Beginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore entered--and forever transformed--American popular ...
In 2013, the artist and activist Fury Young read Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, and it changed his life. The watershed book illuminates how mass incarceration in 21st century America functions ...
At his news conference last Thursday, President Biden said of Georgia's new voting law, "It makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle." Jim Crow was not a person, but unlike most former presidents, he has a ...