Past Voices
The Right Wants to Write Indigenous People Out of US History. We Won’t Let Them. By Johnnie Jae / Truthout
Allensworth: How Racism Destroyed A Black Town In California. By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
Viola Fletcher, oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 111. By Emily Langer / Wash Post
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82. By Paul Vitello / NYT
The Ken Burns Case for Breaking the Myth of the American Revolution. By Lex Pryor / The Ringer
Meet the first self-ruled community of Black freedmen called Mitchelville — still standing on Hilton Head’s shores. By Natasha S. Alford / The Grio
Ruby Bridges’ Legacy: The Lessons America Still Hasn’t Learned. By Shannon Dawson / Newsone
The remains and stories of Native American students reclaimed from a Pennsylvania cemetery. By Mark Scolforo / NCR
Black Music Sunday: Celebrating W.C. Handy, ‘The Father of the Blues.’ By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Memorial Honoring Black WWII Soldiers Silently Removed From U.S. Military Cemetery In The Netherlands. By Jeroslyn JoVonn / Black Enterprise
The Ideal That Underlies the Declaration of Independence. By Walter Isaacson / The Atlantic
Jefferson and the contradictions behind ‘All men are created equal.’ By Michael Kranish / Wash Post
Wilmington 1898: How a white supremacist coup erased Black political power in NC. By EJI / USA Today
In Search of the Simpsonville Massacre. By Alexander Nazaryan / NYT
A ‘Woke’ Military Won World War II. By Ed Gitre / Time
The Wish to Be Seen. By Laylah Amatullah Barrayn / NYT
Ken Burns says ‘American Revolution’ doc could help US ‘with the divisions of today.’ By Judy Kurtz / The Hill
Rosa Parks and Helen Keller statues will be unveiled at the Alabama Capitol. By AP and NBC News
The Million Man March 30 Years Later: A Reflection on the Accountability of Atonement. By Edmond W. Davis / Eurweb
Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks With the Clear Voice of a Free Man. By Dave Zirin / The Nation
The Lincoln Way. How he used America’s past to rescue its future. By Jake Lundberg / The Atlantic
Donald Trump’s new “American Midnight” is upon us. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
These Iconic Landmarks Were Built By Black Americans. By Mahalia Otshudy / The Root
History shows war against immigrants will backfire on all Americans. By Eduardo Porter / The Guardian
Trump ‘OK’ with DC statue honoring Civil War leader who fought for slavery: ‘Lot of people in this room’ agree. By Andrew Feinberg / Independent
Our HBCU We Never Knew and the arts center, artists, and scholars working to keep its memory alive. WPLN
Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told. By Kurt Streeter / NYT
‘The Birthplace Of African American History’ Is A Fascinating Florida Landmark Hidden In A Stunning State Park. By Hannah Saab / Islands
The Forgotten Fight: 10 Black Suffragists Who Battled For The Vote Beyond The 19th Amendment. By Black Enterprise Editors
Beyond Tulsa: Uncovering America’s Forgotten Black Wall Streets And Their Legacies Today. By Jazmin Goodwin / Yahoo news
