Past Voices
Service, patriotism and the promise of Black liberation. By E.J. Dionne Jr. / Wash Post
Jim Crow Killed Voting Rights for Generations. Now the GOP Is Repeating History. By Ari Berman / Mother Jones
Burned from the land: How 60 years of racial violence shaped America. By Channon Hodge, Breeanna Hare, Tami Luhby, Elias Goodstein, Priya Krishnakumar, Nadia Lancy, Toby Lyles, Amy Roberts and Clint Alwahab / CNN
The Bezos Of Black Wall Street. A century ago, O.W. Gurley built an empire of African American businesses in Tulsa. By Antoine Gara / Forbes
America’s monument to White victimhood. By Nicole Hemmer / CNN
Albert King Is Not Forgotten. By Alexa Mills / Wash Post
A Vision of Racial and Economic Justice. Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill / Dissent Magazine
How a Black man’s death in 1965 changed American history. By Javonte Anderson / USA Today
Removal of Confederate names could affect hundreds of sites. By Robert Burns / AP News
The survivors of the Tulsa massacre deserve recompense. Congress should help make it happen. By the Editorial Board / Wash Post
Tulsa race massacre survivors, advocates testify before House committee. By AP and PBS
Examining the American Medical Association’s racist history and its overdue reckoning. Yamiche Alcindor and Claire Mufson / PBS
From Charleston to Minneapolis, America grapples with symbols of slave-owning past. By Kimeko McCoy / The Undefeated
Mayor Apologizes On Behalf Of City For Deadly Shooting On Historically Black Campus. By Emily Wagster Pettus / HuffPost
Black Resistance from Augusta to BLM. By John Hayes and Nefertiti Robinson / AAIHS
The Victims of the Philadelphia MOVE Bombing Continue to Be Erased. By Heather Ann Thompson / The New Yorker
‘Foot soldiers’ of Birmingham to BLM: ‘Keep on keeping on.’ By Jay Reeves / AP and ABC News
You Must Work or Die: The Long History of “Worker Shortages.” By Jan Schwarz / The Intercept
The Fight to Preserve Greenwood. By Caleb Gayle / The Atlantic
Why Does the Myth of the Confederate Lost Cause Persist? By Clint Smith / The Atlantic
What slavery reparations from the federal government could look like. By P.R. Lockhart / NBC News
Maryland Governor Issues Blanket Pardon For Lynching Victims. By Dominique Mosbergen / HuffPost
National Geographic faced up to its racist past. Did it actually get more diverse or inclusive? By Anna North and Kainaz Amaria / Vox
The Stealth Sticker Campaign to Expose New York’s History of Slavery. By Julianne McShane / NYT
The Ridiculously Racist History of Menthol Cigarettes. By Kali Holloway / The Daily Beast
The Entwined History of Freedom and Racism. By Olúfémi O. Táíwò / The Nation
