Past Voices
My great-grandparents died in the Holocaust and were almost forgotten. By Zoe Zolbrod / Salon
The forgotten history of what California stole from Black families. by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil / The Guardian
The Missing Black Women in Denmark Vesey’s Conspiracy. By Karen Cook Bell / AAIHS
Jim Crow’s Forgotten History of Homicides. By Jennifer Szalai / NYT
Reckoning with the Slave Ship Clotilda. By Vera Caruthers / The New Yorker
Texas officials approve Texas 1836 Project to counter the 1619 Project. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
Alabama Sidesteps Compensation For Survivor Of ’63 KKK Blast. By Jay Reeves / HuffPost
More DNA sought from remains of possible Tulsa race massacre victims. CBS News
Conference on slave rebellions offers in-depth way to teach history some don’t want in schools. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Navy should rename warship that honors Confederate victory, commission recommends. By Lara Seligman / Politico
Philadelphia man completes over 400-mile walk along the Underground Railroad in honor of Harriet Tubman. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
Black Historians Know There’s No Such Thing As Objective History. By Keisha N. Blain / New Republic
New Jersey Hopes To ‘Elevate The Stories Of Black New Jerseyans’ With The Black Heritage Trail. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
U.S. Changes Names Of Places With Racist Term For Native Women. By Mead Gruver / HufPost
FBI File Shows Bureau Kept Tabs On Aretha Franklin’s Activism, A Common Focus During The Civil Rights Era. By Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN
Esther Cooper Jackson, Early Activist For Civil Rights, Dies At 105. By Emily Langer / Wash Post
Historian of Radical Right: Biden Is Correct, Trump Poses Existential Threat to Future of Democracy. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Richmond’s statues fell. Now these sisters aim to lift up Black history. By Gregory S. Schneider / Wash Post
She was the first Black child to desegregate her school. This is what she learnt. By Mary Louise Kelly, Elena Burnett, Mallory Yu and Courtney Dorning / NPR
World’s Richest Negro Girl’ inspired media ridicule, fascination, alarm. By Sudney Trent / Wash Post
How Black washerwomen in the South became pioneers of American labor. By Kim Kelly / Wash Post
Fight over future of library that sparked civil rights ideas. By Travis Loller / AP and ABC News
Black Historians, Race, and the Historical Profession. By Hettie Williams / AAIHS
Panel says West Point, Naval Academy should scrub Confederate names. By Julia Mueller / The Hill
Counties with more slaves in 1860 have higher gun ownership rates today, study finds. By Matthew Rozsa / Salon
Race, Welfare Reform, and the Push for Family Values. By Trumaine Mitchell / AAIHS
A Tiny House in Manhattan Has a Link to the Underground Railroad. By Juhn Freeman Gill / NYT
The Supreme Court and Racial Inequality. By Alani Golanski / AAIHS
The Unsung Heroes of the Underground Railroad. By Trisha Posey / Christianity Today
Statue honors once-enslaved woman who won freedom in court. By AP and NPR
