Past Voices
Olaudah Equiano’s Transnational Insights. By Taylor Prescott / AAIHS
Denmark Vesey’s Family Legacy. By Xavier Aubrey Spencer / AAIHS
This land is sacred to the Apache, and they are fighting to save it. By Dana Hedgpeth / Wash Post
82 schools renamed from Confederate generals to civil rights icons. Dozens now honor people of color. Alia Wong and Neena Hagen / USA Today
On War and U.S. Slavery: Enslaved Black Women’s Experiences. By Karen Cool Bell / AAIHS
‘The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family.’ By Drew Gilpin Faust / The Atlantic
Black Journalists and The Great Migration. By Tichaona Chinyelu / AAIHS
Sherman’s March Toward Reparations. A Little-Known Civil War Story Illuminates America’s Broken Promise to Black America By Bennett Parten / Zocalo
‘Black Wall Street’ Was Burned Down in 1921, but It’s Being Revived. By Peter Coy / NYT
Black Women at Columbia University before Brown v. Board. By Hettie Williams / AAIHS
This was the worst slaughter of Native Americans in U.S. history. Few remember it. By Dana Hedgpeth / Wash Post
Where Will This Political Violence Lead? Look to the 1850s. By Joshua Zeitz / Politico
The Culture and Intellectual Climate of the Great Migration. By Joseph R. Stewart / AAIHS
Was life better for us before integration? Check the stats. By Asward Walker / Defender
Private papers reveal the tactics that helped SCOTUS uphold the use of affirmative action. By Joan Biskupic / CNN
The Transatlantic Slave Trade. By Equal Justice Initiative
Exhumations to resume in a bid to identify Tulsa Race Massacre victims. By AP and NPR
Why I Keep Coming Back to Reconstruction. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
‘I Dream A World’ celebrates the timeless, urgent vision of Black Women. By Lonnae O’Neal / Andscape
A slaveholding senator, an 1879 wedding and a Black family’s mystery. By Julie Zauzmer Weil / Wash Post
What an Antislavery Politician Missed and Why It Still Matters. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Famed Brown v. Board ruling debated in Supreme Court admissions cases. By John Fritze / USA Today
The Legal Mind of Constance Baker Motley. By Tomiko Brown-Nagin / AAIHS
Nearly ‘Erased by History’: African Americans Search for Lost Graves. By Audra D. S. Burch / NYT
Will America’s midterms in 2022 replicate 1866? By Manisha Sinha / CNN
What Indigenous Peoples’ Day means to Native Americans. By Harmeet Kaur / CNN
