Past Voices
Black Women Were Also Lynched. By Matthew Wills / JSTOR Daily
Jim Crow Was Economic Oppression and Domestic Terrorism. By William Spivey / Good Men Project
The Life Of Betsey Stockton. By Christopher D. E. Willoughby / AAIHS
Mary Church Terrell’s Influence On Black History Month. By Joshua L. Crutchfield / AAIHS
A Black author takes a new look at Georgia’s white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery. By Russ Bynum / AP
He unearthed his roots. Now he digs up lost stories of enslaved people. By Sydney Page / Wash Post
Slave memoirs yanked the veil off of America’s facade. By Zahara Hill / MSNBC
Rare 1892 Portrait Found Of Harriet Tubman At Age 70. By Stacy Jackson / Black Enterprise
Why Black Americans Should Commemorate The History Of Liberia. By Roger House / The Hill
Philadelphia’s ‘Black Shining Prince.’ By Menika Dirkson / AAIHS
How Wall Street Funded Slavery. By David Montero / Time
Charlotte Forten Describes Life on the Sea Islands. By Charlotte Forten Grimké / The Atlantic (May 1864 Issue)
Charlie Kirk’s racist Black pilot comment, meet the Tuskegee Airmen. By Mike Freeman / USA Today
The Crime Novelist Who Was Also a Great American Novelist. By S. A. Cosby / NYT
Slavery From the Inside — as Only a Slave Could Show It. By Carl Rollyson / The NY Sun
Home Front: Black Women Unionists in the Confederacy. By Matthew Wills / JSTOR
Decades after suspected arson, a historic Black church in Pennsylvania reopens as a Black history museum. By Kaitlyn Schwanemann / CNN
5 MLK speeches you should know besides ‘I Have a Dream.’ By Scott Neuman / NPR
The Perfectionist Tradition. By William P. Jones / Dissent Magazine
The Home of Carter G. Woodson, the Man Behind Black History Month. By Anna Kode’ / NYT
Historic sermon by Gina Stewart at joint Black Baptist meeting draws cheers, controversy. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Florida Republicans want to block removal of Confederate monuments. By Gary Fineout / Politico
Efforts to memorialize lynching victims divide American communities. By Rachel Hatzipanagos / Wash Post
91 Years in a Segregated Mental Institution. By Linda Villarosa / NYT
The Senate’s only Black Republican now loves Trump. It’s not a good look. By Lz Granderson / LA Times
Notoriously Conservative 5th Circuit Court Of Appeals Was Once A Leader In Expanding Civil Rights. By Jonathan Entin / TPM
