Past Voices
An Unholy Traffic: how the slave trade continued through the US civil war. By Rich Tenorio / The Guardian
Mississippi one of only four states that still celebrates Confederate Memorial Day. Why? By Grant McLaughlin / Clarion Ledger
Juneteenth or Jefferson Davis? Ala. state workers may have to choose. By Rachel Hatzipanagos / Wash Post (Image Britannica)
The Conservative Who Turned White Anxiety Into a Movement. By Ari Berman / The Atlantic
William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist, scholar and friend of Malcolm X, has died. By Michael Casey / ABC News
Galvanizing the American Public, ANC and Anti-Apartheid. By Jessica Ann Levy / AAIHS
Conspiracy Theories Surrounding The Assassination Of MLK. By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
As Civil Rights Era Fades From Memory, Generation Gap Divides Black Voters. By Maya King / NYT
The Mysterious Story Of Tituba: A Black Slave Woman Who Sparked The Salem Witch Trials.
Where Kamala Harris Lives, a Little Known History of Enslavement. By Robert Draper / NYT
A Virginia city burdened by history seeks a better future. By Theodore R. Johnson / Wash Post
Black sailor killed at Pearl Harbor identified after 80 years. By Michael E. Ruane / Wash Post
In Martin Luther King’s last speech, people remember the mountaintop but ignore the poor. By Clarence B. Jones / USA Today
How Mississippi’s Jim Crow Laws Still Haunt Black Voters Today. By Daja E. Henry / The Marshall Project
Uncovering The Black City Buried Under Lake Lanier. By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
Daniel A. Moore, Founder of an African American Museum, Dies at 88. By Adam Nossiter / NYT
“They Don’t Want to Teach Black History.” By Frances Madeson / Mother Jones
Last remaining Tulsa Race Massacre survivors argue for appeal in reparations lawsuit dismissal. By Steve Osunsami and Dhanika Pineda / ABC News
Hope is not the same as optimism, a psychologist explains − just look at MLK’s example. By Kendra Thomas / The Conversation
Free Blacks in Accomack County during the Antebellum Period. By Sabrina Watson / AAIHS
Northern Journalism in the Promotion of the Lost Cause. By Marvin Walker / AAIHS
Bryan Stevenson Says a Quest for “Historical Authenticity” Inspired the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. By Kia D. Goosby
Why civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was ‘sick and tired of being sick and tired.’ By Marlee Bunch / The Conversation
83 Years After His Killing, a Black Soldier Gets an Army Funeral. By Alexa Mills / NYT
Once a Roadside Attraction, a Native Burial Site Nears Repatriation. By Julia Jacobs / NYT
A California City Wrestles With Its History Of Discrimination Against Early Chinese Immigrants. By Terry Tang And Deepa Bharath / RNS
