Past Voices
Examining the American Medical Association’s racist history and its overdue reckoning. Yamiche Alcindor and Claire Mufson / PBS
From Charleston to Minneapolis, America grapples with symbols of slave-owning past. By Kimeko McCoy / The Undefeated
Mayor Apologizes On Behalf Of City For Deadly Shooting On Historically Black Campus. By Emily Wagster Pettus / HuffPost
Black Resistance from Augusta to BLM. By John Hayes and Nefertiti Robinson / AAIHS
The Victims of the Philadelphia MOVE Bombing Continue to Be Erased. By Heather Ann Thompson / The New Yorker
‘Foot soldiers’ of Birmingham to BLM: ‘Keep on keeping on.’ By Jay Reeves / AP and ABC News
You Must Work or Die: The Long History of “Worker Shortages.” By Jan Schwarz / The Intercept
The Fight to Preserve Greenwood. By Caleb Gayle / The Atlantic
Why Does the Myth of the Confederate Lost Cause Persist? By Clint Smith / The Atlantic
What slavery reparations from the federal government could look like. By P.R. Lockhart / NBC News
Maryland Governor Issues Blanket Pardon For Lynching Victims. By Dominique Mosbergen / HuffPost
National Geographic faced up to its racist past. Did it actually get more diverse or inclusive? By Anna North and Kainaz Amaria / Vox
The Stealth Sticker Campaign to Expose New York’s History of Slavery. By Julianne McShane / NYT
The Ridiculously Racist History of Menthol Cigarettes. By Kali Holloway / The Daily Beast
The Entwined History of Freedom and Racism. By Olúfémi O. Táíwò / The Nation
The First Africans in America. Black America’s Neglected Origin Stories. By Annette Gordon-Reed / The Atlantic
1619 is a pivotal date in American history for two reasons. By Rebecca Ruiz / Mashable
VMI votes to scrub Stonewall Jackson from buildings. By Ian Shapira / Wash Post
Freedom Riders marker in Fredericksburg, Va., tells the ‘untold story.’ By Rachel Hatzipanagos / Wash Post
Town’s Statue Of Colonial Woman Who Killed Natives Sparks Debate. By Amelia Mason / NPR
Some Statues Tell Lies. This One Tells the Truth. By Timothy Egan / NYT
The ‘Mississippi Plan’ to keep Blacks from voting in 1890: ‘We came here to exclude the Negro.’ By Ronald G. Shafer / Wash Post
’The Blinding of Isaac Woodard’: Black World War II veteran fueled civil rights movement. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post/
Georgia park with giant Confederate carving proposes changes. By Sudhin Thanawala / AP and ABC News
Remembering Hubert Harrison, the Father of Harlem Radicalism. By Jeffrey B. Perry / AAIHS
Amid racial reckoning, National Park Service recognizes new Underground Railroad sites. By Michelle Stoddart / ABC News
The Forgotten Black Panthers. By Santi Elijah Holley / The Nation
How to confront systemic racism? Heed the call of Martin Luther King. By Michael Gerson / Wash Post
Before the Civil War, New Orleans Was the Center of the U.S. Slave Trade. By Joshua D. Rothman / Smithsonian Magazine
Archaeologists find Maryland site of home where Harriet Tubman’s father once lived. By Mitchell McCluskey and David Williams / CNN
