Past Voices
Savannah picks emancipated Black woman to replace name of slavery advocate on historic square. By AP and Andscape
Betty Tyson, Who Was Wrongfully Imprisoned for Murder, Dies at 75. By Sam Roberts / NYT
For true national unity, the Confederate Memorial at Arlington must go. By Charles Lane / Wash Post
How the words of ‘I Have a Dream’ soared and challenged the nation 60 years ago. By John Avlon / CNN
Don’t listen to the critics: reparations for slavery will right historical wrongs. By Kenneth Mohammed / The Guardian
A Black man’s brutal murder has faded from a Texas town’s memory. By Emanuel Felton / Wash Post
Women at the first March on Washington: a secretary, a future bishop and a marshal. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Using Frederick Douglass to Rationalize Slavery? In Florida, Yes! By Charles M. Blow / NYT
How GOP lawmakers are pushing for Confederate monuments to be (legally) set in stone. By Abhinav S. Krishman / USA Today
The Man Who Made the Suburbs White. By Mark Dent / Slate
Morgan Freeman Shines Long-Overdue Spotlight On Black War Heroes In New Documentary. By Jazmin Tolliver / HuffPost
Georgia Indictment Lessons From the South’s History of Democratic Decay. By Anthony Michael Krels / NYT
On The Anniversary of Michael Brown, Other Protests to Remember. By Jessica Washington / The Root
Revealing the Smithsonian’s Racial Brain Collection. By Nicole Dungca and Claire Healy / Wash Post
Documentary traces history of policing the Black community – from slavery through present day. By Stanley Nelson, Valerie Scoon and Allie Weintraub / ABC News
’10 Million Names’ project aims to recover hidden history of enslaved African Americans. By Terri Martin and Allie Weintraub / ABC News
A brief history of the Ku Klux Klan Acts: 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump. By Joseph Patrick Kelly / The Conversation
Henry Cort stole his iron innovation from Black metallurgists in Jamaica. By Regina G. Barber, Carly Rubin , Berly McCoy, Rebecca Ramirez / NPR
Activists Have Long Called for Charleston to Confront Its Racial History. Tourists Are Now Expecting It. By Jennifer Berry Hawes / Propublica
John Mercer Langston Paved the Way for Black U.S. Representatives, But Most People Don’t Know It. By Tom Shields / Diverse Issues in Higher Ed
Biden Will Establish A National Monument Honoring Emmett Till, The Black Teen Lynched In Mississippi. By Darlene Superville / HuffPost
‘Rustin’ First Look: Colman Domingo Is Bayard Rustin, the Man Who Turned MLK’s Dream Into a Reality. By Chris Murphy / Vanity Fair
Activists split over whether reparations should go to Black immigrants. By Emmanuel Felton / Wash Post
Black deaf students to receive high school diplomas 70 years after graduation. By Nicole Chavez and Isabel Yip / CNN
The Unsung African American Scientists of the Manhattan Project. By Farrell Evans / History
At ‘ground zero’ for slavery, a new museum helps rewrite history. By Edward Ball / Wash Post
