Past Voices
The little-known publisher who tutored Hubert Humphrey about racism. By Samuel G. Freedman / Andscape
America’s back-and-forth struggle toward equality continues. By Jim Jones / The Hill
The West’s water system is grappling with a racist past and hotter future. By Lauren Sommer / NPR
A shipwreck awash in Black history takes center stage in Alabama. By Donna M. Owens / NBC News
Legacy Of The Trail Of Tears Complicating Bid For Cherokee Representation In House. By Jonathan Nicholson / HuffPost
Frederick Douglass Knew What False Patriotism Was. By Esau McCaulley / NYT
The Paragraph On Slavery That Never Made It Into The Declaration Of Independence. By Ben Railton / TPM
How an enslaved genius saved the Capitol dome’s ‘Freedom’ statue. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
Florida Black History and the Horrors of Slavery Not Taught in Schools. By Jess Nelson / Miami New Times
Black-owned banks, born out of post-slavery economic barriers, seek to address racial wealth gap. By Osej Serratos, Morgan Norwood, and Allie Weintraub / ABC News
Christine King Farris, sister of Dr. Martin Luther King, dies at 95. By Devon M. Sayers and Justin Gamble / CNN
Slavery’s descendants: America’s family secret. By Reuters and NBC News
A Brief History of Affirmative Action and the Assault on Race-Conscious Admissions. By Wil Del Pilar / The Education Trust
Mother Mary Lange, founder of first African American religious congregation, declared venerable. By Hannah Brockhaus / CNA
How ex-Confederates spread racist attitudes far and wide after the Civil War. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
‘Let the world know’: elderly survivors of the Tulsa race massacre push for justice. By David Smith / The Guardian
Florida still recognizes 3 Confederate holidays, but not Juneteenth. ByJake Stofan / Action News Jax
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s ancestors were enslaved. Her husband’s were enslavers. By Sally H. Jacobs / Wash Post
Silicon Valley hidden figures rush to preserve forgotten Black history. By Jessica Guynn / USA Today
Who was Fort Bragg named after? The South’s worst, most hated general. By Ronald G. Shafer / Wash Post
Celebrating Racial Justice and Equality on Juneteenth. By Alaysia Hackett / The Progressive
A Grad Student Found the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S. By Jennifer Berry Hawes / Propublica
Denmark Vesey Revolt: How House Slaves Betrayed Their Own. By D.L. Chandler / Newsone
Reparations debate: Mending the past, forging the future. By Peter Grier / Christian Science Monitor
Generations After Slavery, Georgia Neighbors Find Freedom and Repair in Christ. By Melissa Morgan Kelley / CT
How Black Americans combated racism from beyond the grave. By David B. Parker / The Conversation
