Past Voices
Fannie Lou Hamer’s Message to Contemporary America. By Keisha N. Blain / AAIHS
How Black troops lost out in bid to sever Army post’s Confederate ties. By Alex Horton / Wash Post
Did the civil rights movement use military tactics to topple Jim Crow? By Kevin Boyle / Wash Post
How Supreme Court Diversity Has Shaped American Life. By Amber Phillips / Wash Post
Richard Wright’s Legacy of Exposing Racial Violence Honored on Anniversary of Elaine Massacre in Arkansas. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Can Liberal Evanston, Illinois, Atone for Its Racist Past? By Kari Lydersen / The New Republic
Native Americans’ decades long struggle for control over sacred lands is making progress. By Rosalyn R. Lapier / The Conversation
The CIA honors Underground Railroad hero Harriet Tubman as model spy with new statue. By Dan De Luce / NBC News
My great-grandparents died in the Holocaust and were almost forgotten. By Zoe Zolbrod / Salon
The forgotten history of what California stole from Black families. by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil / The Guardian
The Missing Black Women in Denmark Vesey’s Conspiracy. By Karen Cook Bell / AAIHS
Jim Crow’s Forgotten History of Homicides. By Jennifer Szalai / NYT
Reckoning with the Slave Ship Clotilda. By Vera Caruthers / The New Yorker
Texas officials approve Texas 1836 Project to counter the 1619 Project. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
Alabama Sidesteps Compensation For Survivor Of ’63 KKK Blast. By Jay Reeves / HuffPost
More DNA sought from remains of possible Tulsa race massacre victims. CBS News
Conference on slave rebellions offers in-depth way to teach history some don’t want in schools. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Navy should rename warship that honors Confederate victory, commission recommends. By Lara Seligman / Politico
Philadelphia man completes over 400-mile walk along the Underground Railroad in honor of Harriet Tubman. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
Black Historians Know There’s No Such Thing As Objective History. By Keisha N. Blain / New Republic
New Jersey Hopes To ‘Elevate The Stories Of Black New Jerseyans’ With The Black Heritage Trail. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
U.S. Changes Names Of Places With Racist Term For Native Women. By Mead Gruver / HufPost
FBI File Shows Bureau Kept Tabs On Aretha Franklin’s Activism, A Common Focus During The Civil Rights Era. By Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN
Esther Cooper Jackson, Early Activist For Civil Rights, Dies At 105. By Emily Langer / Wash Post
Historian of Radical Right: Biden Is Correct, Trump Poses Existential Threat to Future of Democracy. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Richmond’s statues fell. Now these sisters aim to lift up Black history. By Gregory S. Schneider / Wash Post
