Jim Crow was the system of state and local segregation laws, customs, and social norms that governed much of the South from roughly 1877 through the mid-1960s. Black Americans were segregated into to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration: HuffPost; Photo: Getty Images The Supreme Court's decision gutting the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais has ...

Far from continuing to advance racial equality, the Supreme Court and the Trump administration are actively dismantling it. While they are not advocating the outright racial apartheid of the Jim Crow ...

North Carolina’s prison system on Tuesday dropped its ban on a book about mass incarceration and will review other prohibited books after an objection from the state’s American Civil Liberties Union ...

The new Jim Crow Museum of racist imagery will open later this month, with opening days set for Sep. 30 and Oct. 1. The Jim Crow Museum is the nation’s largest publicly accessible collection of ...

Nobody really knows who Jim Crow was or whether he even existed, but his name and legacy are currently making a comeback. Crow first gained public attention in the 1830s, when a white minstrel-show ...

The Supreme Court’s decision gutting the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais has commenced the largest rollback of Black political representation since the end of Reconstruction and the ...