Past Voices
How the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike Changed the Labor Movement. By Kurtis Lee / NYT
Joyce Ladner and SNCC. By Mariee Bunch / AAIHS
Indians and the American Story. By Peter C. Meilaender / The Bulwark
The Missing History Of Africa In American Education. By Daina Ramey Berry / Forbes
Black Administrative Politics and the Question of the US State. By Frances O’Shaughnessy / AAIHS
How the Voting Rights Act, Newly Challenged, Has Long Been Under Attack. By Nick Corasaniti / NYT
How Reconstruction Created American Public Education. By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
Should Frederick Douglass be posed in a rap squat? Descendants say no. By Petuyla Dvorak / Wash Post
The urgent need for a truth and healing commission on Indian boarding schools. By Bridget Moix / RNS
Why We Have to Reckon With the Real Malcolm X. By Peniel E. Joseph / NYT
Dozens of Black soldiers were sentenced to life or hanged after the 1917 ‘Houston Riot.’ The Army has now overturned their convictions. By The Grio Staff
New museum honors untold stories of enslaved Africans through genealogy. By Anne Azzi Davenport and Geoff Bennett / PBS
How the Negro Spiritual Changed American Popular Music – and America Itself. By Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic
The Wilmington massacre of 1898: a shocking episode of racist violence. By Daniel R. Biddle / The Guardian
Tulsa massacre survivors make final court plea for reparations. By Ashlee Banks / The Grio
‘Half American’ explores how Black WWII servicemen were treated better abroad. By Dave Davies / NPR Podcast
A law that helped end slavery is now a weapon to end affirmative action. By Julian Mark / Wash Post
Nearing Her 109th Birthday, and Still Waiting for Her Day in Court. By Audra D.S. Burch / NYT
Henry Ford’s Anti-Semitism Was Not a Footnote. By Daniel Schulman / The Atlantic
Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away. By Mike Lofgren / Salon
Sojourner Truth Was a ‘Double Woman’ in More Ways than One. By Obbie Tyler Todd
The Legal History of Travel Discrimination. By Rebecca Dudley / AAIHS
Long before Elon Musk, Henry Ford went to war with Jewish groups. By Shera Avi-Yonah / Wash Post
Filipinos who fought for the U.S. in WWII never saw benefits. A new bill seeks to change that. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
Leroy Stover, Birmingham’s first Black police officer, dies at 90. By AP and ABC News
The Sacred Ground Where Black Americans Search for Their Roots. By Margo Snipe / Capital B
