Past Voices
Five Words That Changed America. By Janelle Bouie / NYT
America 250: How Black Soldiers and Spies Shaped The American Revolution. By Phenix S. Halley / The Root
How a slavery exhibit in the Confederate capital celebrates American history. By Gregory S. Schneider / Wash Post
The History at the Smithsonian That the White House Finds Unpatriotic. By Jennifer Schuessler / NYT
‘A counter-narrative of history’: Schomburg Center’s 100 years of celebrating Black culture. By Melissa Hellmann / The Guardian
Over 70 Years After Being Falsely Accused, The Groveland Four Families Finally Get Justice. By Phenix S Halley / The Root
‘I wish he had done more to free enslaved people’: Thomas Jefferson’s descendant on his family’s complex legacy. By David Smith / The Guardian
The Intimate Legacies of a White-Supremacist Coup. By Lauren Collins / The New Yorker
The Dangerous Kindness of Erasing Slavery. By Wayne Ince / Level
Lessons From the People’s Historian, Howard Zinn. By Dave Zirin / The Nation
What is Día de los Negros? The Juneteenth celebration that Black Seminole descendants have kept alive in Mexico for over 100 years. By Odafe Oghen / The Grio
The Black soldiers who changed the meaning of the Civil War. By Jake Lundberg / The Atlantic
Juneteenth reminds us of Black Americans’ long struggle for education following end of slavery. By Rodney Coates / The Conversation
The contradictions of the American Revolution. By Gerld Horne / The Nation
The Entwined History of Capitalism and Race in the Americas and Beyond. By Bill Fletcher Jr. / The Nation
One of America’s Last Black Homesteads Is Fighting to Preserve Its Full Story. by Aallyah Wright / Capital B
Tulsa at a Crossroads. By Kristal Brent Zook / The Nation
The Betrayal of Black Patriots. By Clint Smith / The Atlantic
National Civil Rights Museum unveils new institute in honor of late civil rights leader. By lydian Coombs / Action News 5
To Understand the American Revolution, I Went to Barbados. By Russell Shorto / NYT
How slavery built Connecticut and still shapes the state more than 250 years later. By Tyler Fedor / CT Insider
Memorial Day started with freed Blacks decorating soldiers’ graves in 1865. By Erick Johnson / The Chicago Crusader
The South: Stuck in the Sunken Place Ever Since the Civil War. By William Spivey / Level
A Black community fled a Virginia island. Reclaiming their history opened old wounds. By Gregory S. Schneider / Wash Post
Top Civil Rights Activist and Lawyer For MLK Jr., Clarence B. Jones, Dies At 95. By Caroline Wilburn / HuffPost
A house divided and indecent. By Kelly Brown Douglas / Christian Century
