By weakening the Voting Rights Act, the court’s majority has now restored power to the conservative white establishment.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision effectively endorsing gerrymanders that disenfranchise Black voters, an outbreak ...

We've all seen those infamous images from the early-20th century South that serve as a harrowing reminder of the Jim Crow era ...

The federal government is carrying forward a white nationalist backlash to the mass uprisings that took place in 2020.

The Roberts Court has proven — pervasively, repeatedly, stunningly – its existential opposition to constitutional democracy ...

During the Reconstruction period of 1865–1877, federal law provided civil rights protection in the U.S. South for freedmen – the African Americans who had formerly been slaves. In the 1870s, White ...

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A reader argues that the Supreme Court's actions and Senator Marsha Blackburn's agenda are ushering in a 'new Jim Crow era' ...

Last week, in a six-to-three ruling along ideological lines, the Supreme Court dealt a major blow to the Voting Rights Act of ...

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century beginning in ...

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — who eagerly describes herself as a prosecutor running against “felon” Donald Trump — likened law enforcement in America to lynching and Jim Crow ...

Jim Crow was not the problem. Jim Crow was meant to be the solution. The problem was Rutherford B. Hayes winning the electoral college but losing the popular vote in 1876. To get over the hump — there ...