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One grandfather's act of resilience in the Jim Crow South
WBUR Boston· 8 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...
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...
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· 7 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....
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· 11 hours agoCelebrating Black Independence Day Still, Juneteenth has persevered. Its observance waned through the years under the oppression of Jim Crow laws and...
CLARENCE PAGE: So Jim Crow was a good period for Blacks in America?
Las Vegas Review-Journal· 6 days agoDevastating. But was he right? Different ears will hear his remarks through their varied...
