The Latest Breaking News from Jim Crow

Central Victoria's Dja Dja Wurrung people and their supporters have been pushing for Jim Crow Creek to be renamed for more than a decade, finally earning a new entry in the government gazette.

Carolyn Bryant Donham was at the centre of Till’s murder, underscoring a brutal legacy of Jim Crow-era racist violence

DALLAS — Harlan Crow believes he and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are the victims of a “political hit job.”

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches has been sold to a historical museum in Michigan and will be moved to a site near Detroit for preservation

Washington (AFP) - Vice President Kamala Harris headed to the southern US state of Tennessee on Friday as the expulsion of two Black legislators from the state assembly escalated into a major row over race and representation.

It took both ingenuity and courage for African Americans to become artists in the Jim Crow-era Deep South, said Maya Jaggi in the FT. The region’s black inhabitants typically received no education beyond primary level and were limited to low-paid jobs, making materials like oil paint all but unaffordable. Since…

ST. PAUL, Minn. — There were four generations of Gordon Kirks at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in St. Paul on Sunday morning.

When a draft of an upcoming United States Supreme Court decision curtailing legal abortion access in the U.S. leaked in May 2022, Karina Gould, Canada’s minister of families, children and social development, declared that Americans seeking abortions would be welcomed north of the border.

Angel Pittman says her dream to create a mobile hair salon was thwarted when a neighbor harassed her with racist comments and vandalized her buses

The Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was just 16 years old when his cousin and best friend, Emmett Till, was lynched in 1955. Today, he is the last living witness of the kidnapping.

Democrat Jennifer McClellan is set to be sworn in to the U.S. House, becoming the first Black woman to represent Virginia in Congress