Past Voices
Assata Shakur, a fugitive American activist, dies in Cuba. By AP and NPR
A year before the Little Rock Nine, Bobby Cain helped integrate Southern schools. By Emmanuel Felton / Wash Post
How Black Ancestors Overcame Adversity, Racism, Discrimination. By Phenix S. Halley / The Root
Activists vow to protect display on George Washington’s tie to slavery. By Phaedra Trethan / USA Today
The Little Rock Nine Made History On This Day 68 Years Ago. By Ahsan Washington / Black Enterprise
Members of Md. Black Caucus vow action to restore neglected graveyard. By Katie Mettler and Michael Brice-Saddler / Wash Post
National parks axe signs about climate, slavery and Japanese internment. By Jake Spring / Wash Post
So You Want a Civil War? Let’s Pause to Remember What One Looks Like. By David Blight / TNR
Trump Admin Orders Removal Of Notable Photo Of Formerly Enslaved Man From National Park. By Ben Glanchet / HuffPost
National Center for Civil and Human Rights expands at a critical moment. By Errol Burnett / CBS News
5 Little Girls And The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing. By Anoa Changa / Newsone
Yes, this is who we are: America’s 250-year history of political violence. By Maurizio Valsania / The Conversation
The Ritual of Civic Apology. By Beth Lew-William / The New Yorker
The Courtroom Gladiator Who ‘Made America America.’ By Ed Rampell / The Progressive Magazine
U.S. Took Gullah Geechee Land in WWII. They Want It Back. By Adam Mahoney / Capital B
Amid debate about U.S. history, Harlem Hellfighters receive Congressional Gold Medal. By Alana Wise / NPR
Slavery Was Not Just Forced Labor but Sexual Violence Too. By Channing Gerard Joseph / The Nation
Trump’s ‘crusade to rehabilitate the Confederacy’ has backfired: conservative analyst. By Robert Davis / Raw Story
This 45-year-old case explains the “Jim Crow juries” that still haunt Louisiana. By Richard A. Webster / Salon
Escaped slaves on St. Croix hid their settlements so well, they still haven’t been found – archaeologists using new mapping technology are on the hunt. By Justin Dunnavant / The Conversation
Mississippi Museum Acquires Gun Linked to Emmett Till’s Murder. By Emily Cochrane and Audra D. S. Burch / NYT
‘Katrina babies’ describe their ongoing recovery 20 years after deadly storm. By Katie Kindelan / ABC News
International Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade: ‘Time to abolish exploitation once and for all.’ By United Nations
How the Irish Liberator helped liberate America’s enslaved. By Christian E. O’Connell / Wash Post
An Unconstitutional “Jim Crow Jury” Sent Him to Prison for Life. A New Law Aims to Keep Him There. by Richard A. Webster / ProPublica
Why Republicans keep saying slavery was great. By Oliver Willis / Daily Kos
