Past Voices
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
Mamie Clark’s Unsung Contribution to Brown v. Board. By Lacey P. Hunter / AAIHS
It’s one of the most radical and prophetic speeches in American history. And nobody knows about it. By John Blake / CNN
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
