Past Voices
Black economic boycotts of the civil rights era still offer lessons on how to achieve a just society. By Kevin A. Young / The Conversation
‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’: The History of Frederick Douglass’ Searing Independence Day Oration. By Olivia B. Waxman / Time
Descendants Push for Monument at Tulsa Race Massacre Site. By Brooke Leigh Howard / Daily Beast
A Visual History of the Harlem Renaissance. By The New York Times
Looking forward and back as the Civil Rights Act turns 60. By Deborah Barfield Berry / USA Today
How Black Americans have been cheated out of land ownership – and the movement to reverse this . By Andrew Lawrence / The Guardian
THE PACIFIC: The Warriors That HBO Forgot – Black Soldiers In the Pacific. By Ronald David Jackson / Internet Archive
Once Upon A Time, Enslaved Africans Were An Insurance Commodity. By Stacey Patton / Black Enterprise
These Badges Shed New Light on the Enslaved Workers Who Built Charleston. By Sarah Kuta / Smithsonian Magazine
The site of the first free Black town in the U.S. is being rebuilt near St. Augustine. By C. Isaiah Smalls II / Miami Herald
Three Evangelical ‘Founding Fathers’ and Their Complicated Relationships to Slavery. By Robert Caldwell III / CT
How 99 Black Americans Gained—Then Lost—Land On An Idyllic Georgia Island. By Ruth Murai / Mother Jones
Paying reparations for slavery is possible – based on a study of federal compensation to farmers, fishermen, coal miners, radiation victims and 70 other groups. By Linda J. Bilmes and Cornell William Brooks / The Conversation
In 1964, the Klan killed three young activists and shocked the nation. By Susan Levine / Wash Post
The legacy of a last name: A new memorial park honors the last names of the formerly enslaved. By Victor Blackwell and Devon M. Sayers / CNN
What Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist: ‘Agitate, agitate, agitate.’ By Christine Kinealy / The Conversation
Mexico was a destination for escaped slaves — one woman risked everything to get them there. By Priscilla Thompson / NBC News
The American Election That Set the Stage for Trump. By Isaac Chotiner / The New Yorker
On Juneteenth, Freedom Came With Strings Attached. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
How Harriet Tubman relied on nature to bring the enslaved to freedom. By Tiya Miles / Wash Post
Almost 9 In 10 House Republicans Voted To Put A Confederate Memorial Back At Arlington National Cemetery. By Jonathan Nicholson / HuffPost
40 Acres and a Lie. A Collaboration between Mother Jones and Reveal
Only 1.8% of US doctors were Black in 1906 – and the legacy of inequality in medical education has not yet been erased. By Benjamin Chrisinger / The Conversation ( Black students at Meharry Medical College in 1915)
Supreme Court’s Civil War callback: Justice is denied with historic Trump delay. By Jeffrey Abramson and Dennis Aftergut / Salon
What If Reconstruction Didn’t End Till 1920? By Eric Herschthal / The New Republic
Tributes Pour In After Civil Rights Icon James Lawson Dies At 95. Bruce C.T. Wright / Newsone
