Past Voices
The Musical Legacy of a Mississippi Prison Farm. By Hanif Abdurraqib / The New Yorker
Mary E. Pleasant: Reshaping the Landscape of Segregation in California. By E. Nicole Vines / AAIHS
The Man Who Became Uncle Tom. By Clint Smith / The Atlantic
America Helped My Ancestors Flee Antisemitism. The Lakota Paid the Price. By Rebecca Clarren / Politico
Lessons for today from the overlooked stories of Black teachers during the segregated civil rights era. By Marlee Bunch / The Conversation
How Black WWI veterans got their own VA hospital in Tuskegee. By Debbie Elliott / NPR
Hope, Faith, and Metaphor in African American History. By Nico Slate / AAIHS
Why separating fact from fiction is critical in teaching US slavery. By Eric Gable and Richard Handler / The Conversation
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
