Past Voices
Teaching Hard History. Preface by Hasan Kwame Jeffries / Southern Poverty Law Center
Curious Kids: Who was the first black child to go to an integrated school? By Russell Wllsworth Lovell II / The Conversation
How Black Suffragettes Subverted the Domestic Sphere. By Hannah Giorgis / The Atlantic
Aaron Burr, the Vice President best known for shooting Alexander Hamilton, had a secret biracial family. By Leah Asmelash / CNN
A rural town confronts its buried history of mass killings of black Americans. By Teresa King / The Guardian
America’s Exclusionary Past and Present and the Judgment of History. By Michael Luo / The New Yorker
In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation. By Matthew Desmond / NYT
The El Paso shooting isn’t an anomaly. It’s American history repeating itself. By Zack Beauchamp / Vox
Immigration, Nationalism And America’s Founders. By Stuart Anderson / Forbes
Trump’s racism is an impeachable offense. The precedent of Andrew Johnson proves it. By Peter Irons / NBC News
White Women Slave Owners, Economics, and the Law. By Terri L. Snyder / AAIHS
100 years ago, white mobs across the country attacked black people. And they fought back. By Christina Maxouris / CNN
James Monroe Enslaved Hundreds. Their Descendants Still Live Next Door. By Audra D. S. Burch / NYT
2019 Belongs to Shirley Chisholm. By Jennifer Steinhauer / NYT
“What to the Slave Is 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech. By Democracy Now
The black woman who launched the modern fight for reparations. By Ashley D. Farmer / Wash Post
Twenty-five years ago, O.J. Simpson showed white Americans just how conditional their comfort with black athletes was. By Phillip Lamarr Cunningham / Wash Post
A former slave who was the first black Catholic priest takes a step toward sainthood. By Daniel Burke / CNN
African samurai: The enduring legacy of a black warrior in feudal Japan. By Emiko Jozuka and Natalie Leung / CNN
A Visit to the Unfathomable Past of Auschwitz. By Ralph Blumenthal / NYT
Slavery and the Family Tree. By Whitney Stewart / AAIHS
Documentary on the South’s first racially integrated Little League game in Orlando is on Netflix. By Annabelle Sikes / Orlando Weekly
HBO’s ‘What’s My Name’ expertly tells story of Muhammad Ali as fighter, thinker. By Richard Roeper / Chicago Sun Times
Before Jack Johnson or Jackie Robinson, there was Major Taylor. By Michael Kranish / The Undefeated
Columbus brought measles to the New World. It was a disaster for Native Americans. By Michael S. Rosenwald / Wash Post
Weeksville, a Haven for Free African-Americans Before the Civil War, Is Fighting for Survival. By Corina Knoll and Morgan Jenkins / NYT
