Past Voices
In Tulsa, the movement for reparations scores a historic victory. By Karen Attiah / Wash Post
When Did Racism Begin? By Vanita Seth / The Chronicle of Higher Ed
In 1896, Black intellectuals criticized The Post’s coverage of race. By John Kelly / Wash Post
Catholic Order Struggles to Raise $100 Million to Atone for Slave Labor. By Rachel L. Swan / NYT
American Democracy Was Never Designed to Be Democratic. By Louis Menand / The New Yorker
How Policing Black Women’s Bodies Built the Modern City. By Simon Balto / AAIHS
Lincoln’s midterms: The lessons of 1862, and how they may still apply. By Matthew Rozsa / Salon
When America Joined the Cult of the Confederacy. By Brent Staples / NYT
Colonial Williamsburg tells the story of early American settlers. But in 1956 it paved over Black history to make a parking lot. By Jacquelyne Germain / CNN
Ivy League university set to rebury skulls of Black people kept for centuries. By Ed Pilkington / The Guardian
Reproductive Justice and Black Women’s Activism. By Tiana U. Wilson / AAIHS
Unsolved murders and the mothers of Jackson, Mississippi. By Jim Axelrod and Andrew Bast / CBS News
Reproductive Rights, Slavery, and ‘Dobbs v. Jackson.’ By Jennifer L. Morgan / AAIHS
Why Slavery is So Hard to Teach in Schools. By Giulia Heyward / Capital B
Racism, policing, politics and violence: How America in 2022 was shaped by 1964. By Robert S. Mcelvaine / Salon
Alethia Tanner Day honors enslaved woman who bought her freedom. By Omari Daniels / Wash Post
Excavation of graves begins at site of colonial Black church. By Ben Finley / Religion News
Emmett Till’s Chicago home will get historic preservation funds. By AP and NPR
When Tribal Nations Expel Their Black Members. By Philip Deloria / New Yorker
Emmett Till’s family rebuts claims in accuser’s recently leaked memoir. By Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News
‘Pivotal Moment’: Statue of Mary McLeod Bethune Is the First Black Figure In U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall State Collection. By Nyamekye Daniel / Atlanta Black Star
US Military Bases Honoring Confederate Figures Slated to Get New Names. By Dora Mekouar / VOA News
‘Giving Students the History They Need.’ By Eleanor J. Bader / The Progressive
A small Wisconsin town is honored as the state’s first Black-founded community. By Diane Bezucha / NPR
Schomburg Center Volunteer Is One of the Last Surviving ‘Black Angels’. By Lisa Herndon / NYPL
Native American elders recall abuse at US government boarding schools. AP and The Guardian
What the History of Criminalizing Black Mothers Tells Us About the Post-Roe Legal Landscape. By Dahlia Lithwick / Slate
July Fourth parade led to a massacre of Black people in Hamburg, S.C. By Ronald G. Shafer / Wash Post
Black Marines who served on racially segregated Montford Point are being honored. By Jay Price / NPR
Clifford Alexander Jr., first Black secretary of Army, dies at 88. By Alexa Mills / Wash Post
