Past Voices
When White Women Wanted a Monument to Black ‘Mammies.’ By Alison M. Parker / NYT
Our Ancestors Were Sold to Save Georgetown. ‘$400,000 Is Not Going to Do It.’ By DaVita Robinson, Valerie White and Maxine Crump / NYT
Strivings of the Negro People. By W.E. Burghardt Du Bois / The Atlantic August 1897 Issue
Tulsa plans to dig for suspected mass graves from a 1921 race massacre. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
Newsom grants posthumous pardon to civil rights leader Bayard Rustin. By Phil Willon / LA Times
America’s last slave ship stole them from home. It couldn’t steal their identities. By Joel K. Bourne, Jr., Sylviane Diouf and Chelsea Brasted / National Geographic
Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide. By Greg Grandin / The Nation
Ella Baker’s Legacy Runs Deep. Know Her Name. By Barbara Ransby / NYT
An enslaved man was crucial to the Lewis and Clark expedition’s success. Clark refused to free him afterward. By Hannah Natanson / Wash Post
Fifty Years After the Police Murders of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. By Norman Stockwell and Frances Madeson / The Progressive
‘The War of Races’: How a hateful ideology echoes through American history. By Michael E. Miller / Wash Post
Slavery cost him his family. That’s when Henry ‘Box’ Brown mailed himself to freedom. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
This week is the somber anniversary of the largest mass execution in the US. By Leah Asmelash / CNN
The Dark History of New Year’s Day in American Slavery / By Olivia B. Waxman / Time
An investigation has revealed what may be 2 mass grave sites from the 1921 Tulsa race riots. By Elizabeth Wolfe and Saeed Ahmed / CNN
Overlooked No More: Bessie Coleman, Pioneering African-American Aviatrix. By Daniel E. Slotnik / NYT
Jacqueline Woodson on Africa, America and Slavery’s Fierce Undertow. By Jacqueline Woodson / NYT
Ralph Ellison’s Slow-Burning Art. Sixty years of the writer’s letters chart his evolution from iconoclast to icon. By Kevin Young / The New Yorker
