Rep. Hakeem Jeffries ripped a fellow congressman for suggesting that Black people were better off during the era of Jim Crow segregation. The Democratic House minority leader on Wednesday slammed Rep.

The Supreme Court has nakedly attacked the most significant legislative achievement in American history: the Voting Rights Act. Justice Samuel Alito argued that Louisiana’s use of the law to support ...

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century beginning in ...

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The belief ushered in the era of racial segregation and was the reason why yours truly was born in a "separate but equal" hospital in 1961. As a little boy, I remember driving down south to visit my ...

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The Howard High School students who pushed to end Jim Crow segregation in Chattanooga set the rules for their history-making ...

The xenophobic, bigoted, and cruel policies of the Trump administration are bringing back traumatic memories of American racism and all the nightmares that went with it. A protest against Jim Crow ...