During tough times, protest songs can bring us together and spur us to action ...

Viper Room, VIP Records, the Troubadour, Whisky a Go Go, Capitol Records, Hollywood Forever Cemetery: Here's a guided tour ...

The deaths of U.S. citizens in Minneapolis and the violence ICE has perpetuated has revived a folk-music tradition from artists across genres ...

Booker T. Spicely challenged Jim Crow on a Durham bus and was shot in 1944. An all‑white jury acquitted driver Herman Lee Council after a brief 1944 trial. Durham museum, state markers honor Spicely; ...

ATLANTA — A new and emotional art exhibition at Spelman College is turning painful chapters of American history into powerful works of modern art. The exhibition, titled “Repossessions,” invites Black ...

'Project 2025 is Jim Crow 2.0.' Legendary South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn, the state’s only Democratic lawmaker, is speaking out on the state of politics under the Trump administration, ...

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I grew up in Louisiana during the Jim Crow era. After the Civil War, Black people began to gain power during Reconstruction. White Southern Democrats did not like this and began passing what was known ...

Lee Hawkins's book argues for expanding the reparations debate to include survivors of the Jim Crow era. The Jim Crow era subjected Black people to racial segregation, violence, and systemic ...

Editor’s note: This event has been canceled. Michelle Alexander, a civil rights activist and the author of “The New Jim Crow,” will speak at 7 p.m. Nov. 5 at the University Memorial Center’s Glenn ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A sign calling for the return of racial segregation laws was spotted over — and quickly removed from — Interstate 25 in Denver on Sunday. Denver officers ...

November 1939: The Rex Theatre in Leland, Mississippi, which was segregated under the Jim Crow laws. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 21 taking aim at diversity, equity, and ...