Past Voices
How the Underground Railroad Got Its Name. By Scott Shane / NYT
7 state flags still have designs with ties to the Confederacy. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
The story of Emmett Till is the story of America. By Robert P. Jones / RNS
Bayard Rustin Challenged Progressive Orthodoxies. By James Kirchick / NYT
Georgia descendants of enslaved people face losing decades-old land protections. By The AP and NBC News
The Tulsa race massacre’s ‘public nuisance’ is an ongoing injustice. By Jasmine M. Green / Wash Post
A Montana Man Has The Oldest DNA Native To America, And It Changes What We Know About Our Ancestors. By ken Macdonald / Maternity Verse
Alabama Cherishes Its History of Defying the Federal Courts. By David Firestone / NYT
Robert Smalls and Reconstruction Politics. By Karen Cook Bell / AAIHS
Native tribe to get back land 160 years after largest mass hanging in US history. By AP and The Guardian
US has a long history of state lawmakers silencing elected Black officials and taking power from their constituents. By Rodney Coates / The Conversation
75 Years Later, the Lasting Impact of Executive Order 9981. By Liann Herder / Diverse Issues In Higher Ed.
A rare look at one of the “I Have A Dream” speech drafts. By Nicole Killion / CBS News Video
Since their foundings, HBCUs have been a white supremacist target. By Saida Grundy / The Guardian
White men have controlled women’s reproductive rights throughout American history – the post-Dobbs era is no different. By Rodney Coates / The Conversation
Fani Willis proves the skeptics wrong: 18 co-defendants is a big problem for Donald Trump. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
The Forgotten Radicalism of the March on Washington. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Florida Wanted “Opposing Viewpoints” on Slavery in A.P. African American Studies Course. By Ella Sherman / TNR
The Day Black Boys Burned: Uncovering The 1959 Fire At The Negro Boys Industrial School. By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
More schools that forced American Indian children to assimilate revealed. By Dana Hedgpeth and Emmanuel Martinez / Wash Post
The 1963 March on Washington Changed America. Its Roots Were in Harlem. By John Leland / NYT
Savannah picks emancipated Black woman to replace name of slavery advocate on historic square. By AP and Andscape
Betty Tyson, Who Was Wrongfully Imprisoned for Murder, Dies at 75. By Sam Roberts / NYT
For true national unity, the Confederate Memorial at Arlington must go. By Charles Lane / Wash Post
How the words of ‘I Have a Dream’ soared and challenged the nation 60 years ago. By John Avlon / CNN
Don’t listen to the critics: reparations for slavery will right historical wrongs. By Kenneth Mohammed / The Guardian
A Black man’s brutal murder has faded from a Texas town’s memory. By Emanuel Felton / Wash Post
Women at the first March on Washington: a secretary, a future bishop and a marshal. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Using Frederick Douglass to Rationalize Slavery? In Florida, Yes! By Charles M. Blow / NYT
How GOP lawmakers are pushing for Confederate monuments to be (legally) set in stone. By Abhinav S. Krishman / USA Today
