Past Voices
Exclusive: Martin Luther King Jr. Talks Reparations, White Economic Anxiety and Guaranteed income in a Previously Unheard Speech. By Michael Hariot / The Root
Revisiting the Poor People’s Campaign and Its Legacy. By Bobby Cervantes / AAIHS
Restoring Black Cowboys to the Range. By Sarah Maslin Nir / NYT
Teaching Hard History. Preface by Hasan Kwame Jeffries / Southern Poverty Law Center
Curious Kids: Who was the first black child to go to an integrated school? By Russell Wllsworth Lovell II / The Conversation
How Black Suffragettes Subverted the Domestic Sphere. By Hannah Giorgis / The Atlantic
Aaron Burr, the Vice President best known for shooting Alexander Hamilton, had a secret biracial family. By Leah Asmelash / CNN
A rural town confronts its buried history of mass killings of black Americans. By Teresa King / The Guardian
America’s Exclusionary Past and Present and the Judgment of History. By Michael Luo / The New Yorker
In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation. By Matthew Desmond / NYT
The El Paso shooting isn’t an anomaly. It’s American history repeating itself. By Zack Beauchamp / Vox
Immigration, Nationalism And America’s Founders. By Stuart Anderson / Forbes
Trump’s racism is an impeachable offense. The precedent of Andrew Johnson proves it. By Peter Irons / NBC News
White Women Slave Owners, Economics, and the Law. By Terri L. Snyder / AAIHS
100 years ago, white mobs across the country attacked black people. And they fought back. By Christina Maxouris / CNN
James Monroe Enslaved Hundreds. Their Descendants Still Live Next Door. By Audra D. S. Burch / NYT
2019 Belongs to Shirley Chisholm. By Jennifer Steinhauer / NYT
“What to the Slave Is 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech. By Democracy Now
