The Jim Crow era of America is riddled with stories — some told and many unspoken — of violations against the civil rights and basic humanity of Black people. One such story is that of Hattie ...

A Democratic leader who once likened the filibuster to Jim Crow policies that enforced racial segregation backtracked on ...

Franklin County is paying for civil rights tours for employees that include museums, live blues club music and a private drag ...

Mary DeBardelaben made a promise she’d find out how her grandmother died at the hands of lawmen who raided her rural Alabama home in 1945. Now she’s finally learning the whole truth.

My name is Vivian Latimer Tanniehill. I am a retired widow and a 30-year resident of Washington County. The election was this week, and because of my ...

Biden has had a history of divisive rhetoric in his presidency and political career from "back in chains" to his "garbage" ...

Eighty years ago, Black soldier Booker T. Spicely was shot and killed in Durham by a white bus driver. Playwrights Howard L.

Right-wing vigilantes have been in overdrive attempting to challenge the ballots of 2 million voters by Election Day.

Members of the last generation to live through the end of the Jim Crow laws are among voters in an upcoming presidential election roiled by racial and other divisions. They spoke to Reuters about ...

In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to ...

Those laws were copied in states across the South, sowing the seeds of the Jim Crow era and much of the structural racism ...

The laws respond to the history of police officers’ role in voter intimidation — especially intimidation of Black voters during the Jim Crow era. They also reflect concerns that voters who see ...