Jim Crow laws
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Beaches Provide Refuge for Blacks During Jim Crow Era
In the post-1940s Jim Crow era, many recreational water locales, including Ocean City, Maryland, and Virginia Beach, prohibited the inclusion…
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Lessons from Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges is an inspiring reminder that our entire nation owes a huge debt of gratitude not just to the…
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MORIAL: History Will Not Look Kindly on 21st-Century Jim Crow
In 2018, voters in at least eight states will face more stringent voting laws than they did in the last…
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AFRICA NOW: MLK Legacy Lives On in Africa
Today, schools, streets and children in Africa are named in Martin Luther King Jr.'s honor, and now more Africans and…
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Deconstructing Reconstruction in the Aftermath of Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights and Dallas
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) After Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Falcon Heights, Minnesota there was Dallas, Texas. After…
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Jim Crow-Era Shooting Revisited in New Documentary
JASON DEAREN, Associated Press LIVE OAK, Fla. (AP) — On a sticky hot Sunday in August 1952, a wealthy black…
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Obama’s One-Sided Responsibility Lecture
By Walter Fields NNPA Columnist Too often during the presidency of Barack Obama, the nation’s first African-American president has felt…
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The Jim Crow Impulse
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Arizona’s Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, after nearly a week of reading the political…
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Blacks Have More Reasons to be Fearful than Whites
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist In the years after enslavement, Southern Whites did all they could to return to…
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