Past Voices
The Mysterious Life and Afterlife of Private Fitz Lee. By Carol Rosenberg / NYT
Her 1951 walkout helped end school segregation. Now her statue is in the U.S. Capitol. By Rachel Treisman / NPR
“Honor Our History”: Trump Slammed for Ending Free National Park Entry on Juneteenth & MLK Day. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it. By Jeanne Theoharis / The Guardian
Where Are the Black Panther Party Leaders Today? By Asheea Smith / The Root
America stares down erasure of Black history and progress. By Delano Massey / Axios
What Rosa Parks can teach us about resistance today. By Jan-Werner Muller / The Guardian
Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown. By Jill Cowan / NYT
‘Becoming Thurgood’: How Marshall became ‘Mr. Civil Rights’ and a Supreme Court icon. By Ken Makin / CSMonitor
Barn Where Emmett Till Was Killed Will Soon Be A Memorial. By Joe Jurado / Newsone
The Right Wants to Write Indigenous People Out of US History. We Won’t Let Them. By Johnnie Jae / Truthout
Allensworth: How Racism Destroyed A Black Town In California. By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
Viola Fletcher, oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 111. By Emily Langer / Wash Post
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82. By Paul Vitello / NYT
The Ken Burns Case for Breaking the Myth of the American Revolution. By Lex Pryor / The Ringer
Meet the first self-ruled community of Black freedmen called Mitchelville — still standing on Hilton Head’s shores. By Natasha S. Alford / The Grio
Ruby Bridges’ Legacy: The Lessons America Still Hasn’t Learned. By Shannon Dawson / Newsone
The remains and stories of Native American students reclaimed from a Pennsylvania cemetery. By Mark Scolforo / NCR
Black Music Sunday: Celebrating W.C. Handy, ‘The Father of the Blues.’ By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Memorial Honoring Black WWII Soldiers Silently Removed From U.S. Military Cemetery In The Netherlands. By Jeroslyn JoVonn / Black Enterprise
The Ideal That Underlies the Declaration of Independence. By Walter Isaacson / The Atlantic
Jefferson and the contradictions behind ‘All men are created equal.’ By Michael Kranish / Wash Post
Wilmington 1898: How a white supremacist coup erased Black political power in NC. By EJI / USA Today
In Search of the Simpsonville Massacre. By Alexander Nazaryan / NYT
A ‘Woke’ Military Won World War II. By Ed Gitre / Time
The Wish to Be Seen. By Laylah Amatullah Barrayn / NYT
Ken Burns says ‘American Revolution’ doc could help US ‘with the divisions of today.’ By Judy Kurtz / The Hill
Rosa Parks and Helen Keller statues will be unveiled at the Alabama Capitol. By AP and NBC News
The Million Man March 30 Years Later: A Reflection on the Accountability of Atonement. By Edmond W. Davis / Eurweb
Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks With the Clear Voice of a Free Man. By Dave Zirin / The Nation
