Past Voices
The History of Black Women and Violence. By Chinaza Okonkwo / AAIHS
African Americans and the State Militia. By Gregory Mixon / AAIHS
Mary McLeod Bethune, the Pan-Africanist: An Interview with Ashley Robertson Preston. By Karen Cook Bell / AAIHS
Black Studies and the Story of Survival. By Brandon James Render / AAIHS
What Does America Owe The Victims Of Racial Terrorism? By Charles M. Blow / NYT
The Monticello Plantation Hides Secrets About The Thomas Jefferson Mystery. By Linda Edwards / Showsnob
He Became the Nation’s Ninth Vice President. She Was His Enslaved Wife. By Shadowblot1 / The Daily Kos
How the Underground Railroad Got Its Name. By Scott Shane / NYT
7 state flags still have designs with ties to the Confederacy. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
The story of Emmett Till is the story of America. By Robert P. Jones / RNS
Bayard Rustin Challenged Progressive Orthodoxies. By James Kirchick / NYT
Georgia descendants of enslaved people face losing decades-old land protections. By The AP and NBC News
The Tulsa race massacre’s ‘public nuisance’ is an ongoing injustice. By Jasmine M. Green / Wash Post
A Montana Man Has The Oldest DNA Native To America, And It Changes What We Know About Our Ancestors. By ken Macdonald / Maternity Verse
Alabama Cherishes Its History of Defying the Federal Courts. By David Firestone / NYT
Robert Smalls and Reconstruction Politics. By Karen Cook Bell / AAIHS
Native tribe to get back land 160 years after largest mass hanging in US history. By AP and The Guardian
US has a long history of state lawmakers silencing elected Black officials and taking power from their constituents. By Rodney Coates / The Conversation
75 Years Later, the Lasting Impact of Executive Order 9981. By Liann Herder / Diverse Issues In Higher Ed.
A rare look at one of the “I Have A Dream” speech drafts. By Nicole Killion / CBS News Video
Since their foundings, HBCUs have been a white supremacist target. By Saida Grundy / The Guardian
White men have controlled women’s reproductive rights throughout American history – the post-Dobbs era is no different. By Rodney Coates / The Conversation
Fani Willis proves the skeptics wrong: 18 co-defendants is a big problem for Donald Trump. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
The Forgotten Radicalism of the March on Washington. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Florida Wanted “Opposing Viewpoints” on Slavery in A.P. African American Studies Course. By Ella Sherman / TNR
The Day Black Boys Burned: Uncovering The 1959 Fire At The Negro Boys Industrial School. By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
