Past Voices
Documentary “The King”: “The American people are Elvis. They have been hoodwinked” – D. Watkins / Salon
These young black women made desegregation possible. We need to learn from their example – Rachel Devlin / LA Times
The Education Of Bobby Kennedy — On Race – Karen Grigsby Bates / NPR Morning Edition
Unseen photographs of civil rights conflict in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 – Greg Whitmore / The Guardian
The Historian Behind Slavery Apologists Like Kanye West – Brian Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle / NYT
How African-Americans disappeared from the Kentucky Derby – Katherine Moony / The Conversation
Ida B. Wells and the Lynching of Black Women – Crystal N. Feimster / NYT
Watch: The Memphis Sanitation Strike Ends – Kirsten West Savali, and Emily Yelllin / The Root
The preacher who used Christianity to revive the Ku Klux Klan – DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
After MLK’s Death, Coretta Scott King Went To Memphis To Finish His Work – Debbie Elliott / NPR
Zora Neale Hurston: Black Feminist Icon and Thought Criminal – Gil Troy / The Daily Beast
‘Martin Luther King Jr.’s Unfinished Work on Earth Must Truly Be Our Own’ – Benjamin E. Mays / The Atlantic
The Frederick Douglass Rival Who Shocked With His Call to ‘Resist’ – Gil Troy / Daily Beast
Racial segregation doesn’t just belong to the South. It belongs to all of us – David Von Drehle / Wash Post
You Can’t Put Frederick Douglass in Chains – Nicholas Buccola / NYT
Frederick Douglass’s Fight Against Scientific Racism – Eric Herschthal / NYT
How ‘Strange Fruit’ Killed Billie Holiday – Brandon Weber / The Progressive
The Mystery Behind Frederick Douglass’s Birthday – Annika Neklason / The Atlantic
Revisiting Jefferson’s history as a slave owner – David K. Ronka / Wash Post
10 quotes from 1968 Kerner Commission report on race that resonate today / CNN
The hidden history of black nationalist women’s political activism – Keisha N. Blain / The Conversation
A Monument the Old South Would Like to Ignore – Magaret Renkl / NYT
Concerning Monuments – The Shaw Memorial : A Salute to the Soldiers of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment
“Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart”: An absorbing portrait of an activist’s soul – Melanie McFarland / Salon
Meet the theologian who helped MLK see the value of nonviolence – Paul Harvey / The Conversation
Recy Taylor’s Truth – Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic
