Past Voices
Malcolm X’s family files $100 million wrongful death lawsuit, claims cover-up of his murder. By Tesfaye Negussie / ABC News
Harriet Tubman posthumously named a general in Veterans Day ceremony. By AP and NPR
Memorial service honors first Tulsa Race Massacre victim identified from mass graves. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
How pioneering Black liberals battled Thomas Jefferson’s “Dark Age.” By Paul Rosenberg / Salon
When a Multi-Racial Democracy Was Violently Overthrown in America. By Ed. Rampell / The Progressive
Maulana Karenga, Operational Unity, and the Black Power Movement. By M. Keith Claybrook, Jr / AAIHS
A Forgotten Eyewitness to Civil-Rights-Era Mississippi. By Paige Williams / The New Yorker
New Haven, Connecticut turned down what would have been the first Black college in 1831. Now, city officials might apologize. By Dawn Sawyer / CNN
How Native Americans guarded their societies against tyranny. By Kathleen DuVal / The Conversation.
How the John Birch Society tried to radicalize the American right in the ’60s. By Nellie Gilles / NPR
The road to a slave-free Georgia: the little-known history of state founder James Oglethorpe. By George Chidi / The Guardian
America’s newest monuments unveil a different look at the nation’s past. By Krystal Nurse / USA Today
The Troubled History of Medical Harm to Black Women. By Savannah Flanagan / AAIHS
Nat Turner’s Rebellion: An American Tale Of Defiance And Tragedy. By NewsOne Staff
Tulsa Race Massacre Update: DOJ Review Called Long Overdue. By Bruce C.T. Wright / Newsone
African Americans and the First Black Republic. By Sherri V. Cummings / AAIHS
The Civil War Still Echoes in the South, Forcing Towns to Take Sides. By Scott Calvert and Cameron McWhirter / WSJ
Traditions of Resistance in the Black Diaspora. By Christina Proenza-Coles / AAIHS
I see Howard of the 1980s in Kamala Harris. By Carla Hall / Wash Post
White People Have Never Forgiven Haitians for Claiming Their Freedom. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
Examining Identity in Louisiana’s 19th-Century Black Literature. By Tanguy Gil / AAIHS
Kamala Harris’ purported Irish ancestry highlights complicated backstory of identity and enslavement. By Christine Kinealy , Kimberly DaCosta and Miriam Nylan Grey / The Conversation
Project 1619 loses ‘a force of nature’ with death of founder Calvin Pearson. By Josh Janney / The Virginia-Pilot
Enslaved Women’s Resistance to Slavery and Gendered Violence. By Sean Gallagher / AAIHS
Montgomery County shouldn’t pave over a Black community’s past. By the Editorial Board / Wash Post
Kamala Harris’ purported ancestry highlights complicated backstory of Irish identity and enslavement. By Christine Kinealy, Kimberly DaCosta and Miriam Nylan Grey / The Conversation
