Past Voices
How the Government Helped White Americans Steal Black Farmland. By Dania Francis, Darrick Hamilton, Thomas Mitchell, Nathan Rosenberg, Bryce Wilson Stucki / The New Republic
When the Nevada Supreme Court Tackled Racial Bias. By Randolph M. Fiedler & Jocelyn S. Murphy /AAIHS
The Day the Civil-Rights Movement Changed. By David Dennis / The Atlantic
A New Orleans community center rises from its ugly history as a segregated school. By Connie L. Schaffer, Martha Graham Victor and Meg White / The Conversation
‘Fear and Confusion’: A Tale of Internment. By Jake Whitney / The Progressive Magazine
Here is a hard historical truth: Slavery powerfully shaped Harvard. By Lawrence S. Bacow and Tomiko Brown-Nagin. Wash Post
Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues. By Kate Clifford Larson / The Conversation
Slavery reckoning requires confronting sexual exploitation of Black women. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post
How to Tell the History of the Democrats. By Timothy Shenk / Dissent Magazine
The Rodney King effect: 30 years after riots, how far has LA come? By Francine Kiefer / CSM
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Aesthetics of Emancipation. By Clay Martin / AAIHS
Grant helps spread forgotten history of racial violence against Mexican Americans. By Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News
Legacy of Jim Crow still affects funding for public schools. By Derek W. Black and Axton Crolley / The Conversation
The Black “New South” in Intellectual History. By Robert Greene II / AAIHS
For a Black Man Hired to Undo a Confederate Legacy, It Has Not Been Easy. By Matt Stevens / NYT
‘Buried’ Latino history: Colorado sculpture honors family’s fight for school equity. By Raul A. Reyes / NBC News
Jim Limber and the myth of the Confederate president’s adopted Black son. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
Ida B. Wells pushed 7 presidents to pass anti-lynching legislation. Now it’s finally law. By Julianne McShane / NBC News
How the Nation’s Oldest Black-Owned Business Survived 141 Years. By Finurah Contributor/Atlanta Black Star
Remembering Ronald (X) Stokes and the Politics of Black Solidarity. By M. Keith Claybrook, Jr / AAIHS
A slaveholding president’s estate faces a modern racial controversy. By The Editorial Board / Wash Post
Ancestral Land In Virginia Returned To Rappahannock Tribe. By Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost
A historic all-Black town wants reparations to rebuild as a ‘safe haven.’ By Emmanuel Felton / Wash Post
Racism as Theory: A Historiography of White Supremacy Ideology. By Bala James Baptiste / AAIHS
The “Radical” King and a Usable Past. By Robert Greene II / AAIHS
‘Go, Mississippi’: State could ditch song with racist roots. By Emily Wagster Pettus / ABC News
