Past Voices
An African American holiday predating Juneteenth was nearly lost to history. It’s back. By Eduardo Cuevas / USA Today
The Conservative War on Democracy Was Over 200 Years in the Making. By Ari Berman / Mother Jones
How an Alabama Town Staved Off School Resegregation. By Jennifer Berry Hawes / ProPublica
In the Name of God. By Sari Horwitz et al. / Wash Post
Does Memorial Day have its origins in defeated Confederates? By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
How Residents in a Rural Alabama County Are Confronting the Lasting Harm of Segregation Academies. By Jennifer Berry Hawes / ProPublica
In a place with a history of hate, an unlikely fight against GOP extremism. By Hannah Allam / Wash Post
A once-enslaved man’s music was hidden for centuries. Go on a journey to rediscover his melodies. By Diane Orson / CPR
Revolutionary Ideals And Black Realities. By Steve Mintz / Inside Higher Ed.
A century ago, anti-immigrant backlash almost closed America’s doors. By Matthew Smith / The Conversation
The Lynching That Sent My Family North. By Ko Bragg / The Atlantic
Family Files Lawsuit For Black Teen Who Was Wrongly Convicted. By Noah A McGee / The Root
Brown v. Board: The Momentous School Desegregation Decision. By Earl Warren / The Atlantic April 1977 Issue
Preying on white fears worked for Georgia’s Lester Maddox in the ’60s − and is working there for Donald Trump today. By David Cason / The Conversation
Mary McLeod Bethune, known as the ‘First Lady of Negro America,’ also sought to unify the African diaspora. By Ashley Bobertson Preston / The Conversation
The 12 Black women behind Brown v. Board often go unrecognized. A new exhibit aims to change that. By Kalyn Belsha / Chalkbeat
How America tried and failed to stay White. By Eduardo Porter / Wash Post
First free Black settlement in U.S., long buried, is being resurrected. By Sarah Enelow-Snyder / Wash Post
The Black Town Under Lake Martin: A Father & Son’s Dream Of Greatness. By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
Her Name Was Ella Watson. By Salamishah Tillet / The Atlantic
Did You Know The Oldest Degree-Granting HBCU Was Founded 170 Years Ago Today? By Rayna Reid Rayford / Essence
On its 125th anniversary, W.E.B. Du Bois’ ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ offers lasting lessons on gentrification in Philly’s historically Black neighborhoods. By Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana and Freeden Blume Oeur / The Conversation
Historians Look Back at Life and Career of Civil Rights Activist and Representative John Lewis in New Biography. By Charlotte Phillipp / People
The Racist Origins of America’s Broken Immigration System. By Felipe De La Hoz / TNR
An Unholy Traffic: how the slave trade continued through the US civil war. By Rich Tenorio / The Guardian
Mississippi one of only four states that still celebrates Confederate Memorial Day. Why? By Grant McLaughlin / Clarion Ledger
Juneteenth or Jefferson Davis? Ala. state workers may have to choose. By Rachel Hatzipanagos / Wash Post (Image Britannica)
The Conservative Who Turned White Anxiety Into a Movement. By Ari Berman / The Atlantic
William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist, scholar and friend of Malcolm X, has died. By Michael Casey / ABC News
Galvanizing the American Public, ANC and Anti-Apartheid. By Jessica Ann Levy / AAIHS
