Past Voices
When Shirley Chisholm paid a visit to George Wallace. By Adam Nicholas Phillips / RNS
The Black fugitive who inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and the end of US slavery. By Susanna Ashton / The Conversation
Honoring Pioneering Journalist Ida B. Wells, Born On This Day In 1862. By Asha Bandele / Newsone
Eric Garner’s ‘I can’t breathe’ continues to echo across NYC and the world 10 years after his death. By Arun Venugopal / Gothamist
A stunning find in his family tree: The Bushes’ ancestors enslaved his relatives. By Tara Bahrampour / Wash Post
Charlotte Forten Describes Life on the Sea Islands. By Charlotte Forten Grimke’ / The Atlantic (May 1864 Issue)
Scientists identify victim of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in mass grave. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
After MLK’s home was bombed, he refused to back down: ‘This movement will not stop. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
Born into slavery, he rose to the top of France’s art world. By Sebastian Smee / Wash Post
Woodland Plantation house, site of Louisiana slave revolt, under Black ownership. By Debbie Elliott / NPR
Tessie Prevost, who integrated New Orleans public schools, has died. By Debbie Elliott / NPR
Trump’s Lust for Expulsion Has Deep Roots. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
The Forgotten Black Explorers Who Transformed Americans’ Understanding of the Wilderness. By Amanda Bellows / Smithsonian Magazine
Who Died in the Tulsa Race Massacre? By Audra D. S. Burch / NYT
How White Supremacy Became A Part Of American Culture. By Newsone Staff
Black economic boycotts of the civil rights era still offer lessons on how to achieve a just society. By Kevin A. Young / The Conversation
‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’: The History of Frederick Douglass’ Searing Independence Day Oration. By Olivia B. Waxman / Time
Descendants Push for Monument at Tulsa Race Massacre Site. By Brooke Leigh Howard / Daily Beast
A Visual History of the Harlem Renaissance. By The New York Times
Looking forward and back as the Civil Rights Act turns 60. By Deborah Barfield Berry / USA Today
How Black Americans have been cheated out of land ownership – and the movement to reverse this . By Andrew Lawrence / The Guardian
THE PACIFIC: The Warriors That HBO Forgot – Black Soldiers In the Pacific. By Ronald David Jackson / Internet Archive
Once Upon A Time, Enslaved Africans Were An Insurance Commodity. By Stacey Patton / Black Enterprise
These Badges Shed New Light on the Enslaved Workers Who Built Charleston. By Sarah Kuta / Smithsonian Magazine
The site of the first free Black town in the U.S. is being rebuilt near St. Augustine. By C. Isaiah Smalls II / Miami Herald
Three Evangelical ‘Founding Fathers’ and Their Complicated Relationships to Slavery. By Robert Caldwell III / CT
How 99 Black Americans Gained—Then Lost—Land On An Idyllic Georgia Island. By Ruth Murai / Mother Jones
Paying reparations for slavery is possible – based on a study of federal compensation to farmers, fishermen, coal miners, radiation victims and 70 other groups. By Linda J. Bilmes and Cornell William Brooks / The Conversation
In 1964, the Klan killed three young activists and shocked the nation. By Susan Levine / Wash Post
The legacy of a last name: A new memorial park honors the last names of the formerly enslaved. By Victor Blackwell and Devon M. Sayers / CNN
