I thought Jim Crow was dead, but it seems to be making a comeback through policies designed to roll back progress.

The debate over Georgia's new voting law has been deeply depressing to watch for a number of reasons. The first is that it hasn't really been a debate so much as a lot of performative shouting from ...

To the editor: If the U.S. Constitution gives the right to vote to every citizen over 18 years of age, then states need to guarantee that every citizen can exercise that right. That means they must ...

Will Black voters continue to have an opportunity to elect representatives of their choice, or will decades of hard-won ...

Referendum Question 1 amounts to voter suppression, plain and simple. America has been down this disturbing road before.

As President Donald Trump’s administration continues to form and top officials are confirmed, questions remain about the future of a highly publicized and pending Biden administration lawsuit against ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) “The political philosophy of black nationalism only means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community. The time when white people can come ...

Lee Hawkins’ book shows exploring the connections between the past and present helps us understand the forces shaping our ...

Bill Clinton compares voter ID laws to Jim Crow: “There has never been in my lifetime, since we got rid of the poll tax and all the Jim Crow burdens on voting, the determined effort to limit the ...

Members of the Edward Livingston Historical Association recently explored the continuity of arguments prominent Southerners used, sometimes 100 years apart, to defend chattel slavery and Jim Crow ...