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 ...

Democrats denounced the Senate filibuster as a racist relic of Jim Crow, now that they’re in the minority and Cory Booker ...

In the 1870s and ’80s, it was applied to anti-black laws and practices in the South. The phrase “Jim Crow law” appeared in print as early as 1892, in the New York Times.

So that’s where the “solution” came in. A set of segregationist laws, known as Jim Crow after a minstrel show character, were white Southerners’ best attempt to restore their former way of ...

Jim Crow was a time of brutal social and political oppression for African Americans. “Jim Crow laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. Named after a ...

As the 2025 legislative session draws near, hundreds of Louisiana prisoners remain in political limbo. But a new bill could provide them with relief.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Monday called the announcement of the election lawsuit dismissal by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi “a significant win for Georgia ...

Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said his previous theory that the Trump administration would enact “Jim Crow 2.0” is coming true. Clyburn joined CNN’s Brianna Keilar on Wednesday, and he was ...

Waties Waring, a southern white judge, showed when he issued unpopular rulings against segregation and Jim Crow laws despite the criticism and threats he knew he would receive from local political ...