Past Voices
How Will History Remember Jan. 6? By Lydia Polgreen / NYT
Henrietta Lacks statue to replace Robert E Lee monument in Virginia. By Ramon Antonio Vargas / The Guardian
The Black Seminoles: How Fugitive Slaves Escaped To Mexico Before The Civil War. By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
Was the Civil War Inevitable? By David W. Blight / NYT
Congress Set to Replace Dred Scott Author’s Statue With Thurgood Marshall. By Luke Broadwater / NYT
How an abolitionist painting set in D.C. became proslavery propaganda. By Kristina Gaddy / Wash Post
How Authorities Erased a Historic Black Cemetery in Virginia. By Seth Freed Wessler / Propublica
Virginia Capital Removes Its Final Confederate Monument. By AP and HuffPost
Julia W. Garnet’s Civil War Activism. By Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. / AAIHS
Emmett Till: National park honor could save legacy, provide healing. By Marc Ramirez / USA Today
John Lewis stamp: Civil rights hero to be honored next year. By Shawna Mizelle / CNN
The Only People They Hit Were Black’: When a Race Riot Roiled New York. By Andrew Meier / NYT
Tulsa Race Massacre Vs. Elaine Massacre: How 2 Southern Cities Face Their Past. By Scott Neuman / NPR
How The Right Turned “Freedom” Into A Dog Whistle. By Eric Herschthal / TNR
Take A Look Back At Legislation Geared Towar Interracial And Same Sex Marriages. By Ayana Archie / NPR
Black Panthers And LAPD. By M. Keith Claybrook Jr. / AAIHS
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s pending promotion sheds new light on his overlooked fight for equal rights after the Civil War. By Anne Marshall / The Conversation
Should schools late to desegregate offer reparations? By Petula Dyorak / Wash Post
California Panel Sizes Up Reparations for Black Citizens. By Kurtis Lee / NYT
Their wealth was built on slavery. Now a new fortune lies underground. By Julie Zauzmer Weil / Wash Post
The Supreme Court’s Obsession with Whitewashed History. By Rann Miller / The Progressive Magazine
Florida city reckoning with its past as paved over Black cemeteries uncovered. By Scott Pelly / CBS News
New clinic planned where enslaved women were tortured in medical experiments. By Sydney Page / Wash Post
What does healing look like to survivors of the US Indian boarding school system? By Emily McFarlan Miller / RNS
The Many Complex Layers of the Monument to Crazy Horse. By Ross Douthat / NYT
Only Three Black Governors Have Ever Been Elected In US History. By Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill
