Past Voices
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
Bronze Statue Honoring First Black Fighter Pilot Unveiled in Georgia. By Tanasia Kenney / Atlanta Black Star
How Italians Became ‘White.’ Vicious bigotry, reluctant acceptance: an American story. By Brent Staples / NYT
Why is the Army Still Honoring Confederate Generals? By James Risen / The Intercept
Elaine Massacre: Federal troops escorting African Americans to the schoolhouse in Elaine, Ark; October 1919. By Christina Maxouris / CNN
When Anti-Immigration Meant Keeping Out Black Pioneers. By Anna Lisa Cox / NYT
Exclusive: Martin Luther King Jr. Talks Reparations, White Economic Anxiety and Guaranteed income in a Previously Unheard Speech. By Michael Hariot / The Root
Revisiting the Poor People’s Campaign and Its Legacy. By Bobby Cervantes / AAIHS
Restoring Black Cowboys to the Range. By Sarah Maslin Nir / NYT
Teaching Hard History. Preface by Hasan Kwame Jeffries / Southern Poverty Law Center
