Past Voices
Fifty Years After the Police Murders of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. By Norman Stockwell and Frances Madeson / The Progressive
‘The War of Races’: How a hateful ideology echoes through American history. By Michael E. Miller / Wash Post
Slavery cost him his family. That’s when Henry ‘Box’ Brown mailed himself to freedom. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
This week is the somber anniversary of the largest mass execution in the US. By Leah Asmelash / CNN
The Dark History of New Year’s Day in American Slavery / By Olivia B. Waxman / Time
An investigation has revealed what may be 2 mass grave sites from the 1921 Tulsa race riots. By Elizabeth Wolfe and Saeed Ahmed / CNN
Overlooked No More: Bessie Coleman, Pioneering African-American Aviatrix. By Daniel E. Slotnik / NYT
