Past Voices
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
Overlooked No More: Elizabeth Keckly, Dressmaker and Confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln. By Nancy Wartik / NYT
Remembering Rosanell Eaton, An Outspoken Advocate for Voting Rights. By Leslie Ovalle / NPR
The overlooked heroes of the civil rights movement. Remembering Howard Thurman and other forgotten activists. David B. Gowler / Wash Post
Lorraine Hansberry, American radical: She pushed RFK to make “a moral commitment” on civil rights. Imani Perry / Salon
What Gordon Parks Witnessed: The injustices of Jim Crow and the evolution of a great American photographer – David Rowell / Wash Post
Mississippi’s first black senator was greeted with applause. But it wouldn’t last – Steve Hendrix / Wash Post
Olivia Hooker, one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 103 -DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
How to Remember Reconstruction – Gregory P. Downs and kate Masur / NYT
From slavery to possible sainthood: The story of America’s first black priest -DeNeen L. Brown / NYT
How a Difficult, Racist, Stubborn President Was Removed From Power – If Not From Office – David Priess / Politico
These Black Soldiers Fought for America. It Didn’t Protect Them From Jim Crow – Linda Hervieux / The Daily Beast
Decades before Stacey Abrams, these black women risked their lives to register black voters – Deneen L. Brown / Wash Post
The Civil War massacre that left nearly 200 black soldiers ‘murdered’ – DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
