Past Voices
How Black Women Continue to Shape American Democracy. By Irene Monroe / The Progressive Magazine
What James Madison can teach Americans about religious freedom today. By Covey D. B. Walker / The Conversation
The Fugitive Slave Who Wrote to the President. By Regina E. Mason / The Atlantic
Selma Was Not Just History, It Was a Warning. By Tre’ Murphy / The Root
‘Simply tell the truth’: Miami historian creates Black history textbook for kids. By Raisa Habersham / Miami Herald
Historians resist Trump’s effort to police the past. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
A film honors America’s first self-governed town founded by formerly enslaved people. By Adria R. Walker / The Guardian
Reparations advocates push for payments to Black Americans despite budget and legal challenges. By Joshua Q. Nelson / Fox News
Bernard LaFayette, Freedom Rider and Selma voting rights organizer, dies at 85. By Travis Loller / AP and PBS
Henrietta Lacks’ family reaches second settlement with pharmaceutical brand for ‘stolen’ cells. By Haniyah Philigene / The Grio
Trayvon Martin and Other Black Men, Women Unjustly Killed. By Phenix S. Halley / The Root
Proof That Jim Crow Era Was Not That Long Ago And Why This is Important to Know. By Shellie M. Scott / The Root
The Trump Administration Can’t Kill Black History Month. By Clint Smith / The Atlantic
The Republican Party Has a Nazi Problem. By Tom Nichols / The Atlantic
U.S. Imperialism Was Built In from the Beginning. By Norman Stockwell / The Progressive Magazine
America’s Most Overlooked Civil‑Rights Tragedy Marks its 58th Anniversary. By William Spivey / Level Man
Revisiting the story of Clementine Barnabet, a Black woman blamed for serial murders in the Jim Crow South. By Lauren Nicole Henley / The Conversation
Why Bryan Stevenson is fighting to protect Black history with ‘The Legacy Sites.’ By Natasha S. Alford / The Grio
Martha Washington’s enslaved maid Ona Judge made a daring escape to freedom – but the National Park Service has erased her story from Philadelphia exhibit. By Timothy Welbeck / The Conversation
We Have to Look Right in the Face of What We Have Become. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
How a Slave’s Son Fought for Black Rights in Reconstruction-Era Louisiana. By Carl Rollyson / New York Sun
Tearing Apart ‘The Old Thread-bare Lie.’ By Marvin Olasky / Christianity Today
Why James Forman Still Matters. By Eric Morrison-Smith / The Progressive Magazine
Byron Allen And Ava DuVernay Tackle MLK Assassination In New Film. By Robert Hill / Black Enterprise
What ICE Should Have Learned from the Fugitive Slave Act. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
America Keeps Trying to Clean Up George Washington’s History, But We Won’t Forget the Nine He Enslaved. By Wayne Washington / The Root
ASALH Marks Century of Black History Month Celebrations in 2026. By Walter Hudson / EduLedger
Celebrating Black Military Service Is Not “DEI Shit.” It’s Essential to America’s Defense. By Matthew Delmont / Mother Jones
What America Lost When It Lost Mother Fletcher. By Caleb Gayle / The Atlantic
We’ve Never Agreed About George Washington and Slavery. By John Garrison Marks / Time
