UNBELIEVABLE: 4 | History Defined

Juneteenth, Jim Crow and how the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons for Texas lawmakers trying to erase history from the classroom

The news was startling.

The Conversation · Jun 16, 2023

How America's Growing Diversity Weakens the Case for Racial Preferences in Education

Affirmative action becomes harder to defend when it entails discrimination against a variety of racial and ethnic minority groups.

Reason · Jun 13, 2023

Historic acquittal in Louisiana fuels fight to review 'Jim Crow' verdicts

Criminal justice advocates have struggled at the Louisiana Legislature as they seek legal relief for hundreds of people convicted of serious crimes by nonunanimous juries

The Independent UK · May 29, 2023

White woman whose accusations led to Emmett Till’s lynching in 1955 has died

Carolyn Bryant Donham was at the centre of Till’s murder, underscoring a brutal legacy of Jim Crow-era racist violence

The Independent UK · Apr 27, 2023

Harlan Crow: There’s nothing wrong with my friendship with Clarence Thomas

DALLAS — Harlan Crow believes he and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are the victims of a “political hit job.”

Tribune News Service · Apr 17, 2023

House where King planned Alabama marches moving to Michigan

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches has been sold to a historical museum in Michigan and will be moved to a site near Detroit for preservation

The Independent UK · Apr 17, 2023

Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers review: a display of ‘redemptive’ works

It took both ingenuity and courage for African Americans to become artists in the Jim Crow-era Deep South, said Maya Jaggi in the FT. The region’s black inhabitants typically received no education beyond primary level and were limited to low-paid jobs, making materials like oil paint all but unaffordable. Since…

The Week · Apr 7, 2023

At 100, St. Paul WWII vet Gordon Kirk ‘still trying to be of assistance to others’

ST. PAUL, Minn. — There were four generations of Gordon Kirks at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in St. Paul on Sunday morning.

Pioneer Press · Mar 28, 2023

Mexico's help to American women who need abortions should inspire Canada

When a draft of an upcoming United States Supreme Court decision curtailing legal abortion access in the U.S. leaked in May 2022, Karina Gould, Canada’s minister of families, children and social development, declared that Americans seeking abortions would be welcomed north of the border.

The Conversation · Mar 23, 2023

‘I cried for a long time’: Black hair stylist’s dream crushed by racist neighbor

Angel Pittman says her dream to create a mobile hair salon was thwarted when a neighbor harassed her with racist comments and vandalized her buses

The Guardian - US · Mar 21, 2023