Past Voices
Ella Baker’s Legacy Runs Deep. Know Her Name. By Barbara Ransby / NYT
An enslaved man was crucial to the Lewis and Clark expedition’s success. Clark refused to free him afterward. By Hannah Natanson / Wash Post
Fifty Years After the Police Murders of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. By Norman Stockwell and Frances Madeson / The Progressive
‘The War of Races’: How a hateful ideology echoes through American history. By Michael E. Miller / Wash Post
Slavery cost him his family. That’s when Henry ‘Box’ Brown mailed himself to freedom. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
This week is the somber anniversary of the largest mass execution in the US. By Leah Asmelash / CNN
The Dark History of New Year’s Day in American Slavery / By Olivia B. Waxman / Time
An investigation has revealed what may be 2 mass grave sites from the 1921 Tulsa race riots. By Elizabeth Wolfe and Saeed Ahmed / CNN
Overlooked No More: Bessie Coleman, Pioneering African-American Aviatrix. By Daniel E. Slotnik / NYT
Jacqueline Woodson on Africa, America and Slavery’s Fierce Undertow. By Jacqueline Woodson / NYT
Ralph Ellison’s Slow-Burning Art. Sixty years of the writer’s letters chart his evolution from iconoclast to icon. By Kevin Young / The New Yorker
Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah. By Siddhartha Mitter / NYT
The Thanksgiving an imprisoned Jack Johnson fought two men at Leavenworth. By Roberto Jose Andrade Franco / The Undefeated
The Death of the Black Utopia. By Brent Staples / NYT
Overlooked No More: Lillian Harris Dean, Culinary Entrepreneur Known as ‘Pig Foot Mary.’ By Amelia Nierenberg / NYT
The game desegregating college football in the South happened 50 years ago. By Samuel G. Freedman / The Undefeated
The Electoral College’s Racist Origins. By Wilfred Codrington III / The Atlantic
You know about the Underground Railroad. But what about the Reverse Underground Railroad? By Richard Bell / Wash Post
The Enduring Battle to Diversify Historical Reenactment. By Nick Martin / The New Republic
Frederick Douglass’s Vision for a Reborn America. By David W. Blight / The Atlantic
The Legend of A-N-N-A: Revisiting and American Town Where Black People Weren’t Welcome After Dark. By Logan Jaffe / ProPublica
GI Bill opened doors to college for many vets, but politicians created a separate one for blacks. By Joseph Thompson / The Conversation
Hundreds March In Reenactment Of A Historic, But Long Forgotten Slave Rebellion. By Leila Fadel / NPR
The ‘Lost Cause’ That Built Jim Crow. Southern “Redeemers” snuffed out the first black power movement. By Henry Louis Gates / NYT
What W. E. B. Du Bois Conveyed in His Captivating Infographics. By Hua Hsu / The New Yorker
The history of black baseball in D.C. includes Frederick Douglass’ sons, Josh Gibson and the fight for equality. By Rhiannon Walker / The Undefeated
The Massacre That Spawned the Alt-Right. By Shaun Assael / Politico
Sexual Violence Against Enslaved Men. By Kevin C. Quinn / AAIHS
When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr. By Thomas Meaney / NYT
Here are the indigenous people Christopher Columbus and his men could not annihilate. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
