Past Voices
George Floyd’s Journey from Houston to Minneapolis Tells an Important Story. By Sarah Lahm / The Progressive
Skulls of 19 Black Americans Return to New Orleans After 150 Years in Germany. By Aishvarya Kavi / NYT
Woman Wins Legal Battle With Harvard Over Ancestor’s Slave Photos. By Tom Sanders / The Daily Beast
We Are Not Being Asked to Run Into Cannon Fire. We Just Need to Speak Up. By Drew Gilpin Faust / NYT
Charles B. Rangel, Longtime Harlem Congressman, Dies at 94. By Sam Roberts / NYT
NAACP Honors 3 Mississippi Civil Rights Trailblazers: ‘These Folks Sacrificed Everything.’ By Jeroslyn JoVonn / Black Enterprise
The Burning of Nottoway Plantation. By Maurice Carlos Ruffin / Time
What Would Malcolm X Say About America In 2025? By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
These 7 executive actions show how Trump wants to reshape American history. By Bill Chappell / NPR
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Pardoning the Scottsboro Boys, Eighty Years Too Late. By Katrina Vanden Heuvel / The Nation
The Jim Crow Origins of National Police Week. By Elizabeth Robeson / The Nation
Harlem’s Schomburg Center Celebrates 100 Years Of Black Culture Despite Anti-DEI Backlash. By Jameelah Mullen / Black Enterprise
What the Reconstruction Era Can Teach Us About the Politics of Shame. By Brandon Terry / Time
For Those Who Wish to Fight Back but Don’t Know How. By Jonathan Eig / NYT
These activists are ‘flooding the zone with Black history’ to protest Trump’s attacks on DEI. By Gloria Oladipo / The Guardian
Today Is Confederate Memorial Day And These States Are Still Proud Losers. By Sharelle Burt / Black Enterprise
5 Race Riots In America That You Were Never Taught In School. By Shannon Dawson / Newsone
Trump’s attack on diversity takes center stage as Boston remembers 1965 Freedom Rally led by MLK. By Michael Casey / ABC News
When the Supreme Court Spoke With One Voice. By Jeffrey Toobin / NYT
The Long Struggle of Jewish Americans Over Their Country’s Crises. By Benjamin Moser / NYT
Georgia university receives $500,000 grant to preserve Gullah Geechee heritage. By Adria R. Walker / The Guardian
What Was The Black Manifesto? Newsone Staff / Newsone
MLK’s Famous Letter Changed a DC Church. By Caleb Morell / Christianity Today
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
