Past Voices
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
Trump wants to remove these immigrants. An ugly bit of history tells us what it could do to the economy – Andrew Van Dam / Wash Post
How Ella Mae Wray Seized the Opportunities of 1968 – Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic
S. Allen Counter : Harvard neurophysiologist, explorer, ethnographer, social-justice advocate – Michael Paterniti / NYT
A Century Later, a Little-Known Mass Hanging of Black Soldiers Still Haunts Us – James Jeffrey / The Progressive
For black women, #MeToo came centuries too late – Colbert I. King / Wash Post
‘Unflinching’: The day John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harpers Ferry – DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
The gang rape was horrific. The NAACP sent Rosa Parks to investigate (“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”) – DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
The Thanksgiving an imprisoned Jack Johnson fought two men at Leavenworth – Roberto Jose Andrade Franco / The Undefeated
James Baldwin and Richard Avedon’s divided states – Steven W. Thrasher / The Guardian
When Jazz Age Superstar Josephine Baker Spied on the Nazis – Meredith Hindley / Daily Beast
In 1898, White Supremacists Killed 60+ African Americans in One of Deadliest Mass Shootings in U.S. – Bishop William Barber / Democracy Now
James Madison’s Lessons in Racism – Noah Feldman / NYT
When Black Lives Mattered: Why Teach Reconstruction – Adam Sanchez / The Nation
‘Insulting African American Gold Star widows has a history’ – Derek Hawkins / Wash Post
Learning from Fannie Lou Hamer – Matthew Miles Goodrich / Dissent
The Confederacy’s ‘Living Monuments’ – Karen L. Cox / NYT
