Past Voices
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
She was the first Black child to desegregate her school. This is what she learnt. By Mary Louise Kelly, Elena Burnett, Mallory Yu and Courtney Dorning / NPR
World’s Richest Negro Girl’ inspired media ridicule, fascination, alarm. By Sudney Trent / Wash Post
How Black washerwomen in the South became pioneers of American labor. By Kim Kelly / Wash Post
Fight over future of library that sparked civil rights ideas. By Travis Loller / AP and ABC News
Black Historians, Race, and the Historical Profession. By Hettie Williams / AAIHS
Panel says West Point, Naval Academy should scrub Confederate names. By Julia Mueller / The Hill
Counties with more slaves in 1860 have higher gun ownership rates today, study finds. By Matthew Rozsa / Salon
Race, Welfare Reform, and the Push for Family Values. By Trumaine Mitchell / AAIHS
A Tiny House in Manhattan Has a Link to the Underground Railroad. By Juhn Freeman Gill / NYT
The Supreme Court and Racial Inequality. By Alani Golanski / AAIHS
The Unsung Heroes of the Underground Railroad. By Trisha Posey / Christianity Today
Statue honors once-enslaved woman who won freedom in court. By AP and NPR
All-Black women crew operates American Airlines flight from Dallas in honor of trailblazer Bessie Coleman. By Emma Tucker / CNN
How Stokely Carmichael Helped Inspire the Creation of C-SPAN. By Eamon Whalen / Mother Jones
In Tulsa, the movement for reparations scores a historic victory. By Karen Attiah / Wash Post
When Did Racism Begin? By Vanita Seth / The Chronicle of Higher Ed
In 1896, Black intellectuals criticized The Post’s coverage of race. By John Kelly / Wash Post
Catholic Order Struggles to Raise $100 Million to Atone for Slave Labor. By Rachel L. Swan / NYT
American Democracy Was Never Designed to Be Democratic. By Louis Menand / The New Yorker
How Policing Black Women’s Bodies Built the Modern City. By Simon Balto / AAIHS
Lincoln’s midterms: The lessons of 1862, and how they may still apply. By Matthew Rozsa / Salon
When America Joined the Cult of the Confederacy. By Brent Staples / NYT
Colonial Williamsburg tells the story of early American settlers. But in 1956 it paved over Black history to make a parking lot. By Jacquelyne Germain / CNN
Ivy League university set to rebury skulls of Black people kept for centuries. By Ed Pilkington / The Guardian
