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 ...

Members of the Edward Livingston Historical Association recently explored the continuity of arguments prominent Southerners used, sometimes 100 years apart, to defend chattel slavery and Jim Crow ...

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 ...

The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is calling for Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) to apologize to Black Americans for his recent comments that insinuated they were better off under Jim Crow laws.

This is what Donalds does. But instead of accusing Donalds of performing anti-Blackness in exchange for praise and pats on the head from his white colleagues, theGrio decided to fact-check Donalds’ ...

Charles Caldwell was never meant to have a voice. Mississippi’s White ruling class made sure of it. He was part of Mississippi’s silenced majority in 1860 — 436,600 enslaved people to 354,000 White ...

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — who eagerly describes herself as a prosecutor running against “felon” Donald Trump — likened law enforcement in America to lynching and Jim Crow ...

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., a prominent supporter of former President Donald Trump, recently tried to draw Black voters to Trump’s side, but a comparison he made involving the Jim Crow era drew ...

As President Donald Trump’s administration continues to form and top officials are confirmed, questions remain about the future of a highly publicized and pending Biden administration lawsuit against ...

To the editor: If the U.S. Constitution gives the right to vote to every citizen over 18 years of age, then states need to guarantee that every citizen can exercise that right. That means they must ...

John Gray Lucas was born on March 11, 1864, in Marshall, Texas, to George and Bettie Lucas. As a child, Lucas moved to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where he attended public school. He attended the Branch ...

The friction was on full display at a Senate hearing on Tuesday. Partisan divides were on full display Tuesday morning as the Senate Judiciary Committee discussed a wave of restrictive voting ...