Past Voices
Remarkable photos of Black America 100 years ago. By Leslie Gornstein / CBS News
This Black woman judge laid the groundwork for those who would follow. By Brandon Tensley / CNN
Remains of massacred ancestors returned to Wiyot Tribe. By Brian Melley / AP and ABC News
The 13th Amendment’s Fatal Flaw Created Modern-Day Convict Slavery. By Kwasi Konadu And Clifford C. Campbell / The Conversation
Why ‘States’ Rights’ Are Having A Republican Revival. By Ronald Browstein / CNN
Georgia Man Lynched By Mob Of At Least 200 Men Remembered 110 Years Later As Community Acknowledges Racist Past. By Kavontae Smalls / Atlanta Black Star
The Black Radical Tradition In *The Dawn Of Everything.” By Kevin Suemnicht / AAIHS
The Past And Future Of Native California. By Julian Brave NoiseCat / The Nation
Benjamin Mays (1895–1984) The Formative Years, Early Religious Scholarship, The Howard Years, Morehouse College, The Morehouse Mentor. Education State University
For Black Voters, a Flashback to the 1890s. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
In New Orleans, the Ghosts of Slavery Hide in Plain Sight. By Imani Perry / NYT
America’s Ugliest Confederate Statue Is Gone. Racism Isn’t. By Margaret Renkl / NYT
Highways, High-Rises And Food Deserts. By E. James West / AAIHS
Ethical US consumers struggled to pressure the sugar industry to abandon slavery with less success than their British counterparts. By Calvin Schermerhorn / The Conversation
Black Remembrance and Racial Violence in New Orleans. By Sowande’ M. Mustakeem / AAIHS
MLK And Lillian Smith. By Matthew Teutsch / AAIHS
César Chávez’s march that changed it all is the topic of a new graphic novel. By Arturo Conde / NBC News
Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s History Lessons. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
U.S.’ oldest surviving WWII veteran, Lawrence Brooks, has died at the age of 112. By Walter Einenkel / Daily Kos
‘If not us, then who?’: inside the landmark push for reparations for Black Californians. By Vivian Ho / The Guardian
Louisiana Gov. To Posthumously Pardon Homer Plessy, Of ‘Separate But Equal’ Ruling. By Janet McConnaughey / HuffPost
‘Physically Erased’: Archaeologists Rediscover Fourth Forgotten Black Cemetery Near Site of Florida Office Building. By Niara Savage / Atlanta Black Star
The battle over January 6 started in 1865. By Peniel E. Joseph / CNN
Former boarding school for Indigenous children owning up to its past. By Peter Smith / NCR
Civil rights leaders of 1961 about resisting injustice today. By Mike Thompson / USA Today
Wrongfully Accused: The Exoneration of Black People. By Noah A. McGee / The Root
