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One grandfather's act of resilience in the Jim Crow South
WBUR Boston· 9 hours agoNyla Moxley's grandfather grew up in a segregated America and endured racism in the Jim Crow South....
Rumor Says Black People Couldn't Buy Vanilla Ice Cream Under Jim Crow. Here's the Truth
Snopes via Yahoo News· 3 days agoBettmann/Getty Images A viral claim has made its way from literary and oral retellings to the...
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...
After Willie Mays' death, Rickwood Field game takes on renewed significance
CBS News via Yahoo Sports· 53 minutes agoWillie Mays began his professional baseball career with the Birmingham Black Barons, who barnstormed...
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...
Willie Mays: Saying a final goodbye to baseball’s ‘Say hey kid’
United Press International via Yahoo Sports· 9 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· 5 days agoJim Crow was not the problem. Jim Crow was meant to be the solution. The problem was Rutherford B....
Yuen: Memories of the Jim Crow South haunted a Minnesota man. Then the nightmares terrorized his...
Tribune via AOL· 2 days 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, ...
Minneapolis residents celebrate Juneteenth with annual 'Soul of the Southside' festival
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 29 minutes agoFour years ago, the south Minneapolis neighborhood was the charred epicenter of Minnesota's racial...
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...