Past Voices
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
My Life in the Aftermath of Martin Luther King’s Assassination. By Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly / The New Yorker
How Confederate migration spread white supremacy in the West. By Todd A. Price / USA Today
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
