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: The Atlantic
10/31/2021
Free speech debates miss a key point: some participants don't want to protect the right to speak as much as the right of the state to use its power to end political arguments. The role of Black Floridians as citizens was once such an argument, and disenfranchisement ended it.
Source: Council on Foreign Relations
10/3/2021
Over the two centuries since Colombia’s independence, the relationship between Washington and Bogota has evolved into a close economic and security partnership. But it has at times been strained by U.S. intervention, Cold War geopolitics, and the war on drugs.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
11/2/2021
The University's prior explanation, that faculty are free to serve as witnesses to litigation against the state on a pro-bono basis on their own time, appears to be contradicted by efforts to stop a pediatrics professor from testifying pro bono in favor of school mask mandates.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
10/28/2021
COVID-19 has highlighted the historical processes of agricultural labor, land ownership, and economic underdevelopment that have made Black residents of Noxubee County in eastern Mississippi vulnerable to both illness and economic from the pandemic.
Source: Washington Post
10/26/2021
At least 90,000 artifacts from sub-Saharan Africa are held by institutions in France, according to a 2018 report commissioned by the French government.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
11/1/2021
The University of Florida had told three faculty members that their work as consultants for the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the state's restrictive new voting laws are "adverse to the university's interests"; will this affect the school's accreditation as a violation of the institution's independence?
Source: The New Yorker
11/1/2021
by Benjamin Anastas
The playwright and classicist Claude Fredericks kept 65,000 pages of a journal, likely the longest record of one American life ever kept. Is it valuable as a documentary record, or as a demonstration of the self-mythologizing work of the diarist?
Source: New York Times
11/2/2021
Since March, a new law has been used at least 15 times to prosecute Chinese who "slander" heroes of the Communist Party's official historical narrative. Experts attribute the crackdown to the fact that slowed economic growth no longer guarantees the party's widespread legitimacy.
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
10/26/2021
Richmond-based opinion columnist Michael Williams connects the battles to preserve segregation to today's controversies over how racism is taught in Virginia schools, and argues politicians have cynically exploited both.
Source: Deadline
10/26/2021
Ken Burns, who collaborated with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on the selection, called "Gradually, Then Suddenly" a "complex, nuanced, layered" examination of the city's financial crisis and the political divide between Detroit and the state of Michigan.
Source: Texas Tribune
10/26/2021
Republican Matt Krause, who is running for state Attorney General, intends to ask school districts about whether they carry copies of about 850 books dealing with racism and sexuality.
Source: CBS News
10/19/2021
"The lawsuit says the law is unconstitutional as it goes against the First and 14th Amendments and asks the court for a permanent preliminary injunction to prevent the law from being enforced in schools and universities."
Source: CNN
10/18/2021
More than a century ago, long before the Civil War, St. Malo was the first permanent Filipino settlement in the United States. Preserving the settlement's history is now a race against time.
Source: The New Republic
10/18/2021
by Timothy Noah
Perhaps Steve Bannon is doing a favor for the cause of government accountability by showing the outlandishness of the entire doctrine, which has managed to pass from Dwight Eisenhower's strategy for stonewalling Joseph McCarthy to a hallowed totem of the out-of-control presidency.
Source: New York Times
10/19/2021
Forensic anthropologists have largely stuck with techniques for assigning geographic ancestry to skeletal remains. Recently, the origins of those techniques in last century's scientific racism have prompted some in the discipline to call for stopping the practice.
Source: New York Times
10/18/2021
The sword is dated at 900 years old, and originated in the Third Crusade.
Source: Forward
10/14/2021
"After touring the museum’s seven stories, I discovered that Hollywood’s pioneers, who busted their tucheses building the industry it celebrates, ended up on the cutting room floor."
Source: New York Times
10/16/2021
Fabrice Riceputi, a historian of the Algerian War who has written about the killings, described the events of Oct. 17 as “a peak in a period of state terror that is inflicted on the colonized people.”
Source: New York Times
10/18/2021
"Annette Gordon-Reed, a Harvard Law School professor and a Jefferson expert, objected to the idea of taking down the Jefferson statue, but said that if it were to move to the New-York Historical Society, where she serves as a trustee, it would be a best-case scenario."
Source: NPR
10/14/2021
Florida legislators unanimously approved Bethune to replace Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith in the Capitol statuary in 2018.
