Past Voices
‘Let the world know’: elderly survivors of the Tulsa race massacre push for justice. By David Smith / The Guardian
Florida still recognizes 3 Confederate holidays, but not Juneteenth. ByJake Stofan / Action News Jax
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s ancestors were enslaved. Her husband’s were enslavers. By Sally H. Jacobs / Wash Post
Silicon Valley hidden figures rush to preserve forgotten Black history. By Jessica Guynn / USA Today
Who was Fort Bragg named after? The South’s worst, most hated general. By Ronald G. Shafer / Wash Post
Celebrating Racial Justice and Equality on Juneteenth. By Alaysia Hackett / The Progressive
A Grad Student Found the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S. By Jennifer Berry Hawes / Propublica
Denmark Vesey Revolt: How House Slaves Betrayed Their Own. By D.L. Chandler / Newsone
Reparations debate: Mending the past, forging the future. By Peter Grier / Christian Science Monitor
Generations After Slavery, Georgia Neighbors Find Freedom and Repair in Christ. By Melissa Morgan Kelley / CT
How Black Americans combated racism from beyond the grave. By David B. Parker / The Conversation
Louisiana Army Based Named after WWI Sgt. William Henry Johnson. By Kalyn Womack / The Root
Liberals love Teddy Roosevelt – but his racism paved the way for Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson. By Matthew Rozsa / Salon
Slave cases are still cited as good law. This team is trying to change that. By Rachel Treisman / NPR
Memory of Samuel J. Bush, Black man lynched by mob, remembered by family, activists. By Okelo Pena / ABC News
Remembering Medgar Evers, 60 years after his death. By Julian Ring / NPR
A few Indian boarding schools remain open. By Sequola Carillo and Allison Herra / NPR
Fort Bragg becomes Fort Liberty in Army’s most prominent move to erase Confederate names from bases. By Hannah Schoebaum / AP
Descendants of early Black Californians want their ancestors’ stolen land back. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
A Black girl won the first national spelling bee, dealing a blow to racism. By Bill Chappell / NPR
Black people may have started Memorial Day. Whites erased it from history. By Donald Beaulieu / Wash Post
US Army Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas’ journey from enslaver to Union officer to civil rights defender. By Christopher Justin Einolf / The Conversation
How Greenwood Grew a Thriving Black Economy. By Victor Luckerson / NYT
The Defender and Chicago’s Built Environment. By Ray Dinsmore / AAIHS
Social Welfare and the Politics of Race in the Post-Civil War South. By Ryan W. Keating / AAIHS
Ultra Violence. By Nelson Lichtenstein / Dissent
Black Resistance and Slave Politics in Lowcountry Georgia. By Karen Cook Bell / AAIHS
The Last-Known ‘Colored’ School in Manhattan Becomes a Landmark. By Lola Fadulu / NYT
Most U.S. Latino history is left out of high school textbooks, study finds. By Edwin Flores / NBC News
King Cotton: The Confederacy’s Attempt to Gain Legitimacy Through Cotton. By Hansen’s Histories / Morning Clips
