Past Voices
New York Cemetery for Enslaved People Reclaimed. By Shannon McDonagh / Newsweek
Alabama’s First Official Black Town Celebrates 125th Founder’s Day. By Jeroslyn JoVonn / Black Enterprise
Black people were once expelled from Forsyth County, Georgia. Can a scholarship make amends? By Marquise Francis / NBC News
Abandoned beach, once segregated, revitalized by community activists. By Lakeia Brown / ABC News
The Rights of American Slaves. By Jerusalem Demsas / The Atlantic
ournalist withheld information about Emmett Till’s murder, documents show. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
How Raleigh once demolished a Black neighborhood and displaced more than 1,000 people. By John Shaffer / News Observer and Yahoo News
Why people stay after local economies collapse − a story of home among the ghosts of shuttered steel mills. By Amanda McMillan Lequieu / The Conversation
Nat Turner’s Insurrection. By Thomas Wentworth Higginson / The Atlantic (August 1861 Issue)
How a racist letter from 1858 relates to current-day politics. By Charles B. Dew / Tampa Bay Times
Confederate statues come down as Black history rises across the U.S. By Krystal Nurse / USA Today
A sequel of injustice 60 years in the making. By Rann Miller / Salon
Inside the KKK plot to kill Barack Obama — and the FBI informant who stopped it. By john Kennedy / NY Post
“Sum of all parts”: Kamala Harris nomination is the culmination of “fierce” Black women leaders. By Tatyana Tandanpolie / Salon
Tulsa Race Massacre victims found with gunshot wounds. By Thao Nguyen / USA Today
60 Years Ago, Courage Confronted Racism at the Democratic Convention. By Margaret McMullian / The Bulwark
Meet Richard Theodore Greener, Harvard’s first Black graduate who was accepted into the school as an “experiment.” By Prosper Kuzo / Face2Face
Healing a Dark Past: The Long Road to Reopening Hospitals in the Rural South. By Aallyah Wright / Capital One
The Civil-Rights Era’s Great Unanswered Question. By Julian E. Zelizer / The Atlantic
Bronze statue of John Lewis replaces more than 100-year-old Confederate monument. By Ron Harris / ABC News
How the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument Can Help Us Reckon With Racial Trauma. By Jewel Wicker / Capital One
An NC slave’s forgotten story reappears after a century, speaking truth to power. By John Shaffer / The Charlotte Observer
Congress didn’t recognize a race riot. Biden will make the site a monument. By Maxine Joselow / Wash Post
Why Democrats Should Sing the Union’s Civil War Anthems. By Parker Richards / NYT
Black hospitals vanished in the U.S. decades ago. Some communities have paid. By Lauren Sausser / NPR
Ferguson 10 Years Later: How Protests Gave Way to Politics and Policy. By Audra D. S. Burch / NYT
