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 ...
One of Republicans’ most virulently held positions in the debate over the restrictive voting laws their party is pushing at the state level is that it’s a “big lie” or at least a “smear” to compare ...
To see what racism and race-baiting look like, peer no further than today’s Democrat-Left. From relentless obsession with critical race theory, baseless claims of "systemic racism," critical race ...
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 ...
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 ...
Democrats and voting rights activists have branded Georgia’s new election law “Jim Crow 2.0,” the modern equivalent of voter suppression tactics that disenfranchised Black Americans for nearly a ...
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 ...