Past Voices
Past Voices – The Making of an Antislavery President – Eric Herschthal / New Republic
A Celebration of Black Lawyers, Past and Present – Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. / The New Yorker
Diary – A Personal Account of the Black Panthers in Algeria – Elaine Mokhtefi / London Review of Books
The Forgotten Legacy of Bill Lucas – Alex Putterman / The Atlantic
Google Honors War Hero, Civil Rights Icon Josephine Baker On Her 111th Birthday – Doha Madani / Huff Post
The Myth of the Kindly General Lee – Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
WWI’s Harlem Hellfighters Who Cut Down Germans and Gave France Jazz – Christopher Dickey / Daily Beast
Celebrating, and mourning, two beacons in the quest for racial equality – Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Hunting down runaway slaves: The cruel ads of Andrew Jackson and ‘the master class’ – DeNeen L. Brown / MSN
David Grann’s New Book Explores a Time When Killing Native Americans Wasn’t Murder – Lewis Beale / The Daily Beast
What Mississippi Taught Bobby Kennedy About Poverty – Ellen B. Meacham / NYT
James Cone and Taylor Branch on MLK’s Fight for Economic Equality – Bill Moyers
Civil Rights Icon, Historian Roger Wilkins Dead at 85 – Tanasia Kenney / Atl Black Star
Remembering Chuck Berry – David Hajdu / The Nation
How W.E.B. Du Bois Found His Final Resting Place in Ghana – Amy Yee / The Daily Beast
ACCRA, GHANA — At the end of a globetrotting career that took U.S. civil rights pioneer and author W.E.B. Du Bois from his home in…
A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters – Ibram X. Kendi / NYT
Many Americans might not know the more polemical side of race writing in our history. The canon of African-American literature is well established. Zora Neale…
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield: America’s First Black Pop Star – Adam Gustafson / The Conversation
During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today – Alana Semuels / The Atlantic
A history of sanctuary cities: How Black Americans protected fugitive slaves – Barbara Krauthamer / Salon
The Black Activist Who Fought Against D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” – Richard Brody / The New Yorker
The Harlem Globetrotters were often victims of racism off the court and behind the scenes – Sharon Brown / The Undefeated
Five myths about Frederick Douglass – Henry Louis Gates and John Stauffer / Wash Post
Satchel Paige becomes first Negro League player nominated to Baseball Hall of Fame – Rhiannon Walker / The Undefeated
Coach Bob Douglas and his New York Rens changed how basketball was played – Daryl Bell / The Undefeated
Boston Defies Trump on Immigrants the Way the City’s Abolitionists Once Fought Slavers – Kevin M. Levin / The Daily Beast
In a press conference at City Hall last month, surrounded by elected officials and black, Latino, and Asian staff members, Boston’s Mayor Marty Walsh delivered…
Heroes of a Civil War Victory That History Forgot – The Atlantic
On the morning of September 29, 1864, as dawn broke over eastern Virginia, some 7001 black soldiers in the 4th and 6th regiments of the…
When Ben Vereen Wore Blackface to Reagan’s Inaugural Gala – Pete L’Official / The New Yorker
On January 19, 1981, a number of prominent entertainers gathered at the Capital Centre, just outside of Washington, D.C., for the All Star Inaugural Gala,…