Jim Crow was never real. He was a work of fiction, a character cobbled together from various Black traits as seen through a white man's gaze. And though his name is forever linked with the racist anti ...
Jim Crow was not the problem. Jim Crow was meant to be the solution. The problem was Rutherford B. Hayes winning the electoral college but losing the popular vote in 1876. To get over the hump — there ...
A vice presidential contender for former President Donald Trump's 2024 ticket is facing backlash over his comments suggesting that life was better for Black Americans under Jim Crow. Republican ...
Rev. Al Sharpton engaged in a heated back and forth with Rep. Byron Donalds on Saturday after the MSNBC host suggested the Florida Republican had put a "positive spin" on the Jim Crow era. Sharpton ...
Republican Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida is returning fire after top Democrats took aim at the leading Black surrogate for former President Trump over comments he made earlier this week. The ...
WLRN has partnered with PolitiFact to fact-check Florida politicians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning team seeks to present the true facts, unaffected by agenda or biases. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., a ...
BIG RAPIDS, Mich. — Ferris State University faculty and staff gathered to break ground on a new museum that will house the school's massive collection of racist materials. The university's Jim Crow ...
Paintings by Professor Viktor Lowenfeld and his student John Biggers are featured in the National Museum of Jewish History's exhibit about Jewish refugees who found work teaching a black colleges in ...
In 2013, the artist and activist Fury Young read Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, and it changed his life. The watershed book illuminates how mass incarceration in 21st century America functions ...