Past Voices
Debate over teaching books by Black authors has roots in violent 1974 clash in West Virginia. By Sarah Posner / Wash Post
Yes, anti-lynching laws are mostly symbolic. That’s what makes them important. By Theodore R. Johnson / Wash Post
A 19th-Century Law Dismantled The KKK. Now It Could Bring Down A New Generation Of Extremists. By Lyz Lenz / HuffPost
Nearly 100 Confederate Monuments Were Toppled Last Year. What Happened to Them? By Melissa Lyttle / Mother Jones
A White mob dragged a Black man from a Maryland jail in 1887. Now a memorial will mark the lynching. By Michael E. Ruane / Wash Post
Claudette Colvin was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. Now she’s fighting to get her record expunged. By Devon M. Sayers / CNN
Black men in ‘Groveland Four’ case may get rape convictions, indictments dismissed. By Kiara Alfonseca / ABC News
A California Law School Reckons With the Shame of Native Massacres. By Thomas Fuller / NYT
