Past Voices
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
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
