Past Voices
Excavation of graves begins at site of colonial Black church. By Ben Finley / Religion News
Emmett Till’s Chicago home will get historic preservation funds. By AP and NPR
When Tribal Nations Expel Their Black Members. By Philip Deloria / New Yorker
Emmett Till’s family rebuts claims in accuser’s recently leaked memoir. By Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News
‘Pivotal Moment’: Statue of Mary McLeod Bethune Is the First Black Figure In U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall State Collection. By Nyamekye Daniel / Atlanta Black Star
US Military Bases Honoring Confederate Figures Slated to Get New Names. By Dora Mekouar / VOA News
‘Giving Students the History They Need.’ By Eleanor J. Bader / The Progressive
A small Wisconsin town is honored as the state’s first Black-founded community. By Diane Bezucha / NPR
Schomburg Center Volunteer Is One of the Last Surviving ‘Black Angels’. By Lisa Herndon / NYPL
Native American elders recall abuse at US government boarding schools. AP and The Guardian
What the History of Criminalizing Black Mothers Tells Us About the Post-Roe Legal Landscape. By Dahlia Lithwick / Slate
July Fourth parade led to a massacre of Black people in Hamburg, S.C. By Ronald G. Shafer / Wash Post
Black Marines who served on racially segregated Montford Point are being honored. By Jay Price / NPR
Clifford Alexander Jr., first Black secretary of Army, dies at 88. By Alexa Mills / Wash Post
Ed Dwight was in line to be the first Black astronaut. History had other ideas. By Mycah Hazel / NPR
Emmett Till’s family wants woman arrested after warrant unearthed 67 years later. By AP and NBC News
Once Again The Supreme Court Breaks America’s Promise To Tribes. By Chuck Hoskin Jr / HuffPost
Remembering A Renaissance Man. Jamal Eric Watson / Diverse Issues In Higher Education
Grain Elevator Project Could Destroy African American Historical Sites, Preservation Agency Says. By Seth Freed Wessler / Propublica
James Farmer and the Roots of a Black Activist-Intellectual. By M. Keith Claybrook Jr. / AAIHS
The case against the Supreme Court of the United States. By Ian Millhiser / Vox
Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too. By Kris Manjapra / The Conversation
The Spanish Slave Ship Carlotta “Denounced” By a Shark (1894). By Aderivaldo Ramos de Santana / AAIHS
Boston Apologizes For Slavery In City’s Past. By Ben Bianchet / HuffPost
Black Genealogy After Alex Haley’s Roots. By Menika Dirkson / AAIHS
Freedom riders’ 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina. By Tom Foreman Jr / ABC News
