Past Voices
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
How Vincent Chin is being remembered, 40 years after his death. By Tat Bellamy-Walker / NBC News
Alabama slave ship, Clotilda, receives renewed importance during Juneteenth. By Debbie Elliott and Marisa Penaloza / NPR
City honors man who fought to integrate U of Fla. law school, then gave up his fight so Black people could earn master’s degrees. By The Grio Staff
Organization Apologizes For Involvement In Tuskegee Syphilis Study. By Jay Reeves / HuffPost
Civil Rights Activists Fought for America’s Democracy. They Should Be Honored as Veterans. By David Dennis Jr. / NYT
The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America. By Linda Villarosa / NYT Magazine
Should We Judge Thomas Jefferson by His Ideals or His Actions? By Daniel N. Gullotta / Christianity Today
Searching for Anna Douglass in the Archives. By Daina Ramey Berry /AAIHS
A new quarter honors Native American leader and activist Wilma Mankiller. By Tekella Foster / NPR
California Details Racist Past In Slave Reparations Report. By Janie Har / HuffPost
At Buffalo Thunder ride, reflection on Black history and service. By Luz Lazo / Wash Post
One family’s photo album includes images of a vacation, a wedding anniversary and the lynching of a Black man in Texas. By Jeffrey L. Littlejohn / The Conversation
Freed slaves started first Memorial Day in the U.S. – New York Amsterdam News
Hubert Harrison, Giant of Harlem Radicalism. By Robert Greene II / The Nation
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland recalls 1963 sit-in protest. By Tori B. Powell / CBS News
The Consequences of USCT Soldiering. By Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. AAIHS
U.S. bases that honored Confederate leaders to receive new names. By Eleanor Watson / CBS News
Early Black Collegians and the Fight for Full Inclusion. By John Frederick Bell / AAIHS
‘You Can Feel the Spirits’: Historic Black Cemetery Rediscovered and Helps Tell the Story of a Georgia Town’s Racist Past. By Kavontae Smalls /Atlanta Black Star
How the Early Church Dealt with Racial and Cultural Division. By Rasool Berry / Christianity Today
Racists Once Terrorized This Georgia County. Diversity Made It Prosper. By Jonathan Weisman / NYT
Historic Enslaved Grave Sites in Louisiana Could Be Disrupted. By Seth Freed Wessler / Propublica
‘We’re still here’: past and present collide at a Native American boarding school. By Hillary Beaumont / The Guardian
For African Americans tired of U.S. hostility, Ghana is still calling. By Karen Attiah / Wash Post
