Past Voices
Presidents have a long history of condescension, indifference and outright racism towards Black Americans. By Stephen A. Jones and Eric Freedman / The Conversation
What the 19th Amendment Meant for Black Women. By Martha S. Jones / Politico
‘Emmett Till Is Anne Frank To Black America.’ By Brianne Garrett / Forbes
At Arlington House, a push to remove Robert E. Lee’s name from the home he once occupied. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
Amid Debates About Memorials, Advocates Push To Remember Atlanta’s Forced Laborers. By Molly Samuel / NPR
The Black Freedom Struggle of the North. By Josua Clark Davis / AAIHS
What MLK and Malcolm X would do today. By Sean Illing / Vox
Philadelphia’s deadly MOVE bombing: Why we can’t settle for apologies now. By Mike Africa Jr. / Salon
The Untold Story of the Black Marines Charged With Mutiny at Sea. By John Ismay / NYT
Clemson historians searched for unmarked graves. They found dozens for enslaved people owned by a U.S. vice president. By Jaclyn Peiser / Wash Post
Shirley Chisholm’s historic presidential run helped lead to this moment. By Li Zhou / Vox
The World of Slavery, Kidnapping, and the Slave Trade. By Derek Litvak / AAIHS
Julian Bond’s Life in Protest and Politics. By Robert Greene II / The Nation
The 1619 Project and the ‘Anti-Lincoln Tradition.’ By E. James West / AAIHS
Lynchings are part of Georgia’s history — and the state’s present. By Sandy Hodson / USA Today
The Battle Between W.E.B. Du Bois and His White Editor Was an Early Reckoning Over Objectivity. By Jacob Rosenberg / Mother Jones
A new statue of Lincoln will adequately honor him alongside Black Americans. By Frank Smith / Wash Post
How Has the Electoral College Survived for This Long? Resistance to eliminating it has long been connected to the idea of white supremacy. By Alexander Keyssar / NYT
Returning From War, Returning to Racism. By Alexis Clark / NYT
The lies our textbooks told my generation of Virginians about slavery. By Bennett Minton / Wash Post
Who Were the Freedom Riders? By Derrick Bryson Taylor / NYT
A black man accused of rape, a white officer in the Klan, and a 1936 lynching that went unpunished. By Michael S. Rosenwald / Wash Post
Black Deaths Matter: The Centuries-Old Struggle To Memorialize Slaves And Victims Of Racism. By Vicki Daniel / The Conversation
The Revolutionary Life of Paul Robeson: Scholar Gerald Horne on the Great Antifascist Singer, Artist and Rebel. By Jeremy Scahell / The Intercept Podcast
When Marian Anderson Defied the Nazis. By Kira Thurman / The New Yorker
Image of Thomas Jefferson alongside Black descendant holds ‘a mirror’ to America. By Sharmar Walters and Maia Davis / NBC News
