Past Voices
Freedom Riders faced a mob at this bus station. DOGE wanted to sell it. By Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Wash Post
A university confronts the dark history of a stolen heart in a vibrant way. By Michael Laris / Wash Post
‘Black Men Were Considered Second Class’: Missing Black Sailor Killed In Pearl Harbor Attack Finally Identified, Laid to Rest with Military Honors 83 Years After His Death. By Yasmeen F. / Atlanta Black Star
Appomattox Exposes the Dangers of Myths Replacing History. By Elizabeth R. Varon / Time
Donald Trump’s War on History. By David Corn / Mother Jones
Former FIU Professor Teaches Black History Under A Tree. By Zack Linly / Newsone
The Kids Who Got Bused—And Became Democrats. By Jerusalem Demsas / The Atlantic
American liberators of Nazi camps got ‘a lifelong vaccine against extremism’ − their wartime experiences are a warning for today. By Sara J. Brenneis / The Conversation
America Has Gotten Coretta Scott King Wrong. By Jeanne Theoharis / The Atlantic
American hell. In the last year of his life, Martin Luther King Jr.’s confidence in the politics of progressivism dimmed. Judgment became his refrain. By Isaac S. Villegas / Christian Century
From the Confederacy to the Gilded Age: Manisha Sinha on the “sorry history” that inspires MAGA. By Charles R. Davis / Salon
Why the Court Hit the Brakes on School Desegregation. By Louis Menand / The New Yorker
How Newspapers Struggled to Cover Segregation in the North. By Jeanne Theoharis / Time
Maryland Reparations Bill Head To Gov. Wes Moore For Approval. By Kandiss Edwards / Black Enterprise
Descendants Of Enslaved People Who Helped Build Saint Louis University Reject Formal Apology, Calling It ‘Performative.’ By Nahlah Abdur-Rahman / Black Enterprise
The Untold Story Of The Black Pilgrims Of Plymouth Colony. By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
Jan. 23, 1873: Jonathan C. Gibbs Named Florida Superintendent of Public Instruction / By Zinn Education Project
Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving WWII paratrooper, has died. By Hallie Golden / AP
Niagara Movement (1905-1909). By Stephanie Christensen / BlackPast.org
The Rise and Fall of a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. By Jeff Shesol / NYT (April 2, 2023 issue)
Mia Love, first Black Republican congresswoman, dies at 49. By Adam Bernstein and Annabelle Timsit / Wash Post
Slavery’s legacy remains in Puerto Rico. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
When the KKK Came to D.C. By Van R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic
They Blinded A Black Soldier—Now They’re Blinding America. By Antjuan Seawright / Newsone
Dorothy Height, NCNW, and the National Black Family Reunion. By M. Keith Claybrook / AAIHS
Trump’s deranged purge of American history is the story of white supremacy. By Michael Signorile / AlterNet
The Founders Were Afraid for the Country, Too. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Very dangerous’: Japanese Americans warn of Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act. By David Nakamura / Wash Post
‘Disgraceful’: Medgar Evers, Once Hailed As ‘a Great American Hero’ By Donald Trump Vanishes from Arlington National Cemetery Website As Trump’s DEI Purge Rewrites History. By Christian Boone / Atlanta Black Star
D.C. Museum Exhibit Illuminates the Brutalities of Slavery. By Ronald Bailey / Reason
