Past Voices
Birmingham church bombing wasn’t an isolated act of terrorism – there were dozens of attacks on Black houses of worship during the Civil Rights Movement. By Jason Wollschleger / The Conversation
How Maryland is Reckoning With Forgotten Black Boys Who Died in State Care More Than a Century Ago. By Phenix S. Halley / The Root
Hubert Harrison’s Brand of Black Radicalism. By Peter Cole / The Nation
How Much Do You Really Know About Black August? The Legendary Prison Protests That Launched a Legacy of Resistance. By Phenix S. Halley / The Root
Bryan Stevenson on the “Enduring Evil of Slavery” and Trump’s Attempt to Rewrite History. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Black Folks Built Wealthy Neighborhoods Across America—Where Are They Now? By Asheea Smith / The Root
W.E.B. Du Bois Doc ‘Rebel With a Cause’ Isn’t History — It’s a Survival Guide for This Moment. By Nii-Quartelai Quartey / The Root
Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche: The Story Of The Only Black Passenger Aboard The Titanic. By Shannon Dawson / Newsone
It Wasn’t a Civil War. It Was the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. By Anthony Conwright / NYT
How an 1876 massacre of Black men in South Carolina turned racial terror into political power. By Jacob Ware / The Conversation
Miami Turns 130, And The Black History Behind The Magic City Runs Deeper Than Most Know. By Keytron Hill / Baller Alert
Nearly 100 years ago, Philadelphia’s Inez Patterson integrated pools and encouraged other Black girls to swim too. By Samantha Adams / The Conversation
From KKK halls to slave auction sites, communities rethink historic sites. By Russell Contreras and Delano Massey / Axios
Famous Civil Rights Group Push For Reparations in New York. By Phenix S. Halley / The Root
Banquo’s Ghost: The contradictions of the American Revolution. By Gerald Horne / The Nation
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
