Past Voices
Finding the last ship known to have brought enslaved Africans to America and the descendants of its survivors. By Anderson Cooper / CBS News
George Washington’s 1795 Thanksgiving celebrated liberty. But the chef behind the feast had none. By Ramin Ganeshram / Wash Post
What you learned about the first Thanksgiving isn’t true. Here’s the real story. By Eryn Dion / USA Today
Graves found at site of historic Virginia Black church. By Michael E. Ruane / Wash Post
Amiri Baraka, Black Music, and Black Modernity. By Wilton Schereka / AAIHS
The Black Native American descendants fighting for the right to belong. By Claire Tighe / NBC News
UC Berkeley removed the names of ‘racist’ figures from two of its buildings. By Christina Zdanowicz / CNN
Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America. By Kerri Greenidge / NYT
St. Mary’s College of Maryland unveils memorial to enslaved people on its campus. By Joe Heim / Wash Post
The Challenge of Black Patriotism. By Theodore R. Johnson / NYT
Segregation policies in federal government in early 20th century harmed Blacks for decades. By Guo XU and Abhay Aneja / The Conversation
How the FBI Tried to Drive Martin Luther King Jr. to Suicide. Melissa Leon / The Daily Beast
Fort Hood is named for a Confederate traitor. Is it time for ‘Fort Benavidez’? By Alex Horton / Wash Post
Harris will be the first female, Black and Asian VP. But not the first VP of color. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
Once a symbol of desegregation, Ruby Bridges’ school now reflects another battle engulfing public education. By Connie L. Schaffer, Matha Graham Viator and Meg White / The Conversation
GI Bill opened doors to college for many vets, but politicians created a separate one for Blacks. Joseph Thompson / The Conversation
Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes. By Jennifer Schuessler / NYT
The Visual Documentation of Racist Violence in America. By Mary Niall Mitchell /AAIHS
A Black voting rights activist confronts the ghosts of racial terror in North Carolina. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
How Lincoln Survived the Worst Election Ever. There are many parallels between 1860 and 2020. Let’s hope there aren’t too many. By Ted Widmer / NYT
Jackie Robinson challenged baseball and others to acknowledge, value Black life. By Doug Glanville / The Undefeated
He fought for Black voting rights after the Civil War. He was almost killed for it. By Jess McHugh / Wash Post
Tulsa begins search for ‘Original 18’ Black people killed in 1921 race massacre. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
Book Review: The Dead Are Arising,’ by Les Payne and Tamara Payne. By Michael P. Jeffries
Elijah Cummings has a message for voters ‘from beyond the grave.’ By Nicole Goodkind / Fortune
The bogus U.S. census numbers showing slavery’s ‘wonderful influence’ on the enslaved. By Peter Whoriskey / Wash Post
Tragedy and Triumph: The Dorothy Dandridge Story. By Hadley Hall Meares / Vanity Fair
The Exhausted Radiance of Claudine. By Charles Taylor / Dissent
Greensboro Massacre: City Apologizes 41 Years After Cops Allowed Klan, Nazis to Kill 5 Antiracists. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
The United States vs. Billie Holiday. By Lawwrence Wu / NPR
