Past Voices
Review: Essential History in ‘Reconstruction’ on PBS. By Mike Hale / NYT
When Slaveowners Got Reparations. By Tera W. Hunter / NYT
Vanderbilt Student Senate Approves Bill to Rename Calhoun Hall, Two More Buildings Due to Slave-Owning Past. By Jenni Fink / Newsweek
Jackie Robinson was asked to denounce Paul Robeson. Instead, he went after Jim Crow. By Johnny Smith / The Undefeated
The fight against white supremacy could learn something from America’s first war on terror. By Charles Lane / Wash Post
A Landmark Concert 75 Years Ago. By Brian Gilmore / The Progressive
Martin Luther King or Lonnie King, we all have the power to change America. By Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick / USA Today
The Aftertaste of Slavery Still Haunts American Cooking. By Tom Philpott / Mother Jones
The Schools That Tried—But Failed—to Make Native Americans Obsolete. By Alia Wong / The Atlantic
Unearthing Black History at Green-Wood Cemetery. By Natalie Meade / The New Yorker
Inside Dearfield, a Colorado ghost town that was once a bustling all-black settlement. By Charlotte West / NBC News
Wyatt Tee Walker: Chief strategist for Martin Luther King Jr. in the struggle for civil rights. By Taylor McNeilly / The Conversation
What Catholic Church records tell us about America’s earliest black history. By Jane Landers / The Conversation
Overlooked No More: Dorothy Bolden, Who Started a Movement for Domestic Workers. NYT Obituraries
Rediscovering the lives of the enslaved people who freed themselves. By Mary Niall Mitchell ,Joshua D. Rothman, Edward E. Baptist, Vanessa Holden and Hasan Kwame Jeffries / Wash Post
Frederick Douglass’s Original New York Times Obituary From 1895
Trump keeps warning of a coup. But the only one in American history was a bloody, racist uprising. By Isaac Stanley-Becker / Wash Post
Equal-Opportunity Evil. By Rebecca Onion / Slate
An editor and his newspaper helped build white supremacy in Georgia. By Kathy Roberts Forde / The Conversation
Meet Annie Turnbo Malone, the hair care entrepreneur Trump shouted out in his Black History Month proclamation. By Nadra Nittle / Vox
The black men of the Civil War were America’s original ‘dreamers.’ By Colbert King / Wash Post
Pioneering Black Scientist Wins ‘Nobel Prize For The Environment.’ By Marlene Cimons / Huff Post
When the Suffrage Movement Sold Out to White Supremacy. By Brent Staples / NYT
On Langston Hughes’s 115th birthday, read his ambivalent ode to America. By Constance Grady / Vox
The Will to Kill, in Black and White. Race has played a heavy hand in the fates of soldiers facing death sentences in the U.S. military. By Bill Lueders / The Progressive
Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” is one of the greatest speeches in American rhetoric. By Constance Grady / Vox
