Past Voices
Black Educators as Movement Leaders. By Noah Nelson / AAIHS
All The Ways Sandra Bland’s Legacy Lives On. By Bruce C.T. Wright / NewsOne
The Trump-Musk power grab has happened before — in Hungary. By Zack Beauchamp / Vox
The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white. By Deborah W. Parker / The Conversation
Activists are warning of a return to the Jim Crow era in America. But who or what was Jim Crow? By Clare Carbould / The Conversation
Attacking the Dream: 7 major race massacres in US history. By Michael Gryboski / Christian Post
“Great Migrations: A People on the Move” shows the leaps of faith that made modern America. By Melanie McFarland / Salon
Trump’s urgent push to rewrite American history. By Naftali Bendavid / Wash Post
The brief but shining life of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a poet who gave dignity to the Black experience. By Minnita Daniel-Cox / The Conversation
Overlooked No More: Annie Easley, Who Helped Take Spaceflight to New Heights. By Dylan Loeb McClain / NYT
Fighting school segregation didn’t take place just in the South. By Ashley Farmer / The Conversation
Dred Scott — A Century After. By Fred Rodell / The Atlantic
Harvard University Disbands Slavery Remembrance Program, Fires Staff. By Daniel Johnson / Black Enterprise
MLK’s ‘beloved community’ has inspired social justice work for decades − what did he mean? By Jason Oliver Evans / The Conversation
Trump Takes a Red Pen to History. By Frank Bruni / NYT
The Dubious History of America’s Most Famous Monarchist. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Biden Posthumously Pardons Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey. By Colleen Long / HuffPost
The Great Migration and Black Women’s Political Work. By Katie Singer / AAIHS
More Than a Century After the Tulsa Race Massacre, One Question Endures: What Is Justice? Visuals by Joseph Rushmore and Text by Audra D. S. Burch / NYT
Two states still honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Day. See which ones, why. By Bonnie Bolden / Clarion Ledger
In historically Black neighborhoods, the California wildfires could leave deeper inequality in its wake. By Andscape and AP
What Were The Slave Narratives? Why They Were So Important. By Bilal G. Morris / NewsOne
A look at Tallahassee’s first Black landowners after the Civil War. By Ana Goñi-Lessan / Tallahassee Democrat
Tulsa Massacre Was a ‘Coordinated, Military-Style Attack,’ Federal Report Says. By Audra D. S. Burch / NYT
Charles Person, youngest of the Freedom Riders, dies at 82. By Harrison Smith / Wash Post
Not all insurrections are equal – for enslaved Americans, it was the only option. By Deion Scott Hawkins / The Conversation
