Past Voices
Native American histories show rebuilding is possible and necessary after catastrophe. By B.L. Blanchard / Vox
Zora Neale Hurston’s Eatonville Fights To Keep Land to Preserve History. By Aallyah Wright / Capital B
As GOP governors obscure Black history, let’s finally tell the truth about Marcus Garvey. By Justin Hansford and Shaq Al-Hijaz / CNN
Who are the ‘Courageous Eight’ in 1965 Selma Civil Rights marches? By Saleen Martin / USA Today
Myrlie Evers, civil-rights pioneer, still marches against racism at 90. By Susan Page / USA Today
A White woman re-creates the lives of her Black ancestors. By Maud Newton / Wash Post
A Florida town, once settled by former slaves, now fights over “sacred land.” By Martha Teichner / CBS News
Audubon faces a backlash over keeping a name that evokes a racist enslaver. By Bill Chappell / NPR
This new play details historic Tampa lunch counter sit-ins. By Maggie Duffy / Tampa Bay Times
Museums and Universities Pledge to Return Native American Remains. By Logan Jaffe, Mary Hudetz and Ash Ngu / ProPublica
Harriet Tubman monument unveiled, replacing Columbus statue in Newark. By Liam Reilly and Kia Fatahi / CNN
The Real Wakanda: How an East African Kingdom Changed Theodore Roosevelt and the Course of American Democracy. By Jonathan L. Earle / Politico
An Environmental History of Slavery: An Interview with David Silkenat. By Adam McNeil / AAIHS
The brief but shining life of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a poet who gave dignity to the Black experience. By Minnita Daniel-Cox / The Conversation
A Fresh Look at a Pioneering Black Voice of Revolutionary America. By Jennifer Schuessler / NYT
Black Women and the Racialization of Infanticide. By Rebekka Michaelsen / AAIHS
Rosewood Massacre at 100: Black Florida History and White Terror. By Dan Royles / AAIHS
Examining the Grand Ole Opry’s complicated role in Black history and the road ahead. By Marcus K. Dowling / USA Today
Historians shine light on lesser-known Black History at Bacon’s Castle in Surry County. By Jessica Larche / WTKR
The White Press & Jim Crow. By Justin Laing / AAIHS
Florida’s Stop Woke Act is latest in a long history of censoring Black scholarship. By Darryl Robertson / Andscape
The Campus Walkout That Led to America’s First Black Studies Department. By Farrell Evans / History
Angela Davis ‘Can’t Believe’ Ancestry Discovery About Mayflower Relative. By Chrissy Callahan / Today
Abraham Lincoln’s disastrous effort to get Black people to leave the U.S. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
‘The wound hasn’t healed’: Activists recount 1898 Wilmington coup that terrorized Black residents. By Sara Avery / ABC News
Why the United States Needs a New Reconstruction. By Robert Greene II / The Nation
