Past Voices
Mississippi Museum Acquires Gun Linked to Emmett Till’s Murder. By Emily Cochrane and Audra D. S. Burch / NYT
‘Katrina babies’ describe their ongoing recovery 20 years after deadly storm. By Katie Kindelan / ABC News
International Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade: ‘Time to abolish exploitation once and for all.’ By United Nations
How the Irish Liberator helped liberate America’s enslaved. By Christian E. O’Connell / Wash Post
An Unconstitutional “Jim Crow Jury” Sent Him to Prison for Life. A New Law Aims to Keep Him There. by Richard A. Webster / ProPublica
Why Republicans keep saying slavery was great. By Oliver Willis / Daily Kos
U.S. releases Emmett Till investigation records ahead of 70th anniversary of his killing. By AP and NBC News
A new reading of Sherman’s march shows how enslaved people sought to free themselves. By Adria R. Walker / The Guardian
At Alabama plantation, families of enslavers and enslaved strike a deal. By Emmanuel Felton / Wash Post
North Carolina Confederate Monument Goes Too Far, Lawsuit Says. By Audra D. S. Burch / NYT
As civil rights books are pulled from school shelves, one Alabama town is refusing to forget its story. By Annabel Grossman / Independent
A History of National Guard Deployments in Heavily Black U.S. Cities. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
Trump Against History. By The New Republic
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Broken Promise of ‘Brown v. Board of Ed.,’ Sixty Years Later. By Katrina Vanden Heuvel / The Nation
Trump Is Putting Confederate Statues Back Up. Here’s Why They Must Fall. By Natasha Lennard / The Intercept
What if Dred Scott Had Been Decided Correctly? By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Trump Wants to Make the Confederacy Great Again. By Chris Lehmann / The Nation
Robert Smalls Gets Statue At South Carolina State Capitol. By Joe Jurado / Newsone
How Our History Became “Divisive.” By Stephen Kearse / Mother Jones
1893: Racial Crisis and White Supremacy. By Philip Jenkins / Patheos
Plans underway to put Robert E. Lee monument back on display. By Patrick Phillips / WCSC
Church that was ‘work space’ for Civil Rights Movement is nearly restored and awaits new designation. By Berndt Petersen / WSB-TV
ICE is radicalizing Americans the way the Fugitive Slave Act did before the Civil War. By Mary Harris / Slate
Sabrina Evans on Mary Church Terrell’s Situational Resistance. By Ashley Everson / AAIHS
‘Report Negativity’ Signs Threaten Black History at National Parks. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
New documentary honors trailblazing Black actress Juanita Moore’s overlooked legacy. By Jordan Owens / The Grio
How Robert Prevost Became the First American Pope. By Bellinda Luscombe / Time
Dylann Roof killed my mom and cousins. But I still oppose the death penalty. By Sharon Risher / RNS
The Civil War That Never Ended. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Why Black Folks Should Be Wary of Any Changes to 14th Amendment. By Jermaine Hall / Level
