Past Voices
What We Still Don’t Know About Emmett Till’s Murder. By Wright Thompson / The Atlantic
America’s Imperfect Founding. By George Thomas / the Bulwark
Bust of Confederate general moved from Tennessee Capitol. By ABC News
Race Inquiry Digest (Jul 29) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured Bob Moses and the Fighting Spirit of Black Intellectual History. By Robert Greene II / AAIHS
National Trust for Historic Preservation sends grants to 40 African American landmarks. By Cayla Sweazie / The Undefeated
Lost Lives, Lost Culture: The Forgotten History of Indigenous Boarding Schools. By Rukmini Callimachi / NYT
Black Women, the Civil War, and United States Colored Troops. By Holly A. Pinheiro jr. / AAIHS
Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones on Ida B. Wells’ impact and legacy. By CBS News
John Lewis: Navy christens ship, legacy of ‘good trouble’ remembered. Grace Hauck / USA Today
Confederate monument removed from city hall in Louisiana. By AP and ABC News
The Endless Robbing of Native American Graves. By Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson / Wash Post
Sec. Haaland on healing from the indoctrination, dehumanization at Indian boarding schools. By Judy Woodruff / PBS
Ada Wright, the Scottsboro Defense Campaign, and the Popular Front. By Ashley Everson / AAIHS
How a Harlem Skyrise Got Hijacked—and Forgotten. By Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts / The Nation
Black female WWII unit hoping to get congressional honor. By Michael Casey / AP and ABC News
Thaddeus Stevens and the Original Dreamers. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Charlottesville Removes Robert E. Lee Statue That Sparked A Deadly Rally. By Ben Paviour / NPR
Haiti’s fate is intertwined with the U.S. By Ishan Tharoor / Wash Post
Meet The Medical Pioneer Who Founded America’s First Black-Owned Hospital. By Leah Rosenbaum / Forbes
Why reparations are always about more than money. By Kerry Whigham / The Conversation
Ida B. Wells Monument Unveiled in Chicago. By Zack Linly / The Root
Frederick Douglass’s 4th of July speech still burns with his spirit. By Javonte Anderson / USA Today
On July 4, recognize the Black and Indigenous soldiers who helped win the Revolutionary War. By Bonnie Watson Coleman / Wash Post
A Maryland attic hid a priceless trove of Black history. Historians and activists saved it from auction. By Michael E. Ruane / Wash Post
Case files from 1964 “Mississippi Burning” murders made public. CBS News
Pride means knowing LGBTQ history — including that of Indigenous Two-Spirit people. By Simon Moya-Smith / NBC News
