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 ...

Even outside this formal system, they endured racism from white ... Passing for White grew in popularity during Jim Crow because of anti-black racism. Society positioned Black people as inferior.

Rather than a "shining beacon of American progress, the canal construction was if anything one of the most glaring examples ...

Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said his previous theory that the Trump administration would enact “Jim Crow 2.0” is coming true. Clyburn joined CNN’s Brianna Keilar on Wednesday, and he was ...

As the 2025 legislative session draws near, hundreds of Louisiana prisoners remain in political limbo. But a new bill could provide them with relief.

The Nazis thought that the Jim Crow system took things too far, like the one-drop rule, for example. [The one-drop rule is the idea that any kind of Black ancestry — one drop — makes a person ...

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 ...