I grew up in Louisiana during the Jim Crow era. After the Civil War, Black people began to gain power during Reconstruction. White Southern Democrats did not like this and began passing what was known ...

Lee Hawkins's book argues for expanding the reparations debate to include survivors of the Jim Crow era. The Jim Crow era subjected Black people to racial segregation, violence, and systemic ...

I’m a Leafs fan first and foremost. I’ve not kept that a secret, and I have never claimed to be some kind of unbiased member of the “media.” I’m just a guy in a toxic relationship with a hockey team ...

A historic Queen Anne Colonial home in Holly Springs faces demolition. Preservation efforts seek $800K to save this Jim Crow-era African American landmark. Doorify MLS AI-generated summary reviewed by ...

For years, the white, Queen Anne Colonial-style house at 421 Grigsby Ave. in Holly Springs has sat abandoned and neglected. It’s one of the last surviving structures from a once-thriving ...

Developers hope to convert the 111-year-old property at 2101 Gervais St. into housing and restore it back closer to its original appearance. Provided Google Maps The corner of Harden and Gervais ...

Krystal Uchem and Timothy Eric in Purlie Victorious at Main Street Theater. Credit: Photo by Ricornel Productions Purlie Victorious — its full title is Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp ...

During the Jim Crow crow era, Sister Clara Muhammad founded the first Muslim private school system. During the Jim Crow crow era, Sister Clara Muhammad founded the first Muslim private school system ...

TIFF: A frosty professor gets stuck in 1981 Poland after a junta declares martial law in Kasia Adamik’s gripping story of totalitarianism. The dead communist doesn’t live to regret underestimating ...

As Andy Warhol might have said if he’d been a little more specific with his pop cultural prophecies: “In the future, every famous character actor will be John Wick for 15 minutes.” Lesley Manville ...

In the essay collection “Our Fragile Freedoms,” Eric Foner wades again and again into the biggest debates surrounding human bondage in America. By Zaakir Tameez Zaakir Tameez is a legal scholar of the ...

At the height of the Jim Crow era, these destinations offered a sanctuary for Black folks facing daily oppression and segregation. An aerial view of Bruce's Beach, which, at one point, was one of the ...