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Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers review: a display of ‘redemptive’ works

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…

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At 100, St. Paul WWII vet Gordon Kirk ‘still trying to be of assistance to others’

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

Pioneer Press

Mexico's help to American women who need abortions should inspire Canada

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.

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‘I cried for a long time’: Black hair stylist’s dream crushed by racist neighbor

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 Guardian - US

He was with Emmett Till the night he was murdered. The horror haunts him still

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.

WEKU

McClellan to become 1st Black woman to represent Virginia

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

The Independent UK

Let’s give thanks to the "Dilbert" guy

In a single YouTube rant, Scott Adams put the lie to reverse racism

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Trump just neutralized Ron DeSantis

Trump is smartly running against DeSantis from the right on cultural issues and from the left on the economy

Salon

NC Senate leader ready to remove Jim Crow-era literacy test from state constitution

RALEIGH, N.C. — The state’s top senator said Tuesday that a literacy test for voters “ought to be out of our constitution” and he’s ready to remove it.

Tribune News Service

What I tell my Black Jewish children about Kanye West, antisemitism and race

Claims of ‘Black antisemitism’ are a dangerous distraction. The truth is the fates of Black and Jewish Americans are linked

The Guardian - US

From DeFremery Park to the Garden: The Oakland roots of Boston Celtics greatness

A school, a park, and a home in Oakland California helped create a hotbed for Black excellence central to the Celtics' success.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Race, history and a reckoning in Georgia

One candidate was a man of unquestioned character. The other was a dangerous buffoon. It was very close. But why?

Salon

Past is present in Peniel Joseph’s ‘The Third Reconstruction’

"The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-first Century" by Peniel Joseph; Basic Books (288 pages, $27)

Tribune News Service

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says U.S. facing "environment of fascism" ahead of 2022 midterms

The New York congresswoman said voter intimidation at the polls "brings us back to Jim Crow."

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Salon

Arizona attack on voting: Ugly tradition

Armed goons are reportedly harassing Arizona voters — it's a new twist in the Grand Canyon State's nasty history

Tribune News Service

Tyler Perry goes back in time for his latest Netflix flick ‘A Jazzman’s Blues’

ATLANTA — In 1995, Tyler Perry was a broke, struggling screenwriter who would sneak into Alliance Theatre plays during intermission, entering with the smokers.

Reason

A New Study Suggests That Black Southerners' Access to Firearms Reduced Lynchings

The analysis reinforces the historical case for armed self-defense in response to racist violence.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: A Jim Crow law was designed to disenfranchise Blacks. A court just upheld it

What’s wrong with this picture? A federal appeals court in Mississippi, in recently considering whether to overturn an 1890 law that makes it almost impossible for ex-convicts to ever vote again, wrote that the law was “steeped in racism” from its very inception. Then that same court upheld the law…

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America is waking up: Is it too late?

Americans see the threat to democracy at last. But it's no time to celebrate: The Trumpists aren't beaten yet

Chicago Sun-Times

Black union pioneers honored on Labor Day

“Despite Jim Crow and the challenges that Black people faced, people who worked on the railroad had an opportunity to build a better life,” Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said during an event at the Pullman National Monument and State Historic Site.

WEKU

Historians advise the president. The problem? The scholars were all white.

In early August the White House invited an all-white group of historians to talk about threats to American democracy.

The Guardian - US

Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era felony voting law is constitutional, federal court rules

Law passed in 1890 was tailored ‘to exclude the Negro’ but appeals court says tweaks in 20th century ‘cleansed … discriminatory taint’

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Pullman Company Maids’ exhibit captures Black women’s work experience during Jim Crow

Long overshadowed by the porter men, the maids were smaller in number. Often they were the only Black female employee within a Pullman car.

Reason

If Georgia's Election Law Was Supposed To Suppress the Vote, It Sure Did a Bad Job

After bracing for a supposed return of Jim Crow, Georgia saw a major increase in early votes in this week's primaries.

Reason

Zora Neale Hurston's Inconvenient Individualism

The author of Their Eyes Were Watching God defies easy political categorization.

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