Past Voices
WHO honors Henrietta Lacks, woman whose cells served science. By Jamey Keaten / AP and ABC News
Bryan Stevenson, Legacy Museum founder, on American enslavement and modern-day incarceration. By Jamil Smith / Vox
Monument honoring indigenous women to replace Columbus statue in Mexico City. By AP and NPR
Mary McLeod Bethune statue to replace Confederate general in Capitol. By Eileen Zaffiro-Kean / USA Today
Black Women, Self-Making, and Liberty. By Ashley Everson / AAIHS
Timuel Black Jr., historian and civil rights activist, dies at 102. By Grace Hauck and Javonte Anderson / USA Today
One of the nation’s oldest Black churches unearthed in Virginia. By Ben Finley / USA Today
Lawrence Reddick and the Communal Acts of Black History. By Stephen G. Hall / AAIHS
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Biden becomes first president to mark day.
The brutal trade in enslaved people within the US has been largely whitewashed out of history. By Joshua D. Rothman / The Conversation
Black Student Activism and Durham’s Campus Movement. By Brandon K. Winford / AAIHS
The myths about slavery that still hold America captive. By John Blake / CNN
After California moves to return Bruce’s Beach to Black family, a push to recover other seized land. By Alicia Victoria Lozano and Lindsey Davis / NBC News
Journalists bungled coverage of the Attica uprising. 50 years later, the consequences remain. By Erik Wemple / Wash Post
When Black History Is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak for the Dead? By Jill Lepore / The New Yorker
In 1865, thousands of Black South Carolinians signed a 54-foot-long freedom petition. By Michael E. Ruane / Wash Post
Civil rights lessons from 1961 influence 2021. The fight is not over. By Nicole Carroll / USA Today
The Betrayal of Historically Black Colleges. By Katherine Mangan / The Chronicle of Higher Education
Remembering Virginia’s ‘Forgotten 14.’ By A. Donald McEachin / Wash Post
Historic Black cemetery buried below parking lot at center of legal dispute. By Erik Ortiz / NBC News
Bringing Black History to Life in the Great Outdoors. By James Edward Mills / NYT
The Latino family of Sylvia Mendez were pivotal in the desegregation fight. By Raul A. Reyes / NBC News
The ugly history behind those border agents chasing Haitian migrants on horseback. By Julia Craven / Slate
Martin Luther King, Jr. and 1619. By Robert Greene II / AAIHS
Some Asked, ‘Does Chattanooga Need a Lynching Memorial?’ By Chris Moody / NYT
Digital records from 19th Century give Black families a glimpse of their ancestry. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Robert E. Lee was a stone-cold loser. By Dana Milbank / Wash Post
Where are the monuments to Confederate Gen. James Longstreet? By Stephen A. Holmes / CNN
Alphaeus Hunton: The Fight for Equality and Liberation during WWII. By Tony Pecinovsky / AAIHS
Theorists, Strategists, and Histories of Slavery. By Diana Paton / AAIHS
