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Tyler Perry goes back in time for his latest Netflix flick ‘A Jazzman’s Blues’

ATLANTA — In 1995, Tyler Perry was a broke, struggling screenwriter who would sneak into Alliance Theatre plays during intermission, entering with the smokers.

Tribune News Service · Sep 22, 2022

A New Study Suggests That Black Southerners' Access to Firearms Reduced Lynchings

The analysis reinforces the historical case for armed self-defense in response to racist violence.

Reason · Sep 8, 2022

Editorial: A Jim Crow law was designed to disenfranchise Blacks. A court just upheld it

What’s wrong with this picture? A federal appeals court in Mississippi, in recently considering whether to overturn an 1890 law that makes it almost impossible for ex-convicts to ever vote again, wrote that the law was “steeped in racism” from its very inception. Then that same court upheld the law…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Sep 6, 2022

‘Pullman Company Maids’ exhibit captures Black women’s work experience during Jim Crow

Long overshadowed by the porter men, the maids were smaller in number. Often they were the only Black female employee within a Pullman car.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 21, 2022

If Georgia's Election Law Was Supposed To Suppress the Vote, It Sure Did a Bad Job

After bracing for a supposed return of Jim Crow, Georgia saw a major increase in early votes in this week's primaries.

Reason · May 25, 2022

Zora Neale Hurston's Inconvenient Individualism

The author of Their Eyes Were Watching God defies easy political categorization.

Reason · May 22, 2022

Jane Crow

The South has risen again. Anything that involves privacy is gone.

Texas Observer · May 9, 2022

GOP governor vetoes bill to end Jim Crow

Gov. Tate Reeves called felony disenfranchisement an "animating principle" of "every great republic"

Salon · Apr 26, 2022

ITV Britain's Got Talent issues response to 'racism' claims over veteran performer

The hit ITV talent programme returned over the weekend with more auditions

Manchester Evening News · Apr 20, 2022

Georgia GOP pushes new "anti-voter bill"

Georgia GOP passes yet another sweeping bill to restrict voting; Democrats compare it to Jim Crow suppression

Salon · Mar 17, 2022