Past Voices
The last known slave ship and the community founded by its survivors. By Anderson Cooper / CBS News
My grandparents were stolen from their families as children. We must learn about this history. By Deb Haaland / Wash Post
Descendants of Robert E. Lee and enslaved people unite for change. By CBS News
Understanding the Horror of Slavery Is Impossible. But a Simple Cotton Sack Can Bring Us Closer. By Rebecca Onion / Slate
How Interracial Marriage Became Legal In The U.S. By NPR
How Rosenwald schools transformed African-American education in the South. By Erica Davies / CBS News
The Unwritten History of Black Performance. By Kelton Ellis / The Nation
Tenement Museum Makes Room for Black History. By Jennifer Schuessler / NYT
Not far from Tulsa, a quieter but consequential correction of the historical record. By Charles Lane / Wash Post
My family went from being enslaved to serving in the White House. You can’t erase our history. By John B. King Jr. / Wash Post
The Importance of Teaching Dred Scott. By Jeannie Suk Gersen / The New Yorker
Charlottesville city council votes to remove Confederate statues that were the focus of violent 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ rally. By Gregory S. Schneider / Wash Post
In Texas, a struggle to memorialize a brutal lynching as resistance grows to teaching historical racism. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed African Americans. Dave Ross / History
Greenwood Rising Links Tulsa’s Tragic History to Today’s Struggles. By Holland Cotter / NYT
Native American tribe in Maine buys back island taken 160 years ago. By Alice Hutton / The Guardian
The Black Hero Behind One of the Greatest Supreme Court Justices. By Peter S. Canellos / Politico
A Florida school board is renaming middle and high schools honoring Confederate leaders. By Alaa Elassar / CNN
Before Tulsa, this Georgia county forced out nearly all Black residents. By Ryann Young / CNN
The Reconstruction Origins of Black Wall Street. By Alexander E. Stern / AAIHS
Shot 55 years ago while marching against racism, James Meredith reminds us that powerful movements can include those with very different ideas. By Aram Goudsouzian / The Conversation
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
