The Latest Breaking News from Jim Crow

In May 2023, renowned Black American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates spent ten days in the West Bank and Israel, where he spent half his time with Breaking the Silence, a group of former Israeli soldiers who now oppose the occupation.

Extracurricular classes teach ‘the majesty and value of Black history’ from the origins of Africa to Jim Crow policies

When I tell Israelis that American students think they are like South Africa, they are shocked.

Every year on 16 June, South Africa commemorates the revolt of black school children against the inferior “bantu education” system on that day in 1976. The horror of police shooting and killing unarmed children caused a global uproar. Historian Rico Devara Chapman’s research interests include a focus on the African…

Florida Rep. Byron Donalds faces backlash for comments on Black families during Jim Crow, sparking debate on race and politics.

Delroy Lindo joins Michael B. Jordan in a supernatural horror thriller set in the Jim Crow-era South. Warner Bros. secures rights for the film.

Georgia primary today shines a light on Draconian measures to ensure Republican victories at the ballot box.

The director of "13th" connects Isabel Wilkerson's story to the vast thesis of her acclaimed 2020 non-fiction book

Journalist Thomas Ricks on why Americans have been "given a flat narrow story" of the fight for democracy in the US

Working-class white former Confederates joined Black families to save free public schools that oligarchs were trying to eliminate. If they could come together then, what’s stopping Americans from uniting now?

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