Past Voices
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
When Free, Light-Skinned, Black Women Were Required to Wear Headgear to Identify Themselves as Non-White. By William Spivey / Level Man
Texas posthumously exonerates Tommy Lee Walker, executed 70 years prior for rape and murder of White woman. By Alexander Koch / Fox News
Mathematician Gladys West, whose models led to the invention of GPS, dies at 95. By Nhari Djan / The Grio
Claudette Colvin, unsung civil rights pioneer, dies at 86. By Harrison Smith / Wash Post
Martin Luther King Jr. was ahead of his time in pushing for universal basic income. By Tarah Williams and Andrew Bloeser / The Conversation
The New History of Fighting Slavery. What we learn by tracing rebellions from Africa to the Americas. By Laurent Dubois / The Atlantic
The Judge Who Sparked a Civil Rights Movement – Explore Black Charleston.
2026 Marks The 100th Anniversary Of Black History Month — A Brief History. By Doug Melville / Forbes
How Trump is Threatening to Erase the Legacies of World War II’s Black Soldiers. By Phenix S Halley / The Root
Albert Einstein’s Brilliant Politics. By Joshua Bennett / The Atlantic
Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Freedom for Christmas: the extraordinary journey of an enslaved woman to Britain. By Genevieve Johnson / The Conversation
Andrew Johnson’s 1868 Christmas pardon shows how forgiveness and politics collide. By CK Smith / Salon
Stop Calling Me ‘Blackie!’ How Colorism Nicknames Still Wreak Havoc on Beautiful Black Women. By Asheea Smith / The Root
Trump is whitewashing American history. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
The Mysterious Life and Afterlife of Private Fitz Lee. By Carol Rosenberg / NYT
Her 1951 walkout helped end school segregation. Now her statue is in the U.S. Capitol. By Rachel Treisman / NPR
“Honor Our History”: Trump Slammed for Ending Free National Park Entry on Juneteenth & MLK Day. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it. By Jeanne Theoharis / The Guardian
Where Are the Black Panther Party Leaders Today? By Asheea Smith / The Root
America stares down erasure of Black history and progress. By Delano Massey / Axios
What Rosa Parks can teach us about resistance today. By Jan-Werner Muller / The Guardian
Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown. By Jill Cowan / NYT
‘Becoming Thurgood’: How Marshall became ‘Mr. Civil Rights’ and a Supreme Court icon. By Ken Makin / CSMonitor
Barn Where Emmett Till Was Killed Will Soon Be A Memorial. By Joe Jurado / Newsone
