Past Voices
Did You Know The Oldest Degree-Granting HBCU Was Founded 170 Years Ago Today? By Rayna Reid Rayford / Essence
On its 125th anniversary, W.E.B. Du Bois’ ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ offers lasting lessons on gentrification in Philly’s historically Black neighborhoods. By Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana and Freeden Blume Oeur / The Conversation
Historians Look Back at Life and Career of Civil Rights Activist and Representative John Lewis in New Biography. By Charlotte Phillipp / People
The Racist Origins of America’s Broken Immigration System. By Felipe De La Hoz / TNR
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
