Past Voices
America had open borders until 1924. Racism and corporate greed changed that. By Daniel Mendiola / The Guardian
The use of federal troops to quell Los Angles protests recalls militarized law enforcement during the Civil Rights Movement. By Justin Randolph / The Conversation
Schomburg Center centennial highlights large catalog of Black history. By Jaylen Green / AP
The Freedom Rides Museum Still Exists — For Now. By Margaret Renkl / NYT
You Know Of The Tuskegee Airmen, But You Don’t Know What ‘The Harlem ‘Hellfighters’ Did to Win The War. By Lawrence Ware / The Root
Overlooked No More: Hong Yen Chang, Lawyer Who Challenged a Racist System. By Julie Ho / NYT
Mass graves of slaughtered Black Civil War soldiers discovered in Kentucky. By Debadrita Sur / Daily Express
Why The History Of Segregated Facilities Matters In The Trump Era. By Shannon Dawson / Newsone
$105 Million Reparations Package for Tulsa Race Massacre Unveiled by Mayor. By Audra D. S. Burch and Breena Kerr / NYT
George Floyd’s Journey from Houston to Minneapolis Tells an Important Story. By Sarah Lahm / The Progressive
Skulls of 19 Black Americans Return to New Orleans After 150 Years in Germany. By Aishvarya Kavi / NYT
Woman Wins Legal Battle With Harvard Over Ancestor’s Slave Photos. By Tom Sanders / The Daily Beast
We Are Not Being Asked to Run Into Cannon Fire. We Just Need to Speak Up. By Drew Gilpin Faust / NYT
Charles B. Rangel, Longtime Harlem Congressman, Dies at 94. By Sam Roberts / NYT
NAACP Honors 3 Mississippi Civil Rights Trailblazers: ‘These Folks Sacrificed Everything.’ By Jeroslyn JoVonn / Black Enterprise
The Burning of Nottoway Plantation. By Maurice Carlos Ruffin / Time
What Would Malcolm X Say About America In 2025? By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
These 7 executive actions show how Trump wants to reshape American history. By Bill Chappell / NPR
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Pardoning the Scottsboro Boys, Eighty Years Too Late. By Katrina Vanden Heuvel / The Nation
The Jim Crow Origins of National Police Week. By Elizabeth Robeson / The Nation
Harlem’s Schomburg Center Celebrates 100 Years Of Black Culture Despite Anti-DEI Backlash. By Jameelah Mullen / Black Enterprise
What the Reconstruction Era Can Teach Us About the Politics of Shame. By Brandon Terry / Time
For Those Who Wish to Fight Back but Don’t Know How. By Jonathan Eig / NYT
These activists are ‘flooding the zone with Black history’ to protest Trump’s attacks on DEI. By Gloria Oladipo / The Guardian
Today Is Confederate Memorial Day And These States Are Still Proud Losers. By Sharelle Burt / Black Enterprise
5 Race Riots In America That You Were Never Taught In School. By Shannon Dawson / Newsone
Trump’s attack on diversity takes center stage as Boston remembers 1965 Freedom Rally led by MLK. By Michael Casey / ABC News
When the Supreme Court Spoke With One Voice. By Jeffrey Toobin / NYT
The Long Struggle of Jewish Americans Over Their Country’s Crises. By Benjamin Moser / NYT
Georgia university receives $500,000 grant to preserve Gullah Geechee heritage. By Adria R. Walker / The Guardian
