The Latest Breaking News from Jim Crow

Every year on 16 June, South Africa commemorates the revolt of black school children against the inferior “bantu education” system on that day in 1976. The horror of police shooting and killing unarmed children caused a global uproar. Historian Rico Devara Chapman’s research interests include a focus on the African…

Florida Rep. Byron Donalds faces backlash for comments on Black families during Jim Crow, sparking debate on race and politics.

Delroy Lindo joins Michael B. Jordan in a supernatural horror thriller set in the Jim Crow-era South. Warner Bros. secures rights for the film.

Georgia primary today shines a light on Draconian measures to ensure Republican victories at the ballot box.

The director of "13th" connects Isabel Wilkerson's story to the vast thesis of her acclaimed 2020 non-fiction book

Journalist Thomas Ricks on why Americans have been "given a flat narrow story" of the fight for democracy in the US

Working-class white former Confederates joined Black families to save free public schools that oligarchs were trying to eliminate. If they could come together then, what’s stopping Americans from uniting now?

Our journalists brought life to the experiences of everyday Texans, held powerful institutions accountable and surfaced stories that went beyond the daily news cycles.

A broad coalition of civil rights groups and think tanks, including Reason Foundation, say that Mississippi's "mandatory, permanent, and effectively irrevocable" voting ban for certain offenders violates the Constitution.

Rosalynn Carter used her powerful posts to address injustices as her husband rose in politics, especially those imposed as part of the racist Jim Crow system that prevailed in Georgia

U.S. Army officials say they will overturn the convictions of 110 Black soldiers for a mutiny at a Houston military camp a century ago in a trial that had racial undertones