Past Voices
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
He was killed on the courthouse steps. Now, a Virginia county honors its first Black elected leader. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
Remove a Confederate Statue? A Tennessee City Did This Instead. By Jamie McGee / NYT
A Black museum asks to melt Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue to create new art. By Becky Sullivan / NPR
L.A. groups commemorate 1871 massacre that killed 10% of city’s Chinese community. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
Why did the U.S. name army bases after Civil War enemies? By Nicholas Goldberg / LA Times
Missouri city honors Black doctor whose land was taken decades ago through eminent domain. By Gabrielle Hays, Talesha Reynolds, and Ryan Connelly Holmes / PBS
History is made as reparations start to flow in Evanston, Illinois. By Jesse Washington / The Undefeated
Black History in Atlanta: Collier Heights neighborhood.By Jasmina Alston / CBS News
WHO honors Henrietta Lacks, woman whose cells served science. By Jamey Keaten / AP and ABC News
Bryan Stevenson, Legacy Museum founder, on American enslavement and modern-day incarceration. By Jamil Smith / Vox
Monument honoring indigenous women to replace Columbus statue in Mexico City. By AP and NPR
Mary McLeod Bethune statue to replace Confederate general in Capitol. By Eileen Zaffiro-Kean / USA Today
Black Women, Self-Making, and Liberty. By Ashley Everson / AAIHS
Timuel Black Jr., historian and civil rights activist, dies at 102. By Grace Hauck and Javonte Anderson / USA Today
One of the nation’s oldest Black churches unearthed in Virginia. By Ben Finley / USA Today
Lawrence Reddick and the Communal Acts of Black History. By Stephen G. Hall / AAIHS
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Biden becomes first president to mark day.
The brutal trade in enslaved people within the US has been largely whitewashed out of history. By Joshua D. Rothman / The Conversation
Black Student Activism and Durham’s Campus Movement. By Brandon K. Winford / AAIHS
The myths about slavery that still hold America captive. By John Blake / CNN
After California moves to return Bruce’s Beach to Black family, a push to recover other seized land. By Alicia Victoria Lozano and Lindsey Davis / NBC News
Journalists bungled coverage of the Attica uprising. 50 years later, the consequences remain. By Erik Wemple / Wash Post
When Black History Is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak for the Dead? By Jill Lepore / The New Yorker
