Past Voices
Why We Have to Reckon With the Real Malcolm X. By Peniel E. Joseph / NYT
Dozens of Black soldiers were sentenced to life or hanged after the 1917 ‘Houston Riot.’ The Army has now overturned their convictions. By The Grio Staff
New museum honors untold stories of enslaved Africans through genealogy. By Anne Azzi Davenport and Geoff Bennett / PBS
How the Negro Spiritual Changed American Popular Music – and America Itself. By Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic
The Wilmington massacre of 1898: a shocking episode of racist violence. By Daniel R. Biddle / The Guardian
Tulsa massacre survivors make final court plea for reparations. By Ashlee Banks / The Grio
‘Half American’ explores how Black WWII servicemen were treated better abroad. By Dave Davies / NPR Podcast
A law that helped end slavery is now a weapon to end affirmative action. By Julian Mark / Wash Post
Nearing Her 109th Birthday, and Still Waiting for Her Day in Court. By Audra D.S. Burch / NYT
Henry Ford’s Anti-Semitism Was Not a Footnote. By Daniel Schulman / The Atlantic
Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away. By Mike Lofgren / Salon
Sojourner Truth Was a ‘Double Woman’ in More Ways than One. By Obbie Tyler Todd
The Legal History of Travel Discrimination. By Rebecca Dudley / AAIHS
Long before Elon Musk, Henry Ford went to war with Jewish groups. By Shera Avi-Yonah / Wash Post
Filipinos who fought for the U.S. in WWII never saw benefits. A new bill seeks to change that. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
Leroy Stover, Birmingham’s first Black police officer, dies at 90. By AP and ABC News
The Sacred Ground Where Black Americans Search for Their Roots. By Margo Snipe / Capital B
Using Horror to Explore Florida’s Ignored Civil Rights Movement. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
Robert E. Lee Confederate statue in Charlottesville melted down. By Debbie Elliott / NPR
Septima Clark and the Fight for Civil Rights. By Tara Kirton / AAIHS
Stop Messaging Me, A Black Journalist, About White Irish “Slaves.” By Garrison Hayes / Mother Jones
The Killing of Breonna Taylor Still Reverberates in Kentucky Politics. By Grace Panetta / Capital B
Back in the 1960s, the push for parental rights over school standards was not led by white conservatives but by Black and Latino parents. By Jerald Podair / The Conversation
Killers of the Flower Moon: What is the true story about the Osage Murders? By Aja Romano / Vox
The remarkable life of Samuel Ringgold Ward. By Kellie Carter Jackson / The Nation
When White Leaders Said the Quiet Part Out Loud. Famous quotes advocating racism. By William Spivey / The Good Men Project
Klan War: how Ulysses S Grant took the fight to the extreme right. By Rich Tenorio / The Guardian
The Last U.S. Slave Ship Arrived in Alabama 163 Years Ago — This New Museum Honors the 110 People on Board. By Natalie Preddie / Travel and Leisure
Dred Scott’s struggle for freedom honored with new memorial. By Gabrielle Hays and Solveig Rennan / PBS
Native Americans celebrate their histories and cultures on Indigenous Peoples Day. By Mark Theissen and Morgan Lee / ABC News
