Past Voices
Featured – The German model for America. By Mattie Kahn / Vox
The origins of policing in America. Wash Post Video
Remembering The Augusta Civil Rights Riot, 50 Years Later. By Sea Stachura / NPR
California was a free state. But there was still slavery. Now reparations are on the table. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
THE FIRSTS: The children who desegregated America. A Special project from The Atlantic.
‘Blatant disregard and disrespect of Black people’: Virginia district apologizes for segregated schools – 53 years later. By Elinor Aspegren / USA Today
On Louisville, Breonna Taylor, and Muhammad Ali. By David Zirin / The Nation
Making Amends for a Massacre: The Story of Rosewood’s Path to Reparations—And What America Can Learn From It. By Victor Luckerson / Time
Freedom Day, 1963: A Lost Interview with James Baldwin. By Fern Marjo Eckman / The New Yorker
Police Power and the Election of Newark’s First Black Mayor. By Andrew Grimm / AAIHS
How Jewish history and the Holocaust fueled Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s quest for justice. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
A Pattern of Resistance: The Tuskegee Airmen on Trial, Part 1. By Michael Hankins / Smithsonian
Revisiting Lerone Bennett Jr.’s ‘Forced Into Glory.’ By E. James West / AAIHS
The history of Black voter suppression — and the fight for the right to vote. By LaTosha Brown / NBC News Video
Black scuba divers document slave shipwrecks forgotten for generations. By Allie Yang / ABC News
Black, Native American and Fighting for Recognition in Indian Country. By Jack Healy / NYT
Our Long, Forgotten History of Election-Related Violence. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Fascism Scholar Says U.S. Is ‘Losing Its Democratic Status.’ By Christianna Silva and james Doubek / NPR
