In 1908, journalist Ray Stannard Baker observed that "no other point of race contact is so much and so bitterly discussed among Negroes as the Jim Crow car." As bus travel became widespread in the ...

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“When we say that America has a history of systemic racism, we mean that from slavery, Jim Crow laws, lynchings, and policing, our institutions have done violence to black Americans ...

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Over the last week, Mississippi and Florida have offered modern-day examples of Jim Crow-era voter suppression that endures to this day — enacted by state legislatures, enabled by governors with ...

“If given the chance, he will cause more harm than good as he seeks to return us to the days of Jim Crow,” she warned. As ESSENCE has previously reported, Project 2025 is a detailed plan led ...

Featuring a powerful cast including Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson, the film tells the harrowing story of two Black boys navigating the brutal realities of a reform school in the Jim Crow South ...

In 1908, journalist Ray Stannard Baker observed that "no other point of race contact is so much and so bitterly discussed among Negroes as the Jim Crow car." As bus travel became widespread in the ...