Past Voices
How Jewish history and the Holocaust fueled Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s quest for justice. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
A Pattern of Resistance: The Tuskegee Airmen on Trial, Part 1. By Michael Hankins / Smithsonian
Revisiting Lerone Bennett Jr.’s ‘Forced Into Glory.’ By E. James West / AAIHS
The history of Black voter suppression — and the fight for the right to vote. By LaTosha Brown / NBC News Video
Black scuba divers document slave shipwrecks forgotten for generations. By Allie Yang / ABC News
Black, Native American and Fighting for Recognition in Indian Country. By Jack Healy / NYT
Our Long, Forgotten History of Election-Related Violence. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Fascism Scholar Says U.S. Is ‘Losing Its Democratic Status.’ By Christianna Silva and james Doubek / NPR
Tulsa Race Massacre survivors file lawsuit, demanding ‘repair’ for 1921 attack. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
The History of Black College Football. By Joshua Crutchfield / AAIHS
The Massacre That Emboldened White Supremacists. By William Briggs and Jon Krakauer / NYT
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
