The bill passed a Senate committee vote April 29 and will proceed to the full Senate. Caddo Commissioner Roy Burrell's ...

Right now the law says that if 20% of your neighbors don’t like what you’re doing they can force the city council to a super ...

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 ...

The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 was perhaps the worst incident of racial violence in American history. Our history is as ...

Texas lawmakers have sought to make it easier to build more homes — and harder for neighbors to block projects.

The strict separations of the Jim Crow economy are illustrated in perhaps ... punishment for a crime,” many southern states passed laws that, in practice, allowed authorities to arrest Black ...

In a segregated South under Jim Crow laws, “sundown towns” imposed curfews on Black people, threatening—and delivering—violence if they remained outside after sunset. But Black people have ...

Many of these ballots were cast without proper verification or monitoring. Biden called the 2021 law Jim Crow 2.0 and said, The goal of the former president and his ...