Past Voices
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
Families of Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King Jr. condemn Trump for using images of civil rights icons in ad. By Christopher Brito / CBS News
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The history, the lyrics and the impact. By Faith Karimi and AJ Willingham / CNN
Featured – The German model for America. By Mattie Kahn / Vox
The origins of policing in America. Wash Post Video
Remembering The Augusta Civil Rights Riot, 50 Years Later. By Sea Stachura / NPR
California was a free state. But there was still slavery. Now reparations are on the table. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
THE FIRSTS: The children who desegregated America. A Special project from The Atlantic.
‘Blatant disregard and disrespect of Black people’: Virginia district apologizes for segregated schools – 53 years later. By Elinor Aspegren / USA Today
On Louisville, Breonna Taylor, and Muhammad Ali. By David Zirin / The Nation
Making Amends for a Massacre: The Story of Rosewood’s Path to Reparations—And What America Can Learn From It. By Victor Luckerson / Time
Freedom Day, 1963: A Lost Interview with James Baldwin. By Fern Marjo Eckman / The New Yorker
Police Power and the Election of Newark’s First Black Mayor. By Andrew Grimm / AAIHS
How Jewish history and the Holocaust fueled Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s quest for justice. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
A Pattern of Resistance: The Tuskegee Airmen on Trial, Part 1. By Michael Hankins / Smithsonian
Revisiting Lerone Bennett Jr.’s ‘Forced Into Glory.’ By E. James West / AAIHS
The history of Black voter suppression — and the fight for the right to vote. By LaTosha Brown / NBC News Video
Black scuba divers document slave shipwrecks forgotten for generations. By Allie Yang / ABC News
Black, Native American and Fighting for Recognition in Indian Country. By Jack Healy / NYT
Our Long, Forgotten History of Election-Related Violence. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Fascism Scholar Says U.S. Is ‘Losing Its Democratic Status.’ By Christianna Silva and james Doubek / NPR
Tulsa Race Massacre survivors file lawsuit, demanding ‘repair’ for 1921 attack. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
The History of Black College Football. By Joshua Crutchfield / AAIHS
The Massacre That Emboldened White Supremacists. By William Briggs and Jon Krakauer / NYT
Presidents have a long history of condescension, indifference and outright racism towards Black Americans. By Stephen A. Jones and Eric Freedman / The Conversation
What the 19th Amendment Meant for Black Women. By Martha S. Jones / Politico
