Past Voices
The World of Slavery, Kidnapping, and the Slave Trade. By Derek Litvak / AAIHS
Julian Bond’s Life in Protest and Politics. By Robert Greene II / The Nation
The 1619 Project and the ‘Anti-Lincoln Tradition.’ By E. James West / AAIHS
Lynchings are part of Georgia’s history — and the state’s present. By Sandy Hodson / USA Today
The Battle Between W.E.B. Du Bois and His White Editor Was an Early Reckoning Over Objectivity. By Jacob Rosenberg / Mother Jones
A new statue of Lincoln will adequately honor him alongside Black Americans. By Frank Smith / Wash Post
How Has the Electoral College Survived for This Long? Resistance to eliminating it has long been connected to the idea of white supremacy. By Alexander Keyssar / NYT
Returning From War, Returning to Racism. By Alexis Clark / NYT
The lies our textbooks told my generation of Virginians about slavery. By Bennett Minton / Wash Post
Who Were the Freedom Riders? By Derrick Bryson Taylor / NYT
A black man accused of rape, a white officer in the Klan, and a 1936 lynching that went unpunished. By Michael S. Rosenwald / Wash Post
Black Deaths Matter: The Centuries-Old Struggle To Memorialize Slaves And Victims Of Racism. By Vicki Daniel / The Conversation
The Revolutionary Life of Paul Robeson: Scholar Gerald Horne on the Great Antifascist Singer, Artist and Rebel. By Jeremy Scahell / The Intercept Podcast
When Marian Anderson Defied the Nazis. By Kira Thurman / The New Yorker
Image of Thomas Jefferson alongside Black descendant holds ‘a mirror’ to America. By Sharmar Walters and Maia Davis / NBC News
Racist, brutal past or Hispanic history? Latinos clash over Spanish colonial statues. By Gwen Aviles / NBC News
What PTSD tells us about the history of slavery. By Tyler D. Parry / Wash Post
The Black Female Battalion That Stood Up to a White Male Army. By Christina Brown Fisher / NYT
The Hidden History Of Juneteenth. By Gregory P. Downs / TPM
Black Americans, crucial workers in crises, emerge worse off – not better. By Calvin Schermerhorn / The Conversation
Racial violence and a pandemic: How the Red Summer of 1919 relates to 2020. By Erik Ortiz / NBC News
How Richard Pryor Changed the Way Comedy Sees Police Brutality. By Jason Zinoman / NYT
What the Face of Emmett Till Says About Every Brutalized Black Body—Then and Now. By W. Ralph Eubanks / Vanity Fair
Like Trump, JFK faced riots. Here’s what he did to stop the violence in Birmingham in 1963. By Steven Levingston / Wash Post
During World War II, the black press campaigned for a double victory – over tyranny abroad and segregation at home. By Dan C. Goldberg / The Undefeated
Wilson Jerman witnessed it all in his 50-plus years in the White House. By Will Haygood / Wash Post
Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy? By The Editorial Board / NYT
The West is relevant to our long history of anti-blackness, not just the South. By Walter Johnson / Wash Post
The 1918 pandemic was linked to a rise in Nazi support. Will this pandemic be similar? By Igor Derysh / Salon
Discover the life and legacy of Lloyd Garrison Wheeler, the first black lawyer in Illinois. By Mitzi Miller / NYT
