Past Voices
The Philadelphia Inquirer set out to become an ‘anti-racist’ newspaper. That meant taking a tough look at its history. By Margaret Sullivan / Wash Post
The Zora Neale Hurston We Don’t Talk About By Lauren Michele Jackson / The New Yorker
How Black families, torn apart during slavery, worked to find one another again. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
‘What Took Us So Long?’: Black Caucus Members Propose Awarding 200,000 Black Civil War Vets Congressional Gold Medal. By Nicole Duncan-Smith / Atlanta Black Star
How 18th-century Quakers led a boycott of sugar to protest against slavery. By Julie L. Holcomb / RNS
Paul Robeson–The Revolutionary. By Tony Pecinovsky / AAIHS
The True Legacy of Lynching Lies in How We Remember the Victims. By Clint Smith / The Atlantic
Did You Study the Slave Trade in School or Were You Out That Day. By A.E. Rooks / The Daily Beast
Black History Month founder showed how schools should teach about race. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
In Maryland, a segregated school is one of many in the country to be preserved. By Joseph Williams / Wash Post
First Black University of Alabama student to share a building name with a Klan Leader. By AP and NPR
How Trayvon Martin’s life and death inspired a generation to fight for justice. By Giselle Rhoden and Kaanita Iyer / CNN
Atlanta’s unexpected civil rights museum: Its airport. By Larry Bleiberg / Wash Post
The Racial Politics of Demobilizing USCT Regiments. By Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr / AAIHS
The story behind Black History Month — and why it’s celebrated in February. By Jonathan Franklin / NPR
Remembering Harry T. Moore, a forgotten fighter for civil rights. By Greg Allen / NPR
A&T Four is more than a monument, it’s a moment that changed the world. By Alexis Davis / The Undefeated
16 queer Black trailblazers who made history. By Gwen Aviles, Ariel Jao and Brooke Sopelsa / NBC News
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, lessons from three popes’ visits to Auschwitz. By Yehiel E. Poupko / NCR
Why Students Need to Learn about Reconstruction. By Ryann Miller / The Progressive
In the Black South, You’re Always Considered. By Imani Perry / The Atlantic
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
