Past Voices
The Black Female Battalion That Stood Up to a White Male Army. By Christina Brown Fisher / NYT
The Hidden History Of Juneteenth. By Gregory P. Downs / TPM
Black Americans, crucial workers in crises, emerge worse off – not better. By Calvin Schermerhorn / The Conversation
Racial violence and a pandemic: How the Red Summer of 1919 relates to 2020. By Erik Ortiz / NBC News
How Richard Pryor Changed the Way Comedy Sees Police Brutality. By Jason Zinoman / NYT
What the Face of Emmett Till Says About Every Brutalized Black Body—Then and Now. By W. Ralph Eubanks / Vanity Fair
Like Trump, JFK faced riots. Here’s what he did to stop the violence in Birmingham in 1963. By Steven Levingston / Wash Post
During World War II, the black press campaigned for a double victory – over tyranny abroad and segregation at home. By Dan C. Goldberg / The Undefeated
Wilson Jerman witnessed it all in his 50-plus years in the White House. By Will Haygood / Wash Post
Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy? By The Editorial Board / NYT
The West is relevant to our long history of anti-blackness, not just the South. By Walter Johnson / Wash Post
The 1918 pandemic was linked to a rise in Nazi support. Will this pandemic be similar? By Igor Derysh / Salon
Discover the life and legacy of Lloyd Garrison Wheeler, the first black lawyer in Illinois. By Mitzi Miller / NYT
How ‘Mrs. America’ gives Shirley Chisholm her due — and exposes the limits of 1970s feminism. By Sonia Rao / Wash Post
How the rich reacted to the bubonic plague has eerie similarities to today’s pandemic. By Kathryn McKinley / The Conversation
Erased from utopia: the hidden history of LA’s black and brown resistance. By Mike Davis and Jon Wiener / The Guardian
‘Remarkable’ woman discovered as last known survivor of transatlantic slave trade. By Jack Guy / CNN
The Myth Of Black Immunity: Racialized Disease During The COVID-19 Pandemic. By Chelsey Carter And Ezelle Sanford III / AAIHS
In 1918 and 2020, race colors America’s response to epidemics. By Soraya Nadia McDonald / The Undefeated
The First African American Woman To Obtain A Graduate Degree In Physics Was Involved In A Top Secret US Mission. By Anna Powers / Forbes
Slavery: new digital tools show how important slave trade was to Liverpool’s development. By Nicholas Radburn and David Eltis / The Conversation
Lost Lineage: The quest to identify black Americans’ roots. By Nicole Ellis / Wash Post
Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician And An Inspiration For ‘Hidden Figures,’ Dies. By Russell Lewis / NPR
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre will soon be a part of the curriculum for Oklahoma schools. By Christina Maxouris / CNN
Groveland Four, the black men pardoned after 1949 rape accusation, honored with memorial. By Erij Ortiz / NBC News
Malcolm X’s Daughter Ilyasah Shabazz on Her Father’s Legacy & the New Series “Who Killed Malcolm X?” By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
