Jim crow

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in the landmark...

Mr. T. Rice as the original Jim Crow

The legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., like most mortals, evokes a certain ambivalence regarding what should be celebrated and what should be rightly critiqued. There are certainly parts of his life and thinking that warrant correction, rebuke, and challenge, but this will be true of all us if w

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The exhibition of Gordon Parks’ work in London aims to reposition him as more than a photojournalist, and instead as an artist against social injustice

Jim Crow laws were state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. Enacted after the Civil War, the laws denied equal opportunity to Black citizens.