Past Voices
The American Election That Set the Stage for Trump. By Isaac Chotiner / The New Yorker
On Juneteenth, Freedom Came With Strings Attached. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
How Harriet Tubman relied on nature to bring the enslaved to freedom. By Tiya Miles / Wash Post
Almost 9 In 10 House Republicans Voted To Put A Confederate Memorial Back At Arlington National Cemetery. By Jonathan Nicholson / HuffPost
40 Acres and a Lie. A Collaboration between Mother Jones and Reveal
Only 1.8% of US doctors were Black in 1906 – and the legacy of inequality in medical education has not yet been erased. By Benjamin Chrisinger / The Conversation ( Black students at Meharry Medical College in 1915)
Supreme Court’s Civil War callback: Justice is denied with historic Trump delay. By Jeffrey Abramson and Dennis Aftergut / Salon
What If Reconstruction Didn’t End Till 1920? By Eric Herschthal / The New Republic
Tributes Pour In After Civil Rights Icon James Lawson Dies At 95. Bruce C.T. Wright / Newsone
The 19th-Century Club You’ve Never Heard of That Changed the World. By Jon Grinspan / NYT
D-Day Black History: 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion Untold Story. By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
The Confederacy was Racist Christian Nationalists. By Jim Messner Jr. / Patheos
Black World War II medic awarded posthumous Distinguished Service Cross. By Nicole Chavez / CNN
Black Achievement, White Flight, and Brown’s Legacy. By David J. Armor / Education Next
Tulsa Race Massacre Photos: Vintage Pictures Of Anti-Black Terror. By Bruce C.T. Wright / Newsone
An African American holiday predating Juneteenth was nearly lost to history. It’s back. By Eduardo Cuevas / USA Today
The Conservative War on Democracy Was Over 200 Years in the Making. By Ari Berman / Mother Jones
How an Alabama Town Staved Off School Resegregation. By Jennifer Berry Hawes / ProPublica
In the Name of God. By Sari Horwitz et al. / Wash Post
Does Memorial Day have its origins in defeated Confederates? By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
How Residents in a Rural Alabama County Are Confronting the Lasting Harm of Segregation Academies. By Jennifer Berry Hawes / ProPublica
In a place with a history of hate, an unlikely fight against GOP extremism. By Hannah Allam / Wash Post
A once-enslaved man’s music was hidden for centuries. Go on a journey to rediscover his melodies. By Diane Orson / CPR
Revolutionary Ideals And Black Realities. By Steve Mintz / Inside Higher Ed.
A century ago, anti-immigrant backlash almost closed America’s doors. By Matthew Smith / The Conversation
The Lynching That Sent My Family North. By Ko Bragg / The Atlantic
Family Files Lawsuit For Black Teen Who Was Wrongly Convicted. By Noah A McGee / The Root
Brown v. Board: The Momentous School Desegregation Decision. By Earl Warren / The Atlantic April 1977 Issue
Preying on white fears worked for Georgia’s Lester Maddox in the ’60s − and is working there for Donald Trump today. By David Cason / The Conversation
Mary McLeod Bethune, known as the ‘First Lady of Negro America,’ also sought to unify the African diaspora. By Ashley Bobertson Preston / The Conversation
