Past Voices
Ancient DNA Reveals Most Europeans Had Dark Skin Until Just 3,000 Years Ago. By Tibi Pulu / ZME Science
Broken Promises: Black Land and the New Fight For Reparations. By Mother Jones
60 years after Malcolm X’s killing, his message can’t be silenced or ignored. By Omar Suleiman / RNS
To these Black retirees, the federal civil service now under attack was a path to the middle class. By Gary Fields / AP
How Baylor Is Facing Its Slavery History. By Emily Belz / Christianity Today
Andrew Young on the current political moment and his life of service. By Geoff Bennett and Kaisha Young / PBS
Bill Introduced To Honor 200,000 Black Union Soldiers With Gold Medal. By Jeroslyn JoVonn / Black Enterprise
How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made. By Calvin Schermerhorn /AAIHS
Black Educators as Movement Leaders. By Noah Nelson / AAIHS
All The Ways Sandra Bland’s Legacy Lives On. By Bruce C.T. Wright / NewsOne
The Trump-Musk power grab has happened before — in Hungary. By Zack Beauchamp / Vox
The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white. By Deborah W. Parker / The Conversation
Activists are warning of a return to the Jim Crow era in America. But who or what was Jim Crow? By Clare Carbould / The Conversation
Attacking the Dream: 7 major race massacres in US history. By Michael Gryboski / Christian Post
“Great Migrations: A People on the Move” shows the leaps of faith that made modern America. By Melanie McFarland / Salon
Trump’s urgent push to rewrite American history. By Naftali Bendavid / Wash Post
The brief but shining life of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a poet who gave dignity to the Black experience. By Minnita Daniel-Cox / The Conversation
Overlooked No More: Annie Easley, Who Helped Take Spaceflight to New Heights. By Dylan Loeb McClain / NYT
