Kathleen Daniels, the president of the Florida Association for Media in Education, a professional organization for school librarians and media educators. “There are books that are not being selected because they have been challenged.”
Source: The Guardian
4/24/2023
Signatories include Israel’s largest human rights group, B’Tselem, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Israeli and Palestinian civil society groups, who claim that provisions of the definition equates criticism of Israeli policy toward Palestinians with antisemitism.
Source: YouTube
4/25/2023
After the passing of entertainer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, watch a discussion on civil rights recorded immediately after the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Source: Washington Post
4/24/2023
The third president's house at Poplar Forest was restored based in part on archival correspondence between Jefferson and James Hemings detailing the finish carpentry to be completed.
Source: The New Republic
4/24/2023
Despite her service in the Obama administration, many migrant advocates saw Rice's policies on detention and family separation as different from Stephen Miller's in tone more than in substance.
Source: The Atlantic
4/24/2023
Like Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson's success hinged on smuggling far-right conspiratorial views into the mainstream through incredulity and absurdity to encourage viewers to accept an alternate, grievance-driven reality.
Source: The Guardian
4/25/2023
With a prominent record of advocating for immigrant workers, Su faces indifference or outright hostility from moderate Democrats and Republicans as her nomination to succeed Marty Walsh at the Department of Labor advances.
Source: MinnPost
4/25/2023
Many institutions have been able to avoid repatriating artifacts because of the stringency of requirements that individual tribes document an affiliation with the objects in question, as well as a lack of transparency about holdings.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
4/17/2023
Although unions representing graduate workers, lecturers, and full-time faculty must approve them, a framework for agreement has been reached that would deliver significant gains in wages and other demands.
