Endangered Plants, Lizard Sex, and Voter Suppression
Well-researched stories from CNN, the New York Times, and other publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Invented Math, Trustworthy Vaccines, and New Sugar
Well-researched stories from Smithsonian, FiveThirtyEight, and more great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Breathing Machines, New Fires, and Life on Venus
Well-researched stories from Aeon, Yale 360, and more great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Fungi, Red Skies, and Simplistic Thinking
Well-researched stories from Catapult, Slate, and more great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Freshwater Fish of Virginia
Roanoke College's Ichthyological Collection of over 800 freshwater fish documents the biodiversity we're losing at an alarming rate.
Wildfires and Climate Change
Scholarly research offers insight into the ways climate change and other factors are contributing to the wildfire crisis.
Punctuation, Vikings, and COVID’s Long Shadow
Well-researched stories from Aeon, Slate, and more great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Bad Chairs, Happy Memories, and Vigilante-Friendly Cops
Well-researched stories from The Guardian, Forge, and more great publications that that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Fake Mystery, Real Boredom, and Black Infants’ Lives
Well-researched stories from Vice, The New Yorker, and more great publications that that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Fake News: A Media Literacy Reading List
Compiled by graduate students in a 2016 course on “Activism and Digital Culture,” at University of Southern California.
Lying Cars, Workplace Racism, and Astrological Science
Well-researched stories from Mel Magazine, The Cut, and more great publications that that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Sprawl, Body Odor, and Disaster in Beirut
Well-researched stories from NPR, The Guardian, and more great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Clean Skin, Ancient Microbes, and Mom Shame
Well-researched stories from The New Yorker, Wired, and more great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Kimberlé Crenshaw’s Intersectional Feminism
Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw broke new ground by showing how women of color were left out of feminist and anti-racist discourse.
T. rex Physics, Lost Vegetables, and Coming Dystopias
Well-researched stories from Wired, Atlas Obscura, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Hot Dogs, Mourning, and Native Oklahoma
Well-researched stories from CNN, Maclean's, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Helpful Rats, Terrifying Chickens, and Risky Thinking
Well-researched stories from NPR, The Walrus, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Vaccine Tests, Confederate Names, and Real Pain
Well-researched stories from Wired, The Washington Post, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Shirley Chisholm: Sisterhood Is Complicated
A 1974 interview on feminism and politics with the first Black major-party candidate for president.
Dark Matter, Dolphin Education, and Doomscrolling
Well-researched stories from Aeon, Science Magazine, and other publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Media Literacy & Fake News: A Syllabus
Ten lessons from the past and steps we can take now to educate ourselves and our students about how to be a thoughtful consumer of information.
Five Decades of Black Activism in St. Louis
Elizabeth Hinton, Percy Green II, Robin D. G. Kelley, Tef Poe, George Lipsitz, and Jamala Rogers trace the history from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter.
Toilet Plumes, Black Commons, and Romanian Orphans
Well-researched stories from The Cut, The Atlantic, and other publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
15 Black Women Who Should Be (More) Famous
Honoring the scientists, poets, activists, doctors, and librarians--those we know and those we don't.
Juneteenth and the Emancipation Proclamation
The emancipation of enslaved people in the U.S. took place over a protracted period. The articles in this curated list dig into the complicated history.