Past Voices
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
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
