ranging from dolls to advertisements and more. Laws that legalized the segregation and disenfranchisement of Black people were named “Jim Crow,” after a Black minstrel show character.

Qadir Parris layers images of a family’s past and present through underpainting; a separate story rests beneath.

In those first couple of chapters, where South of Midnight introduces Hazel's supernatural abilities as a Weaver, combat assumes the pace of a slow Southern drawl. The fights don't have much depth, ...

Her kit is an ethereal arsenal of beloved trinkets, like a darling childhood doll and a literal bottle ... Reconstruction, and Jim Crow into a palatable nothing, and nor does it reduce that ...

The 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina feels particularly heavy as it forces us to confront the culmination of memory, ...

My mother grew up in the very different world of the Jim Crow South, around the time Kenneth and Mamie Clark brought their white and black dolls to segregated classrooms. The African-American ...

The Court highlighted the racist underpinnings of non-unanimous verdicts, linking it to a Jim Crow practice dating from the 1870’s. White folks back then apparently didn’t have a problem with ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) - Stories from the public are being sought to complete research into the state’s history during the Jim Crow-era, when African-Americans used a “green book ...

Inspired by the Deep South setting of Ryan Coogler’s latest film, we look back on the history of popular music through the lens of Houston’s Black community in the early 20th century. Music ...

(Courtesy of Nebraska State Historical Society) LINCOLN — Stories from the public are being sought to complete research into the state’s history during the Jim Crow-era, when African-Americans ...