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 Salon · Oct 26, 2022
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. Tribune News Service · Sep 22, 2022
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. Reason · Sep 8, 2022
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… St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Sep 6, 2022
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 Salon · Sep 6, 2022
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. Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 6, 2022
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. WEKU · Sep 4, 2022
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’ The Guardian - US · Aug 26, 2022
‘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. Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 21, 2022
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 · May 25, 2022
Zora Neale Hurston's Inconvenient Individualism The author of Their Eyes Were Watching God defies easy political categorization. Reason · May 22, 2022
Jane Crow The South has risen again. Anything that involves privacy is gone. Texas Observer · May 9, 2022
GOP governor vetoes bill to end Jim Crow Gov. Tate Reeves called felony disenfranchisement an "animating principle" of "every great republic" Salon · Apr 26, 2022
ITV Britain's Got Talent issues response to 'racism' claims over veteran performer The hit ITV talent programme returned over the weekend with more auditions Manchester Evening News · Apr 20, 2022
Salon · Mar 17, 2022 Georgia GOP pushes new "anti-voter bill" Georgia GOP passes yet another sweeping bill to restrict voting; Democrats compare it to Jim Crow suppression
The Independent UK · Feb 25, 2022 Museum begins honoring Black coachmen from the Jim Crow era The Black men who drove horse-drawn carriages through the streets of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia were both everywhere and invisible during the Jim Crow era
The Guardian - US · Feb 15, 2022 Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Very real risk’ US democracy won’t exist in 10 years Efforts by Republicans to restrict voting rights could result in return to Jim Crow era, says progressive in New Yorker interview
Al Jazeera · Feb 13, 2022 Louisiana ‘Jim Crow jury’ prisoner Brandon Jackson granted parole Jackson was among hundreds of Americans imprisoned on non-unanimous verdicts, which were ruled unconstitutional in 2020.
Tribune News Service · Jan 30, 2022 Amid ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ rhetoric, some GOP candidates of color thrive WASHINGTON — Wesley Hunt, who is running for the GOP nomination in Texas’ 38th District, hauled in more than $1 million in the most recent fundraising quarter and holds $1.5 million in the bank.
Roll Call · Jan 27, 2022 Amid ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ rhetoric, some GOP candidates of color thrive - Roll Call Wesley Hunt, a Black Republican candidate for an open House seat in Texas, raised more than $1 million in the fourth quarter.