Past Voices
Descendants Trace Histories Linked by Slavery. By Amanda Holpuch / NYT
Celebrating Harriet Tubman’s 200th birthday in Auburn, N.Y. By Andrea Sachs / Wash Post
Bill would honor Henrietta Lacks with posthumous Congressional Gold Medal. By McKenna Oxenden / Wash Post
Black Mayors, Black Politics, and the Gary Convention. By Brandon Stokes / AAIHS
Northern Black People’s Freedom Struggle in the Nineteenth Century. By Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. / AAIHS
Ted Cruz told Ketanji Brown Jackson that Bushrod Washington was not ‘controversial.’ He was an enslaver. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
The Artists Turning Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Into a Creative Destination. By Adam Bradley / NYT
Why the School Wars Still Rage. By Jill Lepore / The New Yorker
Plantations could be used to teach about US slavery if stories are told truthfully. By Amy Potter and Derek H. Alderman / The Conversation
Black man’s death in Indiana ruled a lynching nearly 100 years later. By David K. Li. / NBC News
The painful, cutting and brilliant letters Black people wrote to their former enslavers. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
Black History Month is over. Thank goodness. By Cole Arthur Riley / Wash Post
The African American Origins of Modern Asylum. By Sean Gallagher / AAIHS
He Joined the Attica Prison Uprising. He Hopes a New Documentary Can Set the Record Straight. By Eamon Whalen / Mother Jones
Panicked White People Tried To Ban Books In The ’80s, Too — With Jerry Falwell Leading The Way. By Fred L. Pincus / TPM
First Black Univ. of Alabama student dies days after building named for her. By AP and NPR
Mary McLeod Bethune, civil rights pioneer, advised presidents on ‘the problems of my people.’ By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
My Family Lost Our Farm During Japanese Incarceration. I Went Searching for What Remains. By Ruth Chizuko Murai / Mother Jones
Civil rights leaders of 1961 about resisting injustice today. By Mike Thompson / USA Today
Let’s Talk About the Taking of Black Land. By Eli Mystal / The Nation
The historical truth about women burned at the stake in America? Most were Black. By Kali Nicole Gross / Wash Post
In 1871, Congress Crafted a Law to Break the Klan. Today, It’s Targeting Trump. By Pema Levy / Mother Jones
Many African American last names hold weight of Black history. By Julia Craven / NBC News
The Afro Latino who redefined how Black history is remembered. By Nicole Acevedo / NBC News
Louisiana Civil Rights Trail marks a long road to equality. By Andrea Sachs / Wash Post
State v. Mann: Lydia’s Journey. By Sally Greene / AAIHS
