The Roundup Top Ten for May 8

HNN Sponsor       HNN Follows News For You Department of Justice Drops Charges Against Michael Flynn Follow the response to a bombshell development in Russiagate.  The Postal Service Crisis Trump's announcement of a Republican fundraiser as Postmaster General has raised the already dire stakes for the USPS. COVID Cuts are Coming to Colleges Historians respond to announced budget and program cuts and proposals for more to come during the COVID crisis. Historians Share Cute Animal Pictures for Trying Times TGIF   Today's COVID Headlines - Flushing Out the True Cause of the Global Toilet Paper Shortage amid Coronavirus Pandemic - A Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers and José Andrés Want to Empower FEMA to Meet America's Growing Hunger Crisis - White House Blocks C.D.C. Guidance Over Economic and Religious Concerns   Roundup Top 10 HNN Tip: You can read more about topics in which you're interested by clicking on the tags featured directly underneath the title of any article you click on. The Policy Mistakes from the 1990s that have Made Covid-19 Worse by Heather Ann Thompson Politicians should have learned that the walls they imagine separating those serving time from those outside are, in fact, completely porous. Meatpacking Work has Become Less Safe. Now it Threatens Our Meat Supply by Chris Deutsch The modern food system rests on a thin reed of worker abuse and poor sanitation that covid-19 has finally broken. Ida B. Wells Won the Pulitzer. Here's Why that Matters. by Sarah L. Silkey President Trump continues the long history of trying to delegitimize black women journalists. Ask Who Paid for America's Universities by Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee The Morrill Act created endowment funds from land that the U.S. Government took from Native Americans with little or no compensation. Addressing the problems of public universities must not exclude addressing the problems of Native communities. COVID-19 and the Color Line by Colin Gordon, Walter Johnson, Jason Q. Purnell, and Jamala Rogers The disproportionate toll COVID-19 has taken on black Americans is a product of conscious choices by actors at every level of government and private industries like banking, insurance and real estate.  Female Husbands by Jen Manion Far from being a recent or 21st-century phenomenon, people have chosen, courageously, to trans gender throughout history. Cities and States Need Aid – But Also Oversight by Daniel Wortel-London and Brent Cebul The history of New Deal-era federal aid to local governments suggests that cities need both funds and strict oversight; programs that worked through local business elites often created unsupportable demands on local finances.  Coronavirus Is Making The Case For Black Reparations Clearer Than Ever by William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen America has failed to seize previous chances to eliminate racial inequality and grant black Americans access to the same opportunities as whites. The Coronavirus Could Rewrite the Rules for Silicon Valley by Margaret O'Mara The blue-collar workers who power the digital economy — including fulfillment center workers and app-based couriers — are pushing for higher pay and better protection, just as Detroit autoworkers did 90 years ago. Preserving Postal Service and Mail Voting is Essential by Andrew W. Kahrl If you are shocked that Republicans would use this crisis to end the postal service as we know it, then you haven't been paying attention.     Breaking News and Historians in the News Stay Up to Date!  You can now receive a daily digest of news headlines posted on HNN by email. It's simple:  Go Here!  What follows is a streamlined list of stories.  To see the full list:  Go Here! They Survived the Holocaust. Now They're Confronting the Virus. The generation that endured Nazi death camps is especially vulnerable to the pandemic. What Was Saved Sarah Broom's memoir "The Yellow House" reconstructs not only her family's history in New Orleans but also that larger arc of the black experience in the United States. We Are Losing a Generation of Civil-Rights Memories America's response to the pandemic harkens back to ugly times in our country's history. But to recognize that, we need to know our elders' stories. We Can't Afford to Lose the Postal Service For the past forty years, Republicans have been seeking to starve, strangle, and sabotage the U.S. Postal Service, hoping to privatize one of the oldest and most important public goods in American history. The Legacy of Bobby Lee Verdugo, A Leader Of East LA Walkouts Verdugo, who became one of the founders of the Chicano student movement and spent much of his life mentoring youth, died Friday. He was 69. New York Fed Paper Finds Pandemic a Century Ago Fueled Nazi Rise As far-right political movements gain in the U.S. and abroad, a paper by an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York argues that the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 fueled the rise of Nazism in Germany. Irish Return an Old Favor, Helping Native Americans Battling the Virus More than 170 years ago, the Choctaw Nation sent $170 to starving Irish families during the potato famine. Now hundreds of Irish people are repaying that old kindness. Daniel Pipes Argues Annexing the West Bank Would Hurt Israel Daniel Pipes, prominent conservative American commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, gives six reasons to believe that taking over Palestinian territory would harm both U.S.-Israel relations and Israel's status as the Jewish state. UNC Historian Says NC Reopened Too Soon During 1918 Pandemic. Don't Let That History Repeat. UNC history professor James Leloudis has studied how the global 1918 influenza pandemic tore through North Carolina. The Politics of Representation: The Fight for the Smithsonian Women's History Museum Still, in 2020, there is no brick and mortar NWHM; it exists only virtually. U.S. Extremist Blames 'Compliant' Jews for Holocaust in Idaho Protest Ammon Bundy tells crowd during anti-lockdown demonstration that Jewish people thought 'putting their head down and trying to not be noticed was the better way' in WWII. UConn Historian: South Vietnam Archives Provide New Insights into War Historian Nu-Ahn Tran argues that internal documents show that the government of the Republic of Vietnam worked toward its own goals and agenda rather than simply following direction from Washington to fight Communists. The '1619 Project' is Filled with Slovenliness and Ideological Ax-Grinding Conservative columnist George Will contends that the 1619 Project undermines trust in journalism by taking on a political project. NPR podcast 'White Lies' named Pulitzer Prize finalist The NPR Podcast about the murder of Rev. James Reeb, the Unitarian minister and civil rights activist who traveled to Selma, Ala. to support the fight for black voting rights in the South, was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting.

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