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Activists are warning of a return to the Jim Crow era in America. But who or what was Jim Crow?

Since becoming president, Donald Trump has issued a record number of executive orders. Several aim to dismantle federally funded initiatives based on the idea that “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) are goals worth achieving.

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Wrecking ball: Trump’s war on ‘woke’ marks US society’s plunge into ‘dark times’

President’s ‘culture war’ crusade targets DEI and LGBTQ+ rights in bid to spread rightwing agenda, experts say

The Guardian - US

In 'Nickel Boys,' striving for a new way to see

The story of RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys,” laced with the cruelties of the Jim Crow-era South, has commonalities with films made before

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Will the American project survive the anger of white men?

At key moments throughout US history, white male anger has been privileged over national security, progress or basic welfare

The Guardian - US

Ta-Nehisi Coates describes what he saw in Palestine as ‘apartheid’, resembling America’s segregated Jim Crow South

In May 2023, renowned Black American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates spent ten days in the West Bank and Israel, where he spent half his time with Breaking the Silence, a group of former Israeli soldiers who now oppose the occupation.

The Conversation

Ron DeSantis banned lessons on racism in Florida public schools. ‘Freedom schools’ fill the gaps

Extracurricular classes teach ‘the majesty and value of Black history’ from the origins of Africa to Jim Crow policies

The Guardian - US

Mission to Israel Part V: There Is No "Apartheid"

When I tell Israelis that American students think they are like South Africa, they are shocked.

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Students on the frontline: South Africa and the US share a history of protest against white supremacy

Every year on 16 June, South Africa commemorates the revolt of black school children against the inferior “bantu education” system on that day in 1976. The horror of police shooting and killing unarmed children caused a global uproar. Historian Rico Devara Chapman’s research interests include a focus on the African…

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Florida Rep. Byron Donalds Defends Comments On Black Families

Florida Rep. Byron Donalds faces backlash for comments on Black families during Jim Crow, sparking debate on race and politics.

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Jim Crow 2.0: As US elections near, new efforts to suppress Black votes

Georgia primary today shines a light on Draconian measures to ensure Republican victories at the ballot box.

Al Jazeera

"Origin" makes injustice feel personal

The director of "13th" connects Isabel Wilkerson's story to the vast thesis of her acclaimed 2020 non-fiction book

Salon

How the resistance can stay persistent

Journalist Thomas Ricks on why Americans have been "given a flat narrow story" of the fight for democracy in the US

Salon

For a lesson in uniting against oligarchs and racist politics, look at 1870s Virginia

Working-class white former Confederates joined Black families to save free public schools that oligarchs were trying to eliminate. If they could come together then, what’s stopping Americans from uniting now?

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The Texas Tribune

Looking back at some of the best Texas Tribune reads of 2023

Our journalists brought life to the experiences of everyday Texans, held powerful institutions accountable and surfaced stories that went beyond the daily news cycles.

Reason

Civil Rights Groups Urge Federal Appeals Court To Strike Down Mississippi's Jim Crow–Era Felon Voting Ban

A broad coalition of civil rights groups and think tanks, including Reason Foundation, say that Mississippi's "mandatory, permanent, and effectively irrevocable" voting ban for certain offenders violates the Constitution.

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Rosalynn Carter made a wrongfully convicted felon a White House nanny and helped win her pardon

Rosalynn Carter used her powerful posts to address injustices as her husband rose in politics, especially those imposed as part of the racist Jim Crow system that prevailed in Georgia

The Independent UK

US Army to overturn century-old convictions of 110 Black soldiers

U.S. Army officials say they will overturn the convictions of 110 Black soldiers for a mutiny at a Houston military camp a century ago in a trial that had racial undertones

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The Guardian - US

Purlie Victorious review – Ossie Davis play makes triumphant Broadway return

Leslie Odom Jr leads a note-perfect cast in a revival of Ossie Davis’s thoughtful comedy about a preacher scheming to save his church in the Jim Crow South

The Independent UK

Mississippi should restore the voting rights of former felons, Democratic candidates say

Democratic nominees for two statewide offices are saying that Mississippi should stop defending a Jim Crow-era portion of its state constitution that permanently strips voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies

The Guardian - US

The states where it’s impossible to vote if you have a felony conviction

While states in recent years have moved away from Jim Crow-era policies, several still make it difficult for people leaving prison to regain the right to vote

The Guardian - UK

Origin review – a heartfelt look at a journalist challenging the concept of race

There are solid performances in this dramatisation of Isabel Wilkerson’s attempt to explain racism as an aspect of the caste system, but it may have been better as a documentary

Chicago Sun-Times

8 things to know about Wheeler Parker Jr., Emmett Till’s cousin, eyewitness to his lynching

Wheeler Parker, minister of a suburban Argo church, talks about Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching and brutal murder by white supremacists in Mississippi — and what triggered it.

The Texas Tribune

Family legacies and the state’s Jim Crow past underlie a fight over mineral rights on a stretch of South Texas scrubland

Descendants of a prominent white family and a formerly enslaved couple are fighting over ownership — and the oil and gas royalties that would come with it — of an 147.5-acre tract that has bound and divided generations of their families.

Reason

Both Biden and Trump Are Bad Candidates

The next presidential election may be between the two men. Can't we do better?

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