Past Voices
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
The Right Wants to Write Indigenous People Out of US History. We Won’t Let Them. By Johnnie Jae / Truthout
Allensworth: How Racism Destroyed A Black Town In California. By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
Viola Fletcher, oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 111. By Emily Langer / Wash Post
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82. By Paul Vitello / NYT
The Ken Burns Case for Breaking the Myth of the American Revolution. By Lex Pryor / The Ringer
Meet the first self-ruled community of Black freedmen called Mitchelville — still standing on Hilton Head’s shores. By Natasha S. Alford / The Grio
Ruby Bridges’ Legacy: The Lessons America Still Hasn’t Learned. By Shannon Dawson / Newsone
