Past Voices
Daughter of assassinated civil rights leader sees painful echoes of political violence in America. By AP and The Grio
The ongoing fight to replace racist monuments in the US: ‘requires a lot of perseverance.’ By Briana Ellis-Gibbs / The Guardian
We’re Raising a Generation of Black Kids Who Don’t Understand Blackness. Here’s How it Happened. By Lawrence Ware / The Root
Guess Who Else Sent Troops to Quell Protests in American Streets. By Stacy Schiff / NYT
My Grandfather’s Greatest Legacy. By Justin Giboney / Christianity Today
Trump is following in the footsteps of the worst traitor in US history. By Thom Hartman / MSN
A former plantation becomes a space for healing, art and reparative history. By Brianna Scott / NPR
Emmett Till national monument at risk of removal due to Trump’s anti-DEI stand. By Kati Weis / CBS News
William Parker Recalls How He Escaped Slavery. By William Parker / The Atlantic
Why George Washington Integrated the Army. By Andrew Lawler / The Bulwark
Army restores the names of seven bases that lost their Confederate-linked names under Biden. AP and The Grio
America had open borders until 1924. Racism and corporate greed changed that. By Daniel Mendiola / The Guardian
The use of federal troops to quell Los Angles protests recalls militarized law enforcement during the Civil Rights Movement. By Justin Randolph / The Conversation
Schomburg Center centennial highlights large catalog of Black history. By Jaylen Green / AP
The Freedom Rides Museum Still Exists — For Now. By Margaret Renkl / NYT
You Know Of The Tuskegee Airmen, But You Don’t Know What ‘The Harlem ‘Hellfighters’ Did to Win The War. By Lawrence Ware / The Root
Overlooked No More: Hong Yen Chang, Lawyer Who Challenged a Racist System. By Julie Ho / NYT
Mass graves of slaughtered Black Civil War soldiers discovered in Kentucky. By Debadrita Sur / Daily Express
Why The History Of Segregated Facilities Matters In The Trump Era. By Shannon Dawson / Newsone
$105 Million Reparations Package for Tulsa Race Massacre Unveiled by Mayor. By Audra D. S. Burch and Breena Kerr / NYT
George Floyd’s Journey from Houston to Minneapolis Tells an Important Story. By Sarah Lahm / The Progressive
Skulls of 19 Black Americans Return to New Orleans After 150 Years in Germany. By Aishvarya Kavi / NYT
Woman Wins Legal Battle With Harvard Over Ancestor’s Slave Photos. By Tom Sanders / The Daily Beast
We Are Not Being Asked to Run Into Cannon Fire. We Just Need to Speak Up. By Drew Gilpin Faust / NYT
Charles B. Rangel, Longtime Harlem Congressman, Dies at 94. By Sam Roberts / NYT
NAACP Honors 3 Mississippi Civil Rights Trailblazers: ‘These Folks Sacrificed Everything.’ By Jeroslyn JoVonn / Black Enterprise
The Burning of Nottoway Plantation. By Maurice Carlos Ruffin / Time
What Would Malcolm X Say About America In 2025? By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
These 7 executive actions show how Trump wants to reshape American history. By Bill Chappell / NPR
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Pardoning the Scottsboro Boys, Eighty Years Too Late. By Katrina Vanden Heuvel / The Nation
