Past Voices
The brutal trade in enslaved people within the US has been largely whitewashed out of history. By Joshua D. Rothman / The Conversation
Black Student Activism and Durham’s Campus Movement. By Brandon K. Winford / AAIHS
The myths about slavery that still hold America captive. By John Blake / CNN
After California moves to return Bruce’s Beach to Black family, a push to recover other seized land. By Alicia Victoria Lozano and Lindsey Davis / NBC News
Journalists bungled coverage of the Attica uprising. 50 years later, the consequences remain. By Erik Wemple / Wash Post
When Black History Is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak for the Dead? By Jill Lepore / The New Yorker
In 1865, thousands of Black South Carolinians signed a 54-foot-long freedom petition. By Michael E. Ruane / Wash Post
Civil rights lessons from 1961 influence 2021. The fight is not over. By Nicole Carroll / USA Today
The Betrayal of Historically Black Colleges. By Katherine Mangan / The Chronicle of Higher Education
Remembering Virginia’s ‘Forgotten 14.’ By A. Donald McEachin / Wash Post
Historic Black cemetery buried below parking lot at center of legal dispute. By Erik Ortiz / NBC News
Bringing Black History to Life in the Great Outdoors. By James Edward Mills / NYT
The Latino family of Sylvia Mendez were pivotal in the desegregation fight. By Raul A. Reyes / NBC News
The ugly history behind those border agents chasing Haitian migrants on horseback. By Julia Craven / Slate
Martin Luther King, Jr. and 1619. By Robert Greene II / AAIHS
Some Asked, ‘Does Chattanooga Need a Lynching Memorial?’ By Chris Moody / NYT
Digital records from 19th Century give Black families a glimpse of their ancestry. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Robert E. Lee was a stone-cold loser. By Dana Milbank / Wash Post
