The Latest Breaking News from Jim Crow

ATLANTA — In 1995, Tyler Perry was a broke, struggling screenwriter who would sneak into Alliance Theatre plays during intermission, entering with the smokers.

The analysis reinforces the historical case for armed self-defense in response to racist violence.

What’s wrong with this picture? A federal appeals court in Mississippi, in recently considering whether to overturn an 1890 law that makes it almost impossible for ex-convicts to ever vote again, wrote that the law was “steeped in racism” from its very inception. Then that same court upheld the law…

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“Despite Jim Crow and the challenges that Black people faced, people who worked on the railroad had an opportunity to build a better life,” Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said during an event at the Pullman National Monument and State Historic Site.

In early August the White House invited an all-white group of historians to talk about threats to American democracy.

Law passed in 1890 was tailored ‘to exclude the Negro’ but appeals court says tweaks in 20th century ‘cleansed … discriminatory taint’

Long overshadowed by the porter men, the maids were smaller in number. Often they were the only Black female employee within a Pullman car.

After bracing for a supposed return of Jim Crow, Georgia saw a major increase in early votes in this week's primaries.

The author of Their Eyes Were Watching God defies easy political categorization.

The South has risen again. Anything that involves privacy is gone.