Past Voices
America’s Ugliest Confederate Statue Is Gone. Racism Isn’t. By Margaret Renkl / NYT
Highways, High-Rises And Food Deserts. By E. James West / AAIHS
Ethical US consumers struggled to pressure the sugar industry to abandon slavery with less success than their British counterparts. By Calvin Schermerhorn / The Conversation
Black Remembrance and Racial Violence in New Orleans. By Sowande’ M. Mustakeem / AAIHS
MLK And Lillian Smith. By Matthew Teutsch / AAIHS
César Chávez’s march that changed it all is the topic of a new graphic novel. By Arturo Conde / NBC News
Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s History Lessons. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
U.S.’ oldest surviving WWII veteran, Lawrence Brooks, has died at the age of 112. By Walter Einenkel / Daily Kos
‘If not us, then who?’: inside the landmark push for reparations for Black Californians. By Vivian Ho / The Guardian
Louisiana Gov. To Posthumously Pardon Homer Plessy, Of ‘Separate But Equal’ Ruling. By Janet McConnaughey / HuffPost
‘Physically Erased’: Archaeologists Rediscover Fourth Forgotten Black Cemetery Near Site of Florida Office Building. By Niara Savage / Atlanta Black Star
The battle over January 6 started in 1865. By Peniel E. Joseph / CNN
Former boarding school for Indigenous children owning up to its past. By Peter Smith / NCR
Civil rights leaders of 1961 about resisting injustice today. By Mike Thompson / USA Today
Wrongfully Accused: The Exoneration of Black People. By Noah A. McGee / The Root
Legacy of Black architect Paul Williams is not new but it’s worthy of celebration all the same. By Lauren Floyd / Daily Kos
Who Gets to Define What It Means to Live? By Nick Romeo / NYT
Last Known Slave Ship Is Remarkably Well Preserved, Researchers Say. By Michael Levenson / NYT
The Fight to Remember the Black Rebellion at Igbo Landing. By Remenda Cyrus / Mother Jones
New venue for revised look at U.S. racism’s history: roadside markers. CBS News
How the Hart–Celler Act Changed America. By Ruth Milkman / Dissent
What Made Black History in 2021? By Dodal Stewart / NYT
70 Years Ago Black Activists Accused the U.S. of Genocide. They Should Have Been Taken Seriously. By Alex Hinton / Politico
Mary McLeod Bethune’s statue to replace Confederate figure at the Capitol. By Kynala Phillips / NBC News
Black Remembrance and Racial Violence in New Orleans. By Sowande’ M. Mustakeem / AAIHS
A hero finally receives his overdue recognition: The Medal of Honor. By Editorial Board / Wash Post
A Grim, Long-Hidden Truth Emerges in Art: Native American Enslavement. By Patricia Leigh Brown / NYT
Judge Clears Court Record Of Civil Rights Pioneer Claudette Colvin. By Jay Reeves / HuffPost
Slavery and Reconstruction-era violence still shape our legal system. By Tiffany Wright / USA Today
The incredible story of William Leidesdorff, San Francisco’s Black founding father. By Benjamin Schneider / SFExaminer
