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 ...

Right-wing vigilantes have been in overdrive attempting to challenge the ballots of 2 million voters by Election Day.

A group of Mississippians who were stripped of their voting rights is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strike a provision of ...

Commonly known as Jim Crow laws, these unfair regulations impacted every aspect of Black life in America. African Americans ...

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Eighty years ago, Black soldier Booker T. Spicely was shot and killed in Durham by a white bus driver. Playwrights Howard L.

This was particularly the case in the southern states of the USA. Jim Crow laws denied Black people rights by enforcing segregation and discrimination in southern states. The Ku Klux Klan targeted ...

Exploring the injustice of felony disenfranchisement in Florida, where President-elect Donald Trump is registered to vote.

These Jim Crow-era laws included a lifetime voting ban on any Mississippi resident convicted of certain felonies. That lifetime ban is still in effect in the state today, more than 130 years later.

Its result is the regrettable kind of reverse segregation known as Crow Jim—a feeling that the white man has no civil rights when it comes to jazz. To Mingus and others, jazz is far more than music.