Past Voices
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
The Man Who Made the Suburbs White. By Mark Dent / Slate
Morgan Freeman Shines Long-Overdue Spotlight On Black War Heroes In New Documentary. By Jazmin Tolliver / HuffPost
Georgia Indictment Lessons From the South’s History of Democratic Decay. By Anthony Michael Krels / NYT
On The Anniversary of Michael Brown, Other Protests to Remember. By Jessica Washington / The Root
Revealing the Smithsonian’s Racial Brain Collection. By Nicole Dungca and Claire Healy / Wash Post
Documentary traces history of policing the Black community – from slavery through present day. By Stanley Nelson, Valerie Scoon and Allie Weintraub / ABC News
’10 Million Names’ project aims to recover hidden history of enslaved African Americans. By Terri Martin and Allie Weintraub / ABC News
A brief history of the Ku Klux Klan Acts: 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump. By Joseph Patrick Kelly / The Conversation
Henry Cort stole his iron innovation from Black metallurgists in Jamaica. By Regina G. Barber, Carly Rubin , Berly McCoy, Rebecca Ramirez / NPR
Activists Have Long Called for Charleston to Confront Its Racial History. Tourists Are Now Expecting It. By Jennifer Berry Hawes / Propublica
John Mercer Langston Paved the Way for Black U.S. Representatives, But Most People Don’t Know It. By Tom Shields / Diverse Issues in Higher Ed
Biden Will Establish A National Monument Honoring Emmett Till, The Black Teen Lynched In Mississippi. By Darlene Superville / HuffPost
‘Rustin’ First Look: Colman Domingo Is Bayard Rustin, the Man Who Turned MLK’s Dream Into a Reality. By Chris Murphy / Vanity Fair
Activists split over whether reparations should go to Black immigrants. By Emmanuel Felton / Wash Post
Black deaf students to receive high school diplomas 70 years after graduation. By Nicole Chavez and Isabel Yip / CNN
The Unsung African American Scientists of the Manhattan Project. By Farrell Evans / History
At ‘ground zero’ for slavery, a new museum helps rewrite history. By Edward Ball / Wash Post
My Life in the Aftermath of Martin Luther King’s Assassination. By Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly / The New Yorker
How Confederate migration spread white supremacy in the West. By Todd A. Price / USA Today
The little-known publisher who tutored Hubert Humphrey about racism. By Samuel G. Freedman / Andscape
America’s back-and-forth struggle toward equality continues. By Jim Jones / The Hill
The West’s water system is grappling with a racist past and hotter future. By Lauren Sommer / NPR
A shipwreck awash in Black history takes center stage in Alabama. By Donna M. Owens / NBC News
Legacy Of The Trail Of Tears Complicating Bid For Cherokee Representation In House. By Jonathan Nicholson / HuffPost
Frederick Douglass Knew What False Patriotism Was. By Esau McCaulley / NYT
