Past Voices
As the Voting Rights Act Nears 60, Conservative Judges Are Gutting It From Every Angle. By Ari Berman / Mother Jones
A century after Tulsa Race Massacre, city creates reparations committee. By Kyle Melnick / Wash Post
What unites Trump and Hitler: “Fierce determination and self-imposed blindness.” By Chauncey Devega / Salon
How Tribal Nations Are Reclaiming Oklahoma. By Rachel Monroe / The New Yorker
White woman who wrongfully accused ‘Groveland Four’ of rape in Jim Crow-era South dies at 92. By Devon M. Sayers, Sara Weisfeldt and Emma Tucker. / CNN
How a Supreme Court decision kept school segregation alive. By Michelle Adams / Wash Post
The Black Ballot: Unraveling The Legacy Of Civil Rights And Political Shifts In America. By Brianna Sharpe / Newsone
Robert L. Allen, Who Recounted a Naval Mutiny Trial, Dies at 82. By Richard Sandomir / NYT
More than 900 Native American children died at U.S. boarding schools. By Dana Hedgpeth and Sari Horwitz / Wash Post
New Richmond institute to examine how slavery helped build modern America. By Gregory S. Schneider / Wash Post
From Obama to Harris, a look at what’s changed. By Leah Donnella / NPR Podcast
The Black women who paved the way for Kamala Harris. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
Buses weren’t the only civil rights battleground in Montgomery – the city’s parks still reflect a history of segregation. By Binita Mahato / The Conversation
For Black people, there’s an important history of flight as fight. By Kellie Carter Jackson / CNN
The Navy exonerates 256 Black sailors unjustly punished over WWII explosion. By Ayana Archie / NPR
Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86. By Mike Stobbe / ABC News
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
