Past Voices
The Mysterious Story Of Tituba: A Black Slave Woman Who Sparked The Salem Witch Trials.
Where Kamala Harris Lives, a Little Known History of Enslavement. By Robert Draper / NYT
A Virginia city burdened by history seeks a better future. By Theodore R. Johnson / Wash Post
Black sailor killed at Pearl Harbor identified after 80 years. By Michael E. Ruane / Wash Post
In Martin Luther King’s last speech, people remember the mountaintop but ignore the poor. By Clarence B. Jones / USA Today
How Mississippi’s Jim Crow Laws Still Haunt Black Voters Today. By Daja E. Henry / The Marshall Project
Uncovering The Black City Buried Under Lake Lanier. By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
Daniel A. Moore, Founder of an African American Museum, Dies at 88. By Adam Nossiter / NYT
“They Don’t Want to Teach Black History.” By Frances Madeson / Mother Jones
Last remaining Tulsa Race Massacre survivors argue for appeal in reparations lawsuit dismissal. By Steve Osunsami and Dhanika Pineda / ABC News
Hope is not the same as optimism, a psychologist explains − just look at MLK’s example. By Kendra Thomas / The Conversation
Free Blacks in Accomack County during the Antebellum Period. By Sabrina Watson / AAIHS
Northern Journalism in the Promotion of the Lost Cause. By Marvin Walker / AAIHS
Bryan Stevenson Says a Quest for “Historical Authenticity” Inspired the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. By Kia D. Goosby
Why civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was ‘sick and tired of being sick and tired.’ By Marlee Bunch / The Conversation
83 Years After His Killing, a Black Soldier Gets an Army Funeral. By Alexa Mills / NYT
Once a Roadside Attraction, a Native Burial Site Nears Repatriation. By Julia Jacobs / NYT
A California City Wrestles With Its History Of Discrimination Against Early Chinese Immigrants. By Terry Tang And Deepa Bharath / RNS
History of The Crisis: “A Record of the Darker Races.” By the NAACP
A Florida Community Faces Erasure. Residents Are Honoring Its History. By Aallyah Wright / Capital B
When Segregation Prevailed in the US, Boys Town May Have Been Nation’s First Integrated Community. By Henry Cordes / Omaha World-Herald
The Dichotomy of Enslaved Women’s Work in the Antebellum South. By O.G. McClinton, III / AAIHS
How Virginia Used Segregation Law to Erase Native Americans. By Ashley R. Craig and Gregory D. Smithers / Time
The Buffalo Soldier Who Ordered An Artillery Barrage On His Own Position To Save His Comrades. By Samantha Franco / War History
Black twin sisters buy Woodland Plantation, site of the largest US uprising of enslaved people. By Lottie L. Joiner / HuffPost
How the Black female head of a top D.C. school was ‘punished for leading.’ By Shirley Moody-Turner / Wash Post
6 Side-By-Side Portraits Of Black Civil War Heroes And Their Direct Descendants. By Rokas Laurinavičius and Indrė Lukošiūtė / Boredpanda
The Harlem Renaissance wasn’t just nightclubs. It was about ideas. By Phillip Kennicott / Wash Post
Dorie Ladner, Unheralded Civil Rights Heroine, Dies at 81. By Sam Roberts / NYT
Retired FAMU prof barred from conference hotel during segregation. Now, he’s being honored. By Alaijah Brown / Tallahassee Democrat
