Past Voices
For African Americans tired of U.S. hostility, Ghana is still calling. By Karen Attiah / Wash Post
The Ugly Backlash to Brown v. Board of Ed That No One Talks About. By Leslie T. Fenwick / Politico
John Canley, awarded Medal of Honor 50 years after Tet Offensive, dies at 84. By Harrison Smith / Wash Post
The night a veiled threat encouraged a white mob to leave a Black church alone. By David Dennis Jr. / Anscape
Recovering the History of Black Showgirls in Las Vegas. Su Kim Chung / AAIHS
The 1619 Project: Making space for long-ignored truths. By Tom Roberts / National Catholic Reporter
The Racist Song That Has Dug Deep Roots in American Culture. By Rick Bragg / NYT
How the Government Helped White Americans Steal Black Farmland. By Dania Francis, Darrick Hamilton, Thomas Mitchell, Nathan Rosenberg, Bryce Wilson Stucki / The New Republic
When the Nevada Supreme Court Tackled Racial Bias. By Randolph M. Fiedler & Jocelyn S. Murphy /AAIHS
The Day the Civil-Rights Movement Changed. By David Dennis / The Atlantic
A New Orleans community center rises from its ugly history as a segregated school. By Connie L. Schaffer, Martha Graham Victor and Meg White / The Conversation
‘Fear and Confusion’: A Tale of Internment. By Jake Whitney / The Progressive Magazine
Here is a hard historical truth: Slavery powerfully shaped Harvard. By Lawrence S. Bacow and Tomiko Brown-Nagin. Wash Post
Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues. By Kate Clifford Larson / The Conversation
Slavery reckoning requires confronting sexual exploitation of Black women. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post
How to Tell the History of the Democrats. By Timothy Shenk / Dissent Magazine
The Rodney King effect: 30 years after riots, how far has LA come? By Francine Kiefer / CSM
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Aesthetics of Emancipation. By Clay Martin / AAIHS
