Past Voices
I’m a scholar of white supremacy who’s visiting all 113 places where Confederate statues were removed in recent years − here’s why Richmond gets it right. By David Cunnigham / The Conversation
Biden designates national monument at former Indian boarding school. By Toluse Olorunnipa and Cleve R. Wootson Jr. / Wash Post
What Reconstruction Still Has to Teach Us. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
Doris ‘Dorie’ Miller became the first Black American to be awarded the Navy Cross for his heroism at Pearl Harbor. By Todd Neikirk / War History Online
White and Black activists worked strategically in parallel in Detroit 50 years ago, fighting for civil rights. By Say Burgin / The Conversation
Biden, in Africa, decries history of slavery and urges partnership. By Abigail Hauslohner and Katharine Houreld / Wash Post
Their Palm Springs homes were destroyed decades ago. A new settlement attempts to make amends. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Fred Hampton Assassination Anniversary And Killer Chicago Cops. Editor at Newsone
Why Black Americans Searching for Their Roots Should Look to Angola. By John Eligon / NYT
Robert Dixon, Last Surviving Buffalo Soldier, Dies at 103. By Trip Gabriel / NYT
Tulsa’s First Black Mayor Says He Plans To Address The City’s Ugly History Head-On. By Phillip Jackson / HuffPost
How education in the US has been weaponised against Native Americans. By Madalyn J. Mann / The Conversation
The earliest known ‘country’ recording has been found. The singer? A Black man. By Geoff Edgers / Wash Post
How the first Pilgrims and the Puritans differed in their views on religion and respect for Native Americans. By Michael Carrafiello / The Conversation
That Time Mississippi Reinvented Slavery With Its ‘Black Codes.’ By Erik Loomis / Wonkette
America Has Done Mass Deportation Before. By Eric Foner / The Nation
Scholars Thought White Women Were Passive Enslavers. They Were Wrong. By Rachel L. Swarns / NYT
A decade after Marion Barry’s death, many show they haven’t forgotten him. By Keith L. Alexander and Emma Uber / Wash Post
On Blood-Soaked Ground, a ‘Prayer for the Future’ of a Divided Land. By Dan Barry / NYT
Malcolm X Suggests Cure To Racism In Newly-Discovered Handwritten Letter. By Kimberly Richards / HuffPost
Hundreds of 19th-century skulls collected in the name of medical science tell a story of who mattered and who didn’t. By Pamela L. Geller / The Conversation
Malcolm X’s family files $100 million wrongful death lawsuit, claims cover-up of his murder. By Tesfaye Negussie / ABC News
Harriet Tubman posthumously named a general in Veterans Day ceremony. By AP and NPR
Memorial service honors first Tulsa Race Massacre victim identified from mass graves. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
How pioneering Black liberals battled Thomas Jefferson’s “Dark Age.” By Paul Rosenberg / Salon
When a Multi-Racial Democracy Was Violently Overthrown in America. By Ed. Rampell / The Progressive
