Past Voices
What Julian Bond Taught Me About Politics and Power. By Jeanne Theoharis / AAIHS
US Senate has only had 11 Black senators in its 232-year history. By Faith Karimi / CNN
Lone Wolves Connected Online: A History of Modern White Supremacy. By Laura Smith / NYT
How enslaved Black people helped make Washington our nation’s capital. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Raphael Warnock and the Solitude of the Black Senator. By Theodore R. Johnson / NYT
Lincoln Knew in 1838 What 2021 Would Bring. By Bret Stephens / NYT
Enslaved Black craftsmen helped build the U.S. Capitol that a mob fueled by racist rhetoric stormed. By Felicia A. Bell / Wash Post
Trump Administration’s ‘1776 Report’ Justifies Slavery, Three-Fifths Compromise. By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost
When Medicare Helped Kill Jim Crow. By Mike Konczal / The Nation
Lincoln’s first inauguration met with threats of kidnapping, killing and militias. By Michael E. Ruane / Wash Post
Virginia holiday commemorating Confederate generals won’t be celebrated in 2021, for the first time in over 100 years. By Li Cohen / CBS News
Reconstruction lessons for Trump: Dealing with Confederate treason was more complicated than you’d think. By Rebecca Onion / Slate
The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy. By Vanessa Williamson / Dissent
Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document? By Gordon S. Wood / NYT
Mass Incarceration and the Metaphor of Slavery. By Shannon King / AAIHS
I Desegregated the University of Georgia. History Is Still in the Making. By Charlayne Hunter-Gault / NYT
Preserving New York’s Ties to the Underground Railroad. By John Freeman Gill / NYT
2021’s call to Reconstruction. By E. J. Dionne Jr. / Wash Post
How a courageous Southern governor broke ranks with segregationists in 1961. By John Drescher / Wash Post
New Native American memorial offers peace in the heart of one of the city’s few wild spaces. By Philip Kennicott / Wash Post
1st Chinese American lawyer gets Columbia Law honor, highlights past barriers. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
Don’t ‘better explain’ the Emancipation Memorial. Put up monuments to Black people instead. By Karen Attiah / Wash Post
Statue Of Lincoln With Formerly Enslaved Man At His Feet Is Removed In Boston. Bill Chappell / NPR
The Haunting of Tulsa, Okla. A recently unearthed mass grave may soon provide answers about what happened to victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. By Brent Staples / NYT
Sculpture honors 1st Black president of an American college. By Lisa Rathke / ABC News
‘Most Important Indian,’ And Treaty Rights Advocate Hank Adams Dies At 77. By Jaclyn Diaz / NPR
