Past Voices
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
A sequel of injustice 60 years in the making. By Rann Miller / Salon
Inside the KKK plot to kill Barack Obama — and the FBI informant who stopped it. By john Kennedy / NY Post
“Sum of all parts”: Kamala Harris nomination is the culmination of “fierce” Black women leaders. By Tatyana Tandanpolie / Salon
Tulsa Race Massacre victims found with gunshot wounds. By Thao Nguyen / USA Today
60 Years Ago, Courage Confronted Racism at the Democratic Convention. By Margaret McMullian / The Bulwark
Meet Richard Theodore Greener, Harvard’s first Black graduate who was accepted into the school as an “experiment.” By Prosper Kuzo / Face2Face
Healing a Dark Past: The Long Road to Reopening Hospitals in the Rural South. By Aallyah Wright / Capital One
The Civil-Rights Era’s Great Unanswered Question. By Julian E. Zelizer / The Atlantic
Bronze statue of John Lewis replaces more than 100-year-old Confederate monument. By Ron Harris / ABC News
How the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument Can Help Us Reckon With Racial Trauma. By Jewel Wicker / Capital One
An NC slave’s forgotten story reappears after a century, speaking truth to power. By John Shaffer / The Charlotte Observer
Congress didn’t recognize a race riot. Biden will make the site a monument. By Maxine Joselow / Wash Post
Why Democrats Should Sing the Union’s Civil War Anthems. By Parker Richards / NYT
Black hospitals vanished in the U.S. decades ago. Some communities have paid. By Lauren Sausser / NPR
Ferguson 10 Years Later: How Protests Gave Way to Politics and Policy. By Audra D. S. Burch / NYT
