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One grandfather's act of resilience in the Jim Crow South
WBUR Boston· 6 hours agoNyla Moxley's grandfather grew up in a segregated America and endured racism in the Jim Crow South....
Fact-checking Byron Donalds’ ‘Jim Crow’ comments on Black families, conservatism
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 7 days agoIn the South under Jim Crow, "most Black people could not vote," University of Pennsylvania...
Terrence Howard Says 'Jim Crow Laws of Mathematics' Hiding the Truth
TMZ· 5 days agoTerrence Howard firmly believes his non-traditional theories on math, gravity and science are the...
Rumor Says Black People Couldn't Buy Vanilla Ice Cream Under Jim Crow. Here's the Truth
Snopes via Yahoo News· 2 days agoBettmann/Getty Images A viral claim has made its way from literary and oral retellings to the...
Yuen: Memories of the Jim Crow South haunted a Minnesota man. Then the nightmares terrorized his...
Tribune via AOL· 1 day agoNightmares afflicted the father of Lee Hawkins Jr. and awoke his son, then just a little boy growing up in the St. Paul suburb of Maplewood. His dad would jostle out of his sleep screaming, ...
Willie Mays: Saying a final goodbye to baseball’s ‘Say hey kid’
United Press International via Yahoo Sports· 6 hours agoWillie Mays, who died Wednesday at age 93, was not only the greatest baseball player of the last 80...
Granderson: Praising the Jim Crow era? That’s a clear red flag
San Jose Mercury News· 4 days agoJim Crow was not the problem. Jim Crow was meant to be the solution. The problem was Rutherford B....
Unlikely Trio: Jim Crow, O.J. Simpson and Donald Trump | Connecticut Law Tribune
Law.com· 6 days agoFor decades, white persons accused of crimes against African-Americans in the Jim Crow south were...
Tyla Knows She’s Black, Guys. She Doesn’t Know Why People Say Otherwise
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIn South Africa, however, “Coloured” signifies that someone is of mixed ethnic descent, most often...
How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoCelebrating Black Independence Day Still, Juneteenth has persevered. Its observance waned through the years under the oppression of Jim Crow laws and...
