Past Voices
New Haven, Connecticut turned down what would have been the first Black college in 1831. Now, city officials might apologize. By Dawn Sawyer / CNN
How Native Americans guarded their societies against tyranny. By Kathleen DuVal / The Conversation.
How the John Birch Society tried to radicalize the American right in the ’60s. By Nellie Gilles / NPR
The road to a slave-free Georgia: the little-known history of state founder James Oglethorpe. By George Chidi / The Guardian
America’s newest monuments unveil a different look at the nation’s past. By Krystal Nurse / USA Today
The Troubled History of Medical Harm to Black Women. By Savannah Flanagan / AAIHS
Nat Turner’s Rebellion: An American Tale Of Defiance And Tragedy. By NewsOne Staff
Tulsa Race Massacre Update: DOJ Review Called Long Overdue. By Bruce C.T. Wright / Newsone
African Americans and the First Black Republic. By Sherri V. Cummings / AAIHS
The Civil War Still Echoes in the South, Forcing Towns to Take Sides. By Scott Calvert and Cameron McWhirter / WSJ
Traditions of Resistance in the Black Diaspora. By Christina Proenza-Coles / AAIHS
I see Howard of the 1980s in Kamala Harris. By Carla Hall / Wash Post
White People Have Never Forgiven Haitians for Claiming Their Freedom. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
Examining Identity in Louisiana’s 19th-Century Black Literature. By Tanguy Gil / AAIHS
Kamala Harris’ purported Irish ancestry highlights complicated backstory of identity and enslavement. By Christine Kinealy , Kimberly DaCosta and Miriam Nylan Grey / The Conversation
Project 1619 loses ‘a force of nature’ with death of founder Calvin Pearson. By Josh Janney / The Virginia-Pilot
Enslaved Women’s Resistance to Slavery and Gendered Violence. By Sean Gallagher / AAIHS
Montgomery County shouldn’t pave over a Black community’s past. By the Editorial Board / Wash Post
Kamala Harris’ purported ancestry highlights complicated backstory of Irish identity and enslavement. By Christine Kinealy, Kimberly DaCosta and Miriam Nylan Grey / The Conversation
New York Cemetery for Enslaved People Reclaimed. By Shannon McDonagh / Newsweek
Alabama’s First Official Black Town Celebrates 125th Founder’s Day. By Jeroslyn JoVonn / Black Enterprise
Black people were once expelled from Forsyth County, Georgia. Can a scholarship make amends? By Marquise Francis / NBC News
Abandoned beach, once segregated, revitalized by community activists. By Lakeia Brown / ABC News
The Rights of American Slaves. By Jerusalem Demsas / The Atlantic
ournalist withheld information about Emmett Till’s murder, documents show. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
How Raleigh once demolished a Black neighborhood and displaced more than 1,000 people. By John Shaffer / News Observer and Yahoo News
Why people stay after local economies collapse − a story of home among the ghosts of shuttered steel mills. By Amanda McMillan Lequieu / The Conversation
Nat Turner’s Insurrection. By Thomas Wentworth Higginson / The Atlantic (August 1861 Issue)
How a racist letter from 1858 relates to current-day politics. By Charles B. Dew / Tampa Bay Times
Confederate statues come down as Black history rises across the U.S. By Krystal Nurse / USA Today
