Past Voices
The Myth of the Kindly General Lee – Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
WWI’s Harlem Hellfighters Who Cut Down Germans and Gave France Jazz – Christopher Dickey / Daily Beast
Celebrating, and mourning, two beacons in the quest for racial equality – Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Hunting down runaway slaves: The cruel ads of Andrew Jackson and ‘the master class’ – DeNeen L. Brown / MSN
David Grann’s New Book Explores a Time When Killing Native Americans Wasn’t Murder – Lewis Beale / The Daily Beast
What Mississippi Taught Bobby Kennedy About Poverty – Ellen B. Meacham / NYT
James Cone and Taylor Branch on MLK’s Fight for Economic Equality – Bill Moyers
Civil Rights Icon, Historian Roger Wilkins Dead at 85 – Tanasia Kenney / Atl Black Star
Remembering Chuck Berry – David Hajdu / The Nation
How W.E.B. Du Bois Found His Final Resting Place in Ghana – Amy Yee / The Daily Beast
ACCRA, GHANA — At the end of a globetrotting career that took U.S. civil rights pioneer and author W.E.B. Du Bois from his home in…
A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters – Ibram X. Kendi / NYT
Many Americans might not know the more polemical side of race writing in our history. The canon of African-American literature is well established. Zora Neale…
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield: America’s First Black Pop Star – Adam Gustafson / The Conversation
During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today – Alana Semuels / The Atlantic
A history of sanctuary cities: How Black Americans protected fugitive slaves – Barbara Krauthamer / Salon
The Black Activist Who Fought Against D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” – Richard Brody / The New Yorker
The Harlem Globetrotters were often victims of racism off the court and behind the scenes – Sharon Brown / The Undefeated
Five myths about Frederick Douglass – Henry Louis Gates and John Stauffer / Wash Post
Satchel Paige becomes first Negro League player nominated to Baseball Hall of Fame – Rhiannon Walker / The Undefeated
